Hey there, Fanarritos, Welcome back to a brand new episode of How Rude Tannertos.

Whether you recognize today's guest from that scene in Back to the Future Part two where he's shouting about wallets, or the time he dressed up as a giant caterpillar in Adventures in Wonderland, you're bound to see Wesley Mann once and remember the endless funny characters he transforms into.

He guest starred on our show as a snooty waiter in season eight, episode thirteen, the Producer, and you'll find him most recently on Apple TV's Palm Royal and Boy is this a fun discussion.

Buckle up, Fanarritos, please welcome to the podcasts.

Well, hello Wesley Man from space.

Yeah, I'm floating around in the.

Love It Live from the universe.

I'm actually speaking to you from only steps away from where we recorded that episode of full House.

Really really, Oh no way.

Oh that's so cool at Warner Brothers or at Sony Warner Bros.

Oh that's so cool up the hill, ma'am.

I know, right, yeah, that's right, full and Florhouse we did.

We did Fuller House there as well.

But the is the same exact stage.

Yeah, Stage twenty four has a lot of magic.

Yeah, that stage called.

Whoo how rude?

I mean, why wouldn't they recall a waiter from nineteen ninety five?

I don't know.

I would have if I was in charge of I definitely would have.

Thank you so much.

Welcome to the show.

Uh, we just hop right into our interviews.

So you we are so glad to have you here.

Uh and well, I'm delighted.

I'm an open book.

I love this amazing.

Well, I mean, you have an incredible uh career and a ton of credits and I m dB uh.

And of course we have to mention Palm Royale, which you did, right, we know, which I am shamefully admitting that I have not watched yet, but I'm terrible at watching shows.

So it's I know, I know, start tonight.

We're gonna start tonight.

I'm sorry, I've gotta go.

Uh.

But we know that John Stamos was also has also done some some Palm Royal, so uh yeah.

Did you have any scenes with him or did you meet him on set?

Or were you guys shamed because.

He plays this sexy dude and I'm in avuncular announcer, I got it, but he did approach me on the set of the one of the two episodes he was on, and he approached me immediately and said, you're so funny on this show.

Yes, you know we worked together like thirty years ago.

He was like, he didn't remember.

Yeah, I was a waiter on Perhaps.

He was like, oh oh, oh yeah, yeah.

I can't believe you didn't remember that on a episode.

So yeah, yeah.

So we're ramping up to the season finale.

So if you want to get your Apple, you know streaming service, you can probably stream both.

Yeah, yeah, Okay.

That's the thing, is I I my attention span.

If I sit through a whole first season and then it's a year until the next one, I give up and I'm never watching it.

But if I can binge two or three and get in there, okay, great, then now you've held my attention.

But yeah, we could be your right.

Well.

Now, I am excited for Palm Rail though, because and I've heard so many great things, so many great things about it.

It's a wonderful, wonderful sets in the Wig and Kristen Wig, who was nominated for an Actor Award this week.

Which yeah, yeah, they changed the awards.

They have Yeah, Kristen Wig Alice.

She's so amazing.

Yeah, Laura Dern as well, and Ricky Martin the most handsome man on the face.

And someone named Carol.

Burn vaguely, I vaguely feel as though I was familiar in her comedy.

Yeah, who is also as gracious as today.

That's what a great job.

That's one of my prize possessions, which is hanging on the wall behind me, is a selfie that she agreed to have.

Oh wow, I got a friend that to the wall forever.

That's amazing.

I had one U scene with her in UH season one where she was she was in a wheelchair playing a scene with me and I had like two lines and I managed not good.

And then afterward I put my hand on her shoulder and I said, Carol, you know it would mean a great deal to me if I could have a selfie with you.

And she immediately said, well, of course, And so she had to work for a little while, and about a half hour later she found me and she said, let's do it now.

She had just didn't take the photograph.

That's the kind of gracious person that I love.

That So it's an amazing set to be on, and you know, Abe Sylvia is the you know, our captain and no Runner and it's just a delight because it's zany and it's extravagant.

