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SAY AND SHOWS IT HE DID WATCH
ALL THOSE MOVIES.
BILL, YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING INTO
RAMOS AND WHO HOW HE GAME THE
COMEDY GREAT.
THOSE AREN'T THE ONLY MOVIES.
>> NOT AT ALL.
IF YOU CAME OF AGE DURING THE
AGE OF HBO, HE IS OUR ORSON
WELLES.
DID YOU KNOW THAT AND OT FIRST
DAY OF FIRST GRADE, HAROLD RAMOS
WAS SENT TO THE PRINCIPAL'S
OFFICE FOR CHEWING GUM.
HE REMEMBERS THINKING WELL,
THERE GOES COLLEGE.
BUT A TORTURED REBEL HE WAS NOT.
SEE, HAROLD WAS THE KIND OF KID
WHO SPENT HIS BAR MITTS VATS
MONEY ON WALL TO WALL CARPETING
FOR HIS PARENTS.
WHEN HE MADE IT TO WASHINGTON
YURNT UNIVERSITY IN THE '60s,
HIS TOOL OF ANARCHY WAS COMEDY.
THE SATIRE HE WROTE IN SCHOOL
HELPED HIM GET INTO THE SECOND
CITY AND TO AVOID VIETNAM HE
TOLD THE ARMY HE WAS A BED
WETTER WITH BED SWEATS AND
ATTRACTION TO MEN SOMETHING HE
WOULD USE IN THE GREAT MOVIE
"STRIPES."
>> WE'RE NOT HOMOSEXUAL BUT
WILLING TO LEARN.
>> YEAH, WOULD THEY SEND US SOME
PLACE SPECIAL?
>> IN THE EARLY DAYS, HAROLD
WANTED TO ACT AS MUCH AS WRITE
OR DIRECT BUT THEN HE SAW A GUY
NAMED JOHN BELLUSHI ON STAGE IN
CHICAGO AND HIS CONFIDENCE AS A
SCENE STEALER PLUMMETED.
INSTEAD OF COMPETING WITH FELLOW
COMICS HE GAN TO WRITE AND
DIRECT TO THEIR STRENGTHS.
>> WAS IT OVER WHEN THE GERMANS
BOMBED PEARL HARBOR?
HELL NO!
>> GERMAN?
FORGET IT, HE'S ROLLING
>> "ANIMAL HOUSE" WAS HIS FIRST
STAB AT SCREEN WRITING.
IN THE PROCESS, HE SAW HIMSELF
AS OTTER, THE SMART *** BON
VIVANT, THE LEADER OF THE
ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT PACK.
THAT WILL SAME SOUL SHOWED UP IN
MEATBALLS" AND "CADDYSHACK"" AND
STROOIPS STRIPES" AND
"GHOSTBUSTERS" A SPRING OF FILM
THAT TURNED IT RAMOS AND MURRAY
INTO THE LENIN AND McCARTNEY OF
COMEDY THAT INSPIRES A WHOLE NEW
GENERATION OF FUNNY INCLUDING A
TEENAGED JUD APATOW WHO BEGGED
HIM FOR A MEETING TO BETTER
UNDERSTAND THE MASTER AND TWEET
THIS HAD PHOTO YESTERDAY.
>> IT'S AMAZING WHEN YOU TALK
ABOUT EVERY ONE OF THEM ICONS IN
THEIR OWN WAY.
THERE'S BEEN A HUGE OUTPOURING
FROM HOLLYWOOD.
WHAT HE SAW AS FUNNY, HAD HE
BRAND OF COMEDY CHANGED OVER THE
YEARS, RIGHT?
>> IT EVOLVED BECAUSE LIKE THE
REST OF US ADULTHOOD HAPPENED.
HE HAD A MARRIAGE END AND HE,
WELL, HE PUT ON A LOT OF WEIGHT
AND THEN LOST IT AND THEN PUT ON
MORE.
HE ENTERED THERAPY, DISCOVERED
BUD DIX.
AND THEN HE STARTED MAKING
MOVIES ABOUT SELF-DISCOVERY AND
REDEMPTION.
>> WHO IS YOUR PERFECT GUY?
>> FIRST OF ALL, HE'S TOO HUMBLE
TO KNOW HE'S PERFECT.
>> THAT'S ME.
>> HE'S INTELLIGENT.
SUPPORTIVE.
FUNNY.
>> INTELLIGENCE, SUPPORTIVE
FUNNY.
ME.
ME, ME.
>> GROUNDHOG DAY," SUCH A HUGE
CHORD WITH EVERYONE FROM
BUDDHISTS TO CHRISTIANS TO
PSYCHOANALYSTS WHO FOUND MEETING
IN A SELF-EVOLVED CHARACTER
DOOMED TO LIVE THE SAME DAY TILL
HE BECOMES A BETTER PERSON.
THE IRONIC CASUALTY OF THAT FILM
WAS HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH BILL
MURRAY.
THEY HAD A FALLING OUT AFTER
RAPPING AND DIDN'T SPEAK FOR
ALMOST TWO DECADES.
I'VE HAD DREAMS ABOUT HIM THAT
WE WERE FRIENDS AGAIN RAMOS SAID
IN 2010 BEFORE A RARE DISEASE
LAID HIM LOW.
HE HAD TO LEARN TO WALK AGAIN,
SUFFERED A RELAPSE, NEVER
RECOVERED.
AMONG THOSE WHO VISITED HIS
CHICAGO HOME TOWARDS THE END,
BILL MURRAY.
BUT BEFORE WE GET MAUDE LYNN
HERE, IT WOULD BE -- IT WOULD
SHAME THE MEMORY OF HAROLD RAMOS