Crazy with a Z
Last Wednesday, Liza Minnelli appeared on Larry King Live. I know: who cares, right? I mention it not as a disciple of Liza or a fan of musical theater (I couldn't be further from either), but as someone who loves a good trainwreck. Which is what she offered, sorta.
I distilled the hour-long interview down to its most essential elements: Liza's various, throaty and broad outbursts and fits of laughter. What follows is my highlights reel of her pearls of nonsense, uploaded to YouTube for your viewing (and my bandwidth) ease. Can you really resist the promise of nonsense on a Monday?
Because this one-minute-37-second video is composed of 18 different clips, there's a lot of context raping. Her reactions and outbursts might not make sense, but don't worry -- they didn't really in the first place.
My favorite parts are "I work with retarded children" and when she cracks up at the guy when he says that he's a musical-theater major.
I'm not saying she's drunk, but she's real nice.
her cackle makes my skin crawl. great job on the editing. haha.
Posted by: john | March 20, 2006 at 12:11 PM
Yowsers! She sounds like she has a furball the size of Winston in her throat. Larry King looks so uncomfortably disarmed by her cackling! But truth be told, Liza's a true "theatre person," a special breed of people to whom you can't really apply normal rules of conduct. They're just not from this planet.
Posted by: cinderelli | March 20, 2006 at 12:16 PM
You are a fucking genius and I worship you. Thank You for that. I watched that interview- how weird was it when someone asked her if she was a christian? So hilarious.
Posted by: Andy Butler | March 20, 2006 at 12:32 PM
but in all fairness Rich, she's a sexagenarian!!!. So this interview is merely the following equation: standard famous since birth lunacy + old age. poor dear.
still. hilarious nonsequitors therein. thanks. The only thing that woulda made this better is to mix in that even more trainwrecky footage from the delusional Inside the Actors Studio
hee.
Posted by: Nathaniel R | March 20, 2006 at 12:49 PM
i couldn't watch more than a few minutes at a time (i flipped over to it while Idol was at commercial) and between Liza and Paula Abdul, i have been turned off of painkillers forever.
Posted by: whatwouldjanicedickinsondo | March 20, 2006 at 12:58 PM
the editing on that was pure genius, and you're right I saw the entire interview when it aired, she didn't really make any more sense in its proper context
Posted by: blakjaxx | March 20, 2006 at 01:57 PM
I used to not have an inkling of respect for the divas of queens past. Eventually I sat an old queen down and said, "Girl. Whassadeely on Liza and Judy and Barbra and all that." And now I give full props to Judy and Liza. But not Barbra. Because blondes can never truly be friends.
Posted by: mo | March 20, 2006 at 02:20 PM
- OH MY GOD!!! It sounds like there are a bunch of midget clowns in her mouth fighting to get out, either that or she is Satan's daughter with that laugh.
Posted by: Cornelius | March 20, 2006 at 02:34 PM
i think she's kinda cute. especially after her stint on arrested development. i'd totally let her get me drunk and marry me.
Posted by: jeremy | March 20, 2006 at 02:44 PM
That was me on Saturday night!
Posted by: bryce | March 20, 2006 at 03:04 PM
She's actually a pretty sexy woman. Imagine her laughing while she's sucking your cock.
Posted by: Brandon | March 20, 2006 at 03:06 PM
it is literally like she changes into a different person when she starts her outbursts!! Someone who has smoked for 100 years, but definitely someone else!
Posted by: duane | March 20, 2006 at 03:25 PM
rich you always know the right type of "personality" to blog about. I totally feel you on a good trainwreck. Thanks for the laugh. I have a job that is kinda hard to explain to most people, I think liza explains it best - I work with retarded children!
Posted by: onenami1lion | March 20, 2006 at 04:38 PM
That was funny and laugh straight through, but onenami1lion's comment just cracked me up!
Posted by: Mika | March 20, 2006 at 04:58 PM
Holy.crap.
trainwreck is like the understatement of the year.
I can totally sympathize with Poor Larry's forced laughter.
Awesome thanks!
Posted by: ceece | March 20, 2006 at 04:59 PM
Larry King is bonkers.
Liza is just Liza.
What am I most grateful for?
