#373 - Ed Begley Jr on TO THE TEMPLE OF TRANQUILITY...AND STEP ON IT!

Actor & environmentalist Ed Begley Jr chats with Trey Elling about his new memoir, TO THE TEMPLE OF TRANQUILITY...AND STEP ON IT! Topics include:

• Carrie Fisher's influence on this book (0:00)
• What Ed Begley Sr was like as a dad (1:37)
• Smoking a joint with Charles Manson (2:44)
• Doing standup with Michael Richards at the Comedy Store in its first week (4:36)
• How a cop routine got him into trouble (6:10)
• Having John Lennon fanboy on Ed (9:49)
• Working for Norman Lear in the 1970s (11:20)
• Endearing himself to Richard Pryor while filming Blue Collar (12:28)
• How Jack Nicholson helped him as an actor when making Goin' South (13:50)
• Recognizing the good fortune he was born into (16:24)
• How St. Elsewhere improved him as an actor (18:19)
• Hosting SNL in 1984 (20:43)
• Ed's Larry David story (22:57)
• Having to squash Marlon Brando's dream (24:25)
• Bruno Kirby's influence on Ed as a person (27:25)
• How Christopher Guest saved his career (28:58)
• Working on Arrested Development (30:58)
• Living with Parkinson's Disease (32:51)
• Why the phrase "This is It" means so much (34:56)