His view is that he wanted to do like old style movie making before everything turned into kitchen table reality, so like lavish Hollywood, and so that's why it's so much.

Yeah, you know, from scenic to costumes to wiggs to make up.

It's ridiculous and it's been just a fat Oh.

How fun and it makes sense so great.

Well I haven't heard yet, okay, because then I get to see.

No, that sounds like an amazing set, and it sounds a lot like our experiences with like full and Fuller House, where you're like, this is insane, it's zany, this is this is fun and silly and exaggerated, and so you just get to kind of lean into it and have fun and like work with amazing friends and people and you're like this is.

There were those days when you were like, this is my job, Like wow.

Did full House go beyond age?

No?

We just did eight on full House and then five on Fuller House.

It sounds ridiculous now that never happens anymore.

It's amazingly great that they brought it back.

We were very lucky, Yeah, very lucky.

And you know, when you get you get to go to the same place for work every day.

There's such familiarity and comfort and so you can really like push the envelope.

Yeah, yeah, you do.

You get to love that.

That stage life, that set life, because you're like, I know, this is at least one routine.

I know where I'm going every day.

Great, did you Okay, let's let's go back all the way all the way back.

Your first credit on IMDb was a guest starring role on The Golden Girls.

Correct, And I wow, I.

Have to show you what my kid got me for Christmas, which is.

Golden Girls.

It's it's by Brick.

It's by Brickcraft, which is another building set, and it is the Golden Girls.

So because I love it Golden Girls lover and I also love building things.

But tell us about what that experience was like.

Was that that was your first guest starring role.

What was I mean again, iconic women in comedy?

Yeah?

Absolutely, you know I had auditioned, you know, on a Wednesday, I think, and on Friday my agent called and said, congratulations, you booked you know, the Golden Girls thing, and I immediately froze.

Back then we had but yeah.

You actually held them up the ear right.

They were attached to something that wouldn't let and I was I.

Was simultaneously excited and terrified because I didn't know what I was getting into.

I had trained it as a theater actor, but I had grown up watching sitcoms and wanting to be in them, you know, like All in the Family was just a regular thing for us.

Groundbreaking and welcome back Cotter and body Miller and odd couple and match all that classics.

Anyway, Yeah, so Monday, I show up shaking, and you know, I'm sure you're familiar with table reads.

I found a little placard with and uh, I was doing a Minnesotan accent because I was a ticket taker and a Saint Olas.

Okay, I was going to say, oh.

I was dueling the Oh yeah.

Yeah.

We went around a corner and a robus, so I was doing my thing, and when they started to read, there were these laughs that came from like nowhere, like I had read the script, but I would all the laughter, which is by design for timing all the producers and writers are laughing at their own joke, and I thought, wow, I'm doing really well.

It made me really nervous, of course, you know.

And then being that it was the sixth season and these women were all seasoned actresses, we did a table read and that was it.

Y'all go home.

Oh yeah, I remember those days.

And then on Tuesday, you know, Monday night, I got blue pages delivered.

Right.

Yeah.

We lived out in Orange County, so every day some porschmok had to drive all the way down to us.

Yeah, in the middle of the night and deliver a script.

Yeah.

Well, at least that porch was employed.

Yep.

So we got blue pages.

And then the next day we had rehearsal, and then we went home, and then Wednesday we had rehearsal, and then we had a producer's run that night, that evening, last thing of the day, you know, and we ran through the whole show and uh, you know, my my bit got some lovely reactions, and Betty wife that she was leaving, walked past me and said, Wow, it's too bad you didn't get any laughs.

And and of course the next day half my jokes were cut because you just can't be funnier than the regulars.

You just gosh, oh my gosh, no way.

And of course they have to cut for time because I always.

Right, right, right, and the guest star is the one that's getting cut.

Yeah.

Yeah, what a compliment from Betty White, right, you made better White a little jealous of your comedy skills.