You, Rich! (And the being alive thing)
Posted by: spazmo | March 20, 2006 at 06:20 PM
Why is this filed under Dumbness
Posted by: BigFriend | March 20, 2006 at 06:39 PM
I love how she almost spit her drink out when she started laughing! that was too funny. :) i love your editing.
Posted by: jas26 | March 20, 2006 at 06:51 PM
Rich, I'm so glad that a girl can count on you to brighten an otherwise dull weekday with psychosis-riddled laughter montages. My thanks.
Posted by: Sarah D. | March 20, 2006 at 07:02 PM
Oh, that Liza. She's like a wacky, smokey aunt who visits once a year and makes you laugh, whether she means to or not. This megamix is wonderful.
Posted by: JH | March 20, 2006 at 07:45 PM
To quote Sandra Bernhard, "It's so easy to dog Liza, but listen, Liza is a LEGEND." So just get off her spangeld capri slacks and let her be, damnit.
Posted by: Greg | March 20, 2006 at 08:15 PM
I have now watched this 1000 times and I am STILL laughing out loud. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Posted by: Nelson | March 20, 2006 at 11:20 PM
i'm so fucking glad you watched that, too. was waiting for someone else to notice. i feel for her, though! she kinda' rocks. you gotta admit.
Posted by: mil | March 21, 2006 at 04:15 AM
ohmigod, how funny was that?? don't know too much about her, but has heard she's crazes, and it's proven in this small amount of edited footage...that cackle was gold, sounded just like an old lady who's smoked all of her life and is a few cigs short of an oxygen tank!!
and my mom worked with "retarded" children, but she never called them that :$
Posted by: Mara | March 21, 2006 at 04:46 AM
"You've made 60 the new 40"
What's that then? 60 Uppers? Whiskeys? Brow lifts?
Posted by: E | March 21, 2006 at 06:36 AM
OMG I watched this the other night. She was out of control on something. AND she must have called Larry 4 different names! TOO FUNNY
Posted by: Carissa | March 21, 2006 at 08:37 AM
wow you're quite brilliant i would really appreciate it if we could be best friends. thank you.
Posted by: raymi | March 21, 2006 at 08:55 AM
This video's, like, everywhere now. It's on DListed, it's on A Socialite's Life...wow.
Posted by: Penny Woods | March 21, 2006 at 09:18 AM
Every gay man's vision of the perfect mother.
Posted by: Sean A White | March 21, 2006 at 09:45 AM
It's almost like she' playing drunk...
Buuuut I doubt it.
What a gem.
By the way, it's not "jitarded children," it's "retarded."
Posted by: eliot | March 21, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Upload it to Google Video! It's astounding and I've got to have it with me at all times on my iPod. Oh please! Upload it to Google Video!!!
It is TOO PERFECT.
Posted by: Curtis | March 21, 2006 at 11:20 AM
OH MY GOD!!. THAT WAS TOTALLY FRIGHTING! SHE NEEDS TO JUST NOT DO INTERVIEWS ANYMORE. I THINK SHE NEEDS A NEW PUBLISIST, ONE THAT KNOWS TO NEVER PUT A HIGH CELEBRITY ON LIVE TV!!! BUT ON A HIGH NOTE, SHE DOES LOOK GREAT FOR HER AGE. HER DOCTORS SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF THEMSELVES.
Posted by: jamie | March 21, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Oh my God! I am laughing so hard I'm crying. This is the most hilarious thing I've seen in a long time. Thank you. I love your sick sense of humor.
Posted by: liz | March 21, 2006 at 01:12 PM
Yea, you made Gawker! You're so my favorite, this makes me happy.
Posted by: | March 21, 2006 at 02:05 PM
My favorite part is right in the middle, when she says "Larry...no!"
Posted by: harpy | March 21, 2006 at 02:51 PM
that is hilarious....is there a way to save it?
Posted by: H | March 21, 2006 at 03:41 PM
Mother fucking Larry King, man. He's just as ceraazy as she is, but just not as funny about it.
I'm laughing so hard at this.
I love a little more each time I stop by here.
Posted by: Y | March 21, 2006 at 05:32 PM
I had to put together a video of her rehearsal footage for a benefit at Jazz at Lincoln Center and it rivals this compilation. I don't know what she's on, but bitch forgot the lyrics to New York, New York. It was one of the greatest things I have ever seen caught on tape.
