James L. Brooks

So that was just...

God bless it.

You know, just, just landing in your lap.

And then some of them, when they got off work, they were still hanging around.

They didn't know why they were hanging around.

And then this guy came in and all the others, the article had been about, they all wanted to be something else.

And when I asked him and he was charismatic, you could see the buzz when he came in and he says, me, I want to be a cab driver.

That became what made our hero, a hero.

It's a famous audition.

Oh, it is?

Because we were looking and looking and looking.

If you know the show, you know the character.

For his audition, he came in and the first thing he did was throw the script on the floor and say, who wrote this shit?

And we fell on the floor and he was the guy.

It's hard to explain a unique guy for people to imagine what he was.

But I went to a club where he was performing and I'm waiting to see him.

And there's this awful comic.

who's on stage, not only unfunny, but vile and insulting people in the audience.

Is his name Tony?

Tony Clifton.