That's impressive, sir.

But you know, hey, hey kid, you're one of us.

And b Arthur didn't say a word.

To me the end, I am.

I know I always hear that about her, but I still want to be her, but not like but but a little friendlier, but.

Like always And I'm trying to remember the lady who played Grandma.

Still still Getty, You're still Getty.

Still Getty was so nice to me.

I came back early from lunch one day and she said, so, I heard you had am eating with my manager.

I said, yeah, I do, she said, and I heard you turn them down.

I said, well, yeah, I've been told you know, you don't only need a manager when you have a career to manage.

And she said, I do the same thing.

Good for you, you know.

So she was very very nice to me too, And so anyway, Thursday, camera blocking, long day, we get everything in the can and then I think, I think that's how it went on that one.

They might have done two tapings on Friday.

Wow, But usually camera block in the morning and then shoot like because it was an audience show, right.

Yeah, yeah, any p tape stuff in the morning and then and then you know, a long break and dinner on another stage and then let the audience in and that whole thing.

And it went really well.

And I just was gratified by the whole bloody thing, and I just wanted more of it, and obviously I did more of.

It, just a little bit.

Well, you know, one of our assistant director, Lex Pisaris, was on Golden Girls, I think he was on He was the assistant director on there, or directed a few of them.

I think at the end, but I think so.

But yeah, he would also regale us with amazing tales of just the comedy genius from those women.

Yeah, and you know, I had forgotten Terry Hughes directed my particular episode, and he was just like delightful English, you know, tall lender, silver hair, and he ate a banana and yeah, but very clear about direction and cameras and you know how it works.

It's an amazing n team to do a four cameras.

So anyway, uh yeah, and some of those some of those guys, especially the boom guys and the camera operators, I have run into over the years and we and we talk about, Oh, you were on Adventures, or you were on Golden Girls, were on you were on Emerging.

Oh, it's such a like there are you know, it's it's traveling circuses of little bases and then there's overlap, you know.

Yeah, you know, And I've always tried to make friends with that because they've seen everything.

So if you can make them laugh, it's kind of awesome and they really appreciate that.

You know, one of the camera guys on Palm Royal I see regularly at you know, the tally head right Oh yeah, yeah, you know, and you know he's always a boollyan.

God, you really killed it on this thing.

Yea.

Yeah, it's it becomes you.

It's cliche to say it's a family, because it's not, you know, right, No, we are.

Very very much the same experience, and we were raised on a show that also had the same mentality about that Crewe was not just some you know, outside thing that you know, the cast didn't involve themselves with We were all we all knew each other well, Like I can still tell you the names of some of our camera operators.

From when I was five years old, you.

Know, because we were we were we were together all the time.

So and I do think for me, it's one of the things when I see and I don't see it often, but I have seen a couple of times where people are just really terrible to Crewe and I'm like, hmm, that tells me a lot about you.

And and they're they're going to make you look really terrible.

They're not gonna like you.

They can do be very friendly with your makeup.

Right, I would be nowhere without my makeup and hair, right, yes?

Now what you also did Adventures in Wonderland, the TV show, which I remember.

I bet you remember that.

I loved that.

Uh And yeah, when I was reading through everything, it was like, you know, you were the caterpillars, Like, oh my, yes, I totally remember.

Yeah, Like do you still do people recognize you from that?

Or yes?

People your age?

You and I don't even know specifically.

What I would be forty four in a couple of weeks so I would forty nine here.

Yeah, so even through that makeup, I think it's the fact that my eyes are not perfectly straight that I am recognizable through that makeup.

And of course I was going to say it's it's the voice, Yes, your voice in your eyes.

Yeah, sure, yeah.

So so even under you know, two and a half hours of prosthetic makeup and context and all that stuff, Yeah, they do, and the voice they do.

You know, I'm like, oh, yes, I remember, yes.

And so you guys have the same reaction to me as I would have if I ever met Bob Keishan.

Bob Keishan was.

Kept yes, okay, yeah, I do.