Posted by: Tootie | March 21, 2006 at 05:49 PM
My god Liza, laughing at everything isn't an excuse!
Posted by: Feebs | March 21, 2006 at 07:17 PM
This is solid gold shit. I laughed so hard I saw stars. You are genius, man. Pure 100% genius.
Posted by: Blair | March 21, 2006 at 08:57 PM
I am sitting in my apt. alone after the day from hell laughing out loud. Thank you for that.
Posted by: Ricky | March 21, 2006 at 11:21 PM
Something is so very wrong with her. Laughing at the musical theatre major was too much!
Posted by: a. | March 22, 2006 at 01:24 AM
Great editing!
There's only one Liza- she's like her mother when her mother told stories, smoked and drank too much white wine while holding court with a bunch of us boys.
Posted by: chuckie | March 22, 2006 at 09:06 AM
Okay - been reading you for over a year now & never posted comments (shameful on my part). Honestly, your posts are fucking brilliant! Snarky, insightful, biting & funny all wrapped into one. After busting a gut laughing over the liza montage...it was time to acknowledge your righteousness! I'm highly anticipating your spot on evaluation of ANTM eps...Jade is the antichrist & Winston rocks!!!!
Posted by: soulgrrl | March 22, 2006 at 10:45 AM
BRILLIANT!!! She is almost a little disturbing but I loved every second watching that-I'm crying I laughed so hard!
Posted by: Jim | March 22, 2006 at 07:46 PM
Did anyone ever see the movie Arthur (she was in it)? She reminds me of Dudley Moore's character with the maniacal drunken laughter....
Posted by: Suzi | March 22, 2006 at 09:01 PM
This was really funny! I'm not really a Liza fan, don't know much about her, but she does look a little loopy here. Larry looked like he was SO over her. He's a trooper.
Posted by: Quel | March 23, 2006 at 12:11 AM
i really wish this included some of the moments where she randomly punctuated her sentences with "i love you larry". she'd basically be like "i walk my dog, i love you larry" it was so weird.
Posted by: edward | March 23, 2006 at 01:44 AM
the best part was after the guy said that he was a theater student at the university of Arizona, and then she laughed and says 'yes; and I bought it.'
LMAO! I'm at work right now! you're going to get me in trouble XD
Posted by: Mr. Prince | March 23, 2006 at 11:58 AM
Larry is much worse, he looks like the farking Cryptkeeper. Liza is a LEGEND.
Posted by: Judy | March 23, 2006 at 12:58 PM
Is anyone else getting a Mike Meyers vibe?!?!
Posted by: Mo | March 23, 2006 at 05:07 PM
my favorite part is when si turns and says "No she didn't!" the pitch on her voice is so cool. And yes, she is like a drag liza minelli impersonator played by mike myers or sth! so bizarre. I love her
Posted by: gonzalo | March 23, 2006 at 09:42 PM
Dear Judy never left us, did she? Ah, yeah, nothing like a drunken, psychotic fag hag with a camera and a mic to generate great TV...
Posted by: Paul Linde | March 24, 2006 at 12:56 PM
I looked up the word "jitarded" in the dictionary. It's not even an actual word.
Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.
Posted by: Grphdesi23 | March 24, 2006 at 05:35 PM
How do I play this? I just get det play icon in the senter of the little screen, but nothing hapens when i clik it
Posted by: bomle | March 28, 2006 at 04:57 AM
Hmmm. strange..
Posted by: bomle | March 28, 2006 at 05:56 AM
I saw it that B%^%H is crazy lol lol lol lol
Posted by: Eric | March 29, 2006 at 11:16 AM
I found myself keep asking the question, why, why, why? And then I realized it's cause Liza with a z goes zzz not sssssssssssssssssssssss...makes me so happy I quit smoking. Certainly has her own little world, huh?
Posted by: Fred | March 29, 2006 at 01:33 PM
Well, perhaps the marriage to David Gest didn't work out, but you have to admit, she looked and ACTED so much better at the time! S A D !
Posted by: Bretn | March 31, 2006 at 06:28 AM
By the way, as far as her not looking 60, well, first of all, she DOES have about 10 pounds of make-up on her face and always has, and if you've ever seen any of the cover photos in the past from the National Enquirer, you better believe that she DOES look 60 -- every bit of it!!
