Special Tribute honoring Gene Wilders life and career. | dG1fNmdkYkpENDl0MkU
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00:00 Come with me and you'll be in a world of your imagination.
00:08 I used to be Jerry Silberman. When I was eight years old, my mother had her first heart attack.
00:14 Her heart specialist whispered in my ear, "Try to make her laugh."
00:18 My blank and my blue blank, give me my blue blank.
00:20 The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life.
00:24 And I did make my mother laugh.
00:26 He was a combination of innocence and danger.
00:29 Champagne?
00:30 You didn't know what she and father was going to do.
00:32 He was an actor who had an ability to be funny.
00:39 Hello.
00:41 He's naive, he's innocent, he's sweet, simple and honest.
00:47 But when he got excited, he was a volcano.
00:51 He had a unique ability to find humor.
00:56 I never thought it could be like this.
00:58 In anything.
00:59 I love Gene's choice of acting roles. It's totally eclectic.
01:05 Oi, get out!
01:07 Gene and Mel, they go beyond.
01:09 Don't put the candle back.
01:12 And we couldn't not laugh.
01:14 May I go in?
01:15 We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.
01:21 You could tell that this was going to be somebody who was going to be fun to work with.
01:25 He wasn't treating me like a kid.
01:28 Gene was able to do things in comedy that are dangerous to do.
01:33 Darling.
01:34 Would you get down?
01:35 Richard Pryor was my teacher.
01:37 What are you doing?
01:38 Good man.
01:39 My dad knew undeniably there was a magic between them.
01:42 It's alright.
01:43 They fueled each other and their improvs made them both better.
01:47 You've had tragedy in your life.
01:49 You seem like you're in a really good place now you're happy.
01:52 He was just a different kind of person than I'd ever met.
01:56 To have found someone at this stage in my life. I was in love.
02:00 But I knew then that something was very wrong.
02:03 Alzheimer's disease, dementia.
02:05 When I'd see him slip away further from me, that was the hardest part.
02:10 He embodied these characters and we felt their humanity.
02:16 You'll never find another Gene Wilder. He was amazing.
02:20 I didn't think Jerry Silberman had the right ring to it.
02:23 I wanted to be Wilder.
02:26 I'll do it!
02:28 I'm done.
02:31 [Wilder]
02:35 [Wilder]
02:38 [MUSIC]