Yeah, because it's formative for us when we're kids, they're your friends and if you're I was, I grew up as sort of a half only like my next sibling was six years older than me.

So television was my good way through, uh through a lot of my formative years.

And so yes, that's the very long winded aroundabout answer to your question that yes people do.

Yeah, it's those formative shows and moments.

I mean, you know, I've talked about it before.

I met Brian.

Hanson recently, and I will tell the story for the rest of my life.

But I cried this like this was in the last six months.

I just freaked out because I was like, this is my childhood, you know.

I met Carol Spinney and was like, it's big bird, you know.

And it's cool because we get to also be that for so many people, because Full House was such a you know, growing up experience for so many So it's it's fun to get to be on the other side of it be like, wow, that is there's something really cool and important about that.

When people were like, oh you, I remember watching you when I was little, like you were my friend.

Yeah.

Yeah, and you know what, it's sort of serendipitous that, you know.

I was watching Keenan Thomson on The Today Show this morning and he was talking about comedy as being service.

Yes, service to people like that, but that's what we do.

We make people laugh, we make them feel things, we give the offer them in this from if they need it.

And I've always thought of it that way.

Yeah, you know, Oh that's I love that to think of comedy as service because it is it's let me come, let me entertain you, let me you know, just take you escape.

And there's such an intimate thing when you make a group, a group of two hundred people laugh, you know, in the studio, certainly it's gratifying, but you know you like them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a very reciprocal thing, more so than single cam dramas or anything like that.

You know, it is it's like live theater, you get it's you all kind of become one momentum.

Yeah, exactly, you're all creating it together.

You know.

In the theater, we call the audience that the last character.

Oh yeah, of what you're.

Doing, because it's a give and take.

And that's what I love about doing for cam and is the closest thing to doing a twenty two minute place.

That's we say the same thing.

There's that the exhilaration of knowing that you're sort of doing it live, but also that like, if something happens, you can do it again, but that the audience is so excited and they're having fun in there, and it's you're you're working in the midst of a of a circus.

When you're doing a live audience taping, you know.

Well, I always feel like diff Oh I was just going to say, I feel like you get a better performance out of actors, at least for me, when you're performing in front of a live audience compared to single camp.

So I yeah, and in my perspective, like recently on Palm Royal, I was given a monologue where I was supposed to be drunk, and I was given it about an hour before I was supposed to do and so I was in my train working on it, working on it work okay, And I thought about Bobby moynihan doing you know, drugs Local and you know, and I was like, oh yeah, I thought about Foster Brook, who was brilliant that the drug comedy theme.

That's all.

I got it all worked up, and then I did it on the set and Abe was like, oh my god, that's fantastic.

And then he said, let's just do one more for fun.

Okay, okay, great, And I felt absolutely exhilarated because I had come through doing this monologue on sha notice and you know, Kristen Wig and Alison Janney were both like, what the.

Hell, that's incredible and who I was very excited because they called me in to do some adr on that scene and I just noticed that, oh yeah, that all went to the cutting room for.

That's offensive.

I'm offended on your mouth.

Yeah, it's just her.

Yeah, you can't get your feelings in it, you know.

All right, This wraps up Part one of our interview with Wesley Man.

We hope you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed talking to him.

He is the man of many faces and he's sure to have left an impact on some of your favorite.

TV shows and movies over the years.

I know he did for me.

So with so many.

Projects and life experiences to talk about, we had to extend this interview to a two parter, so be sure to tune in to Part two of our interview with Wesley, airing this Friday.

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So remember, guys, world is small.

The house is full.

Of the golden.

Girls, full of the gold just all of them, the golden girls, all.

Of them, all the golden girls, great, all of them.

They like cloned.

So there's like just little pods of the four of them.

Oh, all of the I want to live in that world, please, multiple.

Yeah, it's multi multiple, it's yeah, it's the multiverse of Golden Girls.

Yeah, what a dream in the full house.

House and Right have a crossover.

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