Christopher Titus

Philip is Rob Schneider or Rob Schneider. Philip is and was a dear, dear friend of mine. And Philip was one of these in between dudes, because I knew that there were guys from the old neighborhood. I knew growing up in North Hollywood, the Rays and the Chris's and the Donnie's and all the guys I grew up with. And then there's the newer show busy friends group.

sort of well i was about to say jimmy but i wasn't really in show business when i met jimmy but they're the guys i know that are in showbiz and then there's the old school whatever philip the juggler he's the guy whose wedding i went to and his best man shook everyone down for the money he bought paid for for the for the um bachelor party and it's a long story but

Philip was this really sweet guy and a really sweet soul and he lived out here. He went off and opened for Andy Williams. He was a juggler. He was almost vaudevillian. He would get up on stage on a unicycle and he did comedy. He did the comedy juggling and he'd get the machetes. It's crazy to see the guy up on a unicycle up on stage juggling machetes. He was not really a comedian.

He was just a guy who people liked, and he made them smile, and he made a nice living. But he wasn't a celebrity, he was a performer.

He went off to Branson, Missouri to open for Andy Williams at the Andy Williams Theatre. He made good money and he had a great life. He's how he knew. We were talking about cruising the other day. He'd go out on these cruises for eight days and have to work like two days. I was always like, oh man, oh man, because I wasn't in show business when I met Philip. But Philip was always great to me.

And he's always like, you're super funny, you're gonna be fine. And I was just a carpenter the whole time. And he'd get these gigs, like Andy Williams would go to Palm Springs and he'd invite me out and we'd stay at La Quinta, you know, and I'd be backstage drinking free Heinekens and eating free food, you know, and staying at La Quinta. And he went...

One time he was booked at the Caesars in Tahoe and I flew out there and then we drove back through Yosemite and just listened to the doors the entire time. They stretch a highway. By the way, if anyone hasn't done it, they stretch a highway from Tahoe.

Through Yosemite is un-fucking-believable, and when you're hearing This is the End playing in Phillips Toyota, it is mind-numbing. Anyway, I...

Philip, I hadn't seen in a while. He came out and stayed. Him and his wife came out and stayed with me. Been almost eight or ten years now, and I had lost contact with him. And I thought he was just in Branson doing his thing. And I got an email from somebody who knew them and knew me and said his wife was trying to contact me, but didn't have a new contact for me and blah, blah, blah.

So I called her the day before yesterday. Her name is Susan, and that was his sort of, I don't want to say new bride, but they married 15 years ago. And she said, well, Philip's ill, and Philip has this sort of dementia, and Philip has maybe Alzheimer's or dementia or something. No, Philip is right at 10 years older than I am, but Philip...

He were always in great shape, always just had these great jeans. He was just one of these guys who looked good in his underpants, because I bunked with him enough to see him in his underpants. He was one of these guys that was just good looking. He was symmetrical, well built. The guy rode a unicycle and juggled machetes, for Christ's sake. I'd heard through a couple of emails that he was having a hard time and

Hänellä oli vaikeuksia dementiaan ja niin edelleen. Hän ei tehnyt rikkoja, hän ei ollut nukkujaan. Hän oli sosiaalinen nukkujaan, mutta hänellä ei ollut kokoajan traumaa tai muuta. Kutsuin häntä, Susanin, ja sanoin, että mitä Philipin kanssa tapahtuu? Hän sanoi, että hän on nyt kotona. Hän elää asiantuntemukseen.

Ja sanoin, että ei. Joten aloitin miettimään, että en usko, että hän muistaa minua. Mutta ehkä minun pitäisi mennä katsomaan hänet. Hän on Kansan kaupungissa. Ja saa kuvia ja sitoo hänen kanssaan. Ja hän ei voi puhua. Hän ei voi puhua. Hän ei voi huolehtia itseään. Hän ei voi puhua itseään. Hän ei voi mennä kylmään. Hän ei voi.

Onko hän tällä hetkellä?

She's trying to keep it together. She's younger.

Olen pahoillani. Hän... Tiedän, miten tehdä tätä. Hän oli juuri sellainen... Hän oli juuri sellainen henkilö, joka oli koko elämä. En nähnyt häntä, tiedätkö? Kuinka kauan sitten puhuttiin häntä? Hän oli ylös kotona. Me olimme syödä sushia. Hän meni kruisiin ja soitti ja teki kaikkea. Minun täytyy muuttaa jotain muuta.

Let it turn. And now it's like, he doesn't talk, he doesn't walk, he doesn't do anything. He's, you know, he's a vegetable, basically. And I said, well, what's the deal? Well, he's supposed to be dead, but now they think maybe he's going to go on, but there's no long-term anything. He's just no... He wouldn't be able to communicate in his...

Hänen kaverinsa on niin mahtava. Minä olin, että wow, koska hän pitäisi huolehtia häntä. Ja hän sanoi, että olen vain kiitollinen for the years that we had. Hän ei ole itkeä, hän ei ole itkeä, hän ei ole kärsinyt, tiedät, Jumala tai joku muu. Hän on vain niin kiitollinen, että hän tuli elämässäni.

I just thought, God, what a woman. It made me think.

Meidän kaikki pitäisi käyttää sitä. Hän sanoi, että meillä oli 15 eri vuotta yhdessä. En sijoita sitä mitenkään. Kiitos Jumalalle, että hän tuli elämässäni. Ja siinä olin. Minä yritin mennä ulos ja katsoa hänet. Hän ei tietenkään tunne minua. Ja hän ei voi kommunikoida.