Richard Dreyfuss | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What is the opening banter and how do Bill Maher and Richard Dreyfuss introduce the show?
How are ya?
How are ya?
Well, it's
been a long time. Yeah. Do you remember the
show we did together? Which one? The Funny You Don't Look Two Hundred? Or My Doing Your Show? Nineteen Eighty Seven.
Yeah.
Your show about the Constitution. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen it at all? I saw it in nineteen eighty seven. I mean since then, no. Have you? Yeah, shit. A lot. Yeah, y what are you like Norman Desmond? You're running it in your library every night?
I'm
ready.
I'm ready for my club shop. But no, I I'm it there's a whole story about that story.
Well uh people don't know what we're talking about, so I'm gonna tell 'em like uh in the twentieth anniversary of the Constitution, which of course was seventeen eighty seven, um kid I mean kids that they don't even know seventeen seventy six, but kids out there, that's when America declared its independence, but it took an eleven more years before we had a Constitution and uh Richard wanted to do a show celebrating that because the Constitution is kinda a big deal. And for some reason Uh me, a young kid up and coming comic new to Hollywood, was uh I can't even remember what I did in that show. I remember it was you were a huge movie star who wanted to do a show about the Constitution, and I was a young comic who would do anything.
So I was like thrilled beyond. The show opens.
with you. Really? And it is carried for the first fifteen minutes maybe. Uh by you and Jeff's Jeff uh Jeff Tamber. Who's that? Oh
Jeffrey Tambor?
How did the idea for a Constitution‑themed show originate and what was the early collaboration like?
Yeah. Was in that? Holy crow. I never realized how much of this of the uh show itself you don't know about. Because they they I said to I was being sued I was not being sued. I was suing them or I was suing who? Um Disney. Disney. Yeah. What date do you? We said to them, uh they called us first and said. We know that we're gonna be talking about owing Richard a something in and around h some hundreds of thousands of dollars. And on that following Monday morning They called the same lady called and said Okay, so uh We're gonna start uh With us knowing that we owed owe you at least five thousand dollars. For what? What did we do? I still don't understand the gist of this story. Well what did we do wrong? I did eleven films for them.
Okay, but now they're suing you. No no no. I was gonna sue them. And it was the same thing that always happens with When you do eleven films, you know, they just to run you through the bringer. Right.
Yeah, you have to s okay, now I see. Okay. So you have to sue people in Hollywood, that is true, to get your money. They they do have ways of even movies, was it uh Coming to America, some movie like that, which made $125 million, which at the time was, you know, w today would be like, I don't know, uh closer to a billion. It is a giant hit. And they somehow found a way to hide all the money. Right. Well, like, well, we didn't really make And
someone paid for your yacht.
Yeah. But that's how you know you've really made it, is when you have to sue for your money. I mean, until then you're just a you're just a schnorer. You know, you're just you're so it's good that you uh had that. Long stretch where you were top dog and got to sue the studios. By the way, who hasn't had a beef with Disney? They fired me in 2001. I was shocked that a show called Politically Incorrect could stay on a Disney property for s almost six years. That to me was it was like the Roman. Empire, it's not that it fell, it's like how long it lasted. Yeah. So I didn't I understood what the where they were coming from and you know, I I never ever took any of those corporate feuds or made a corporate food.
I knew that a a lot of the corporate heads at the time didn't like me. And you know what? They weren't completely wrong. I was like 40 and still like, you know, I don't know. They wanted me to be married and, you know, they are much more comfortable with that type. Right. They didn't like seeing pictures of me out at nightclubs at four in the morning. It's you know, because I was doing a show that was like, you know, political political and not issues and I mean people took it seriously.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and how do Bill Maher and Richard Dreyfuss introduce the show?
0:01–1:42
2
How did the idea for a Constitution‑themed show originate and what was the early collaboration like?
1:42–4:56
3
Why did Richard Dreyfuss claim Disney sued him and what was the outcome?
4:56–15:25
4
How does the conversation connect the Me Too movement to early Hollywood scandals?
15:25–41:28
5
Why did Richard turn down the role in Jaws twice and later regret it?
41:28–48:41
6
What bizarre stories do they share about childhood masturbation and sexual fantasies?
48:41–1:01:13