Fox After Breakfast
05/16/1997
Host: Tom Bergeron
Guest Host: Kim Coles (Living Single)
Announcer: Nancy Giles
Guests: Kyle Chandler (Early Edition), Mandy Patinkin (Chicago Hope)
[before commercial break]
Tom: ...you know, and we would have known that was going to happen, if we had just checked the Chicago Sun Times for tomorrow, right Nance?
Nance: That’s right, Tom. And, oh, I’m sorry, I don’t mean to brag, but, look who I’ve got down here with me in the booth.
Kyle: {surprised} Hello. How do you do?
Nance: You know, the sexy Kyle Chandler from, ah, Early Edition -- one of my close personal friends.
Kyle: {smiles at Nance and laughs}
Nance: Not to brag or anything. Anyway, would you like me to tell you what’s coming up, Tom?...
[commercial]
Tom: ...and joining us is a man who always gets tomorrow’s news today, from Early Edition, Kyle Chandler!
Kyle: {putting down coffee cup} Well, good morning, everybody. Hello. How are you?
Tom: {holding up Esquire magazine} Check this out. This is the current edition of Esquire?
Kyle: Yes.
Tom: Is that right? {to Kim} Do you want to hold that up, Ms Coles?
Kim: Yes, ever so gladly. {holds up magazine showing pics of Kyle in Italian suits}
Tom: He’s a fashion god!
Kyle: Fashion.....god. Wow.
Nance: You go Kyle, you go.
Kim: Oh, but wait, there’s more.
Kyle: Thanks Nancy.
Kim: You got like a whole ‘nother page...
Tom: How do you know Nancy?
Kyle: Huh? Nancy? I knew Nancy back in Los Angeles. I haven’t seen her in like three years.
Tom: She’s been in that little booth, that’s why.
Kyle: I Know.
Nance: That’s right.
Kyle: Does, do you let her out? Or is she...
Tom: {laughing} Occasionally. There are twice daily feedings.
Kyle: {looking up, listening for Nancy’s voice} You are like God.
Kim: It’s great, isn’t it?
Nance: I know. I know.
Tom: Early Edition - I love the premise for this show.
Kyle: Thank you.
Kim: I wanna know where, how it came about.
Kyle: It was a story that was around and it..actually had been a teleplay at one point, uh, with a beginning and an end. And then they took the idea and they created a series around it and added a few characters and, uh, in the original teleplay, the fellow saw his own death in the paper, but it was actually, in essence, him running across rooftops and the guy who was found dead had stolen his wallet. So when he ended up dead, he saw his own death in the paper. Although, it wasn’t him, it was the stolen wallet that gave the paper the wrong information. And, uh, in that sense, I think they try to take the show and, uh, try to trick the audience with the storylines here and there, and do whatever. So, but, that’s where it came from.
Tom: So this is a...now I’m just curious. I’m thinkin’ if I got tomorrow’s paper today, I’m just shallow enough that I’d be goin’ to the, through the financial pages, and, and, ya know, making some investments...
Kim: Bettin’ on the horses...
Kyle: That’s what I’d be doing also.
Tom: Mandy, would you be doin’ that?
Mandy: I’m a......I’m a......I’m......
Kyle: {laughing}
Mandy: I’m just...wondering if he would be a good donor. {confusion from Kyle, laughter from everyone else}
[Kim said earlier during Mandy’s interview that she was looking for a donor to father a child with]
Tom: Let’s not go there!
Kyle: {to Mandy} For what?
Mandy: For what! {laughs and pats Kyle on arm} Never mind, Kyle.
Kyle: {laughs}
Mandy: You just read tomorrow’s paper {still patting}
Kyle: {holding up hands in an "I surrender" attitude} Hey.....I’m just.....{grabs for coffee cup and smiles} What the hell kind of a show is this, anyway? {drinks}
Tom: Yeah, we’re wondering that ourselves, Kyle.
Mandy: No, actually, I would look at the financial section. I absolutely would.
Tom: And Fisher Stevens’ character does that.
Mandy: I’d look, actually, under the "over the counter" first. I find those to be the up-and-coming.
Tom: But you’re much more - your character, anyway - is much more, more philanthropic than that.
Kyle: He’s the nicest guy that ever walked the face of the earth. Do anything for anyone. Next year, next year, I’m hoping to see the guy’s, I’m hoping to, I’m hoping to see the character fail. It’d be nice to see him fail. And, uh, he, he, he’s done pretty well throughout the year. We’ve got Fisher Stevens on one side, who indeed is the dastardly fellow, who would do anything with the paper, that’s, uh, that’s not good. Shanesia Davis on the other side, who’s, plays a blind character, has sort of a sixth sense and, uh, she, she knows to do the right thing and I’m stuck in the middle, uh, torn.
Tom: I think the clip we have is of your {mouth popping noises from Kyle} warning Patricia Calliber (? the psych professor from "Love is Blind") of the occasional dangers of roughage...from Early Edition...
Kyle: {laughing} What?
Nance: Well put, Tom.
[they show the salad dressing clip from "Love is Blind"]
Tom: Don’t eat the salad.
Kyle: Don’t
Mandy: I know I said that I don’t watch much television but Kyle, I actually, Michael Dinner, who used to be the producer on Chicago Hope, went and produced your show for a while. So I would get your shows on videotape. He would send them to me when he was doing them, before it was even on the air. And my kids became addicts to them.
Kyle: Oh, really?
Mandy: So that, uh, between Liz and Michael, we, and I, the minute I saw you, I said, I called Michael, and I went, ‘well, that guy is a movie star.’
Kyle: Oh. Wow. Thank you. That’s very nice for you to say that.
Tom: Well, what we have to do *right* now, because we have a very time specific element to the show, the women are about to jump out of their airplane...{the All Female Sky-Diving Team}
Kyle: {confused laughter} What?
Tom: ...and I’d hate to only have the radio version of that.
[to commercial]
The end! (Kyle stayed for the remainder of the show, but didn’t get to contribute much of anything worth transcribing -- as Jade commented, there were some shots of Kyle outside when Debbie was singing, so it was worth watching the rest of the show!)
"Thank you Jade!"
Brenda :)