The Patsy
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They have in Paramount at the studios
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a piece of a floor that's the only piece
that you never fell on.

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And they have it behind plexiglas
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with a... a shield,
so it should be protected for life.

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The piece of floor that Jerry never fell on.
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The body, over a period of years, if you
look at five, six decades of doing this,

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at some point your body says,
"It's payback time."

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I broke both hips one at a time.
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I fractured the right knee twice,
broke the left knee once,

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broke my right hand once
and broke my left hand twice

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and a collarbone once or twice.
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You never did it on a film
where they had to hold up shooting.

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- Yeah.
- It did happen?

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On The Caddy, I fell out of a two-storey
building into corrugated boxes

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but I landed really bad
on a pointed section of the boxes.

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And I broke the patella of this knee.
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- Can I feel your patella?
- No.

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I'll let you feel my patella.
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Then in Cinderfella, I ran up the stairs,
which was 67 steps

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that I ran in nine seconds.
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Got up to the top, couldn't breathe.
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And they thought I had a heart attack,
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rushed me to Mount Sinai.
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So I'm laying there in the oxygen tent.
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This is a long time ago,
when the oxygen tent was like that.

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If they wanted to see you,
they'd lift the flap.

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I'm laying there in the oxygen tent,
my dad opens the flap,

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looks in and says, "You know
what you're doing to your mother?"


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