Posted by: Steve | April 01, 2006 at 05:37 AM
Correction! Make that, being on the cover of the National Enquirer WITHOUT any make-up on whatsoever!
Posted by: Steve | April 01, 2006 at 05:39 AM
...and the Emmy award for best comedic performance NOT done by a well rehearsed drag queen who apparently previously was the Marlboro spokesman. goes to... Liza with a szlur!
Posted by: MeatMe CT | April 05, 2006 at 12:50 AM
SHARE THE WHOLE INTERVIEW. I MISSED IT.
THANKS
Posted by: Gonçalo | April 08, 2006 at 01:40 AM
She seems just like my mother the smoking,drinking all around ditzy and glitzy she is the perfect woman. god she is hot
Posted by: Devon | April 08, 2006 at 11:05 PM
Liza ur one crazy lady, Now im going to always be ''TOGETHER'' with this clip on my I-POD we need more women like liza in the world. I luv her so dang much she is pure brilliance also i had to write a report on my hero it was Liza
Posted by: Devon | April 08, 2006 at 11:52 PM
I'M sick and tired off people making fun of Liza she is the kick in whiskey. I love the cheeky girl. has any one seen the duet with liza and judy singing at the paladium liza ur voice is golden I also love her makeup
Posted by: Devon | April 08, 2006 at 11:56 PM
They say imperfection adds depth.
Posted by: bc | April 09, 2006 at 02:53 PM
If you think she sounds bad here check out her recent singing voice!
Myles x
http://rankandbile.blogspot.com/2006/03/liza-with-z-hits-sixty-with-s.html
Posted by: Myles | April 10, 2006 at 04:05 AM
I love Liza but did you notice how she kinda talks through the right side of her mouth?
Im surprised that she beat DAVID GUEST and not the other way around. Did you hear the joke they made about her? and rosie o'donell?
Rosie O'Donell will get a sex change and marry Liza Minelli's husband and beat him
Posted by: Liza's Consience | April 23, 2006 at 10:16 PM
Love Liza. Loved the edited clips. She is interesting in way no other entertainer is. She has the stuff that makes a person go back to over to see what she is up to next. I somehow wander if she is sad under all of that laughing. She can still sing. saw her in summer of 2005, she was great.
Posted by: MH | April 27, 2006 at 04:20 PM
"Narf, Poit, Zort, Egad"
(goes with Bleep, zorp, foozle)
Posted by: | May 03, 2006 at 05:02 PM
Brilliant, just brilliant. Can't help but love the fact that she's so over everything. Far more interesting that the freaky host, Larry King? Nasty,urgh.
Please, i would love to go on a worldwide show drunk and laugh at everything and everyone, why not.
She's got nothign to prove, quite refreshing.
Posted by: Douglas | May 03, 2006 at 06:16 PM
Wouldn't have her any other way.
Posted by: Say What? | May 03, 2006 at 10:50 PM
People who don't like Liza and say evil things about her are sick...I really feel sorry for people who don't know the brilliant
person, the great theatrical tradition...
Why don't you go concentrate on Bush's War.
That's probably your speed.....
Sick bunch of freaks....
Posted by: Rich | May 10, 2006 at 07:53 PM
Liza is Cuckoo with a capital C, but she will forever be awesome for having been so good on Arrested Development. And to all, (supporters, detractors, head-scratchers) I say this: TELL me you wouldn't want this woman at your party. She's like the crazy Tia we all have, you know the drunk, funny one who makes you laugh with love AND dirision and who kinda freaks your friends out.
Posted by: mariaaaaa | May 17, 2006 at 04:56 PM
I love Liza and this video was funny and I hate that goddamn pterodactyl Larry King. I swear if she was in the same room with him he would have picked her up with his claws
Posted by: Lizas Conscience | August 31, 2006 at 04:13 AM
I love Liza and this video was funny and I hate that goddamn pterodactyl Larry King. I swear if she was in the same room with him he would have picked her up with his claws
Posted by: Lizas Conscience | August 31, 2006 at 04:13 AM
I love Liza and this video was funny and I hate that goddamn pterodactyl Larry King. I swear if she was in the same room with him he would have picked her up with his claws
Posted by: Lizas Conscience | August 31, 2006 at 04:14 AM
That was a lovely musical theater.I do not have favourite part I like it all:))
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