Robert Downey Jr. Trying to Quit Smoking

Robert Downey Jr
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Before he was Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. was a talented actor trying to break a habit. He also played a game with Ellen!
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That is enough!
Hello, Robert.
Hello, friend.
You look lovely.
Well, thank you for noticing.
I compliment you every single time, because you really do look fantastic.
Let me ask you how the smoking is going.
You're 40 years old, you look fantastic, you're taking care of yourself.
Right.
And have you...
I have a plan. I have a plan for the stop smoking thing.
To stop smoking?
Yeah, I have a date that's a somewhat movable date.
And I also, I figured out this time I'm going to get helmets
for everyone that I care about for the first two weeks.
Like bubble helmets?
Like, where do they work?
See, that's another thing.
The form is, it's taking a greater shape as we speak.
Uh-huh.
Maybe ones that protect the neck zone as well, I'm not sure.
Uh-huh.
Right now, I was thinking two-man toboggan helmets would probably do.
Uh-huh.
And that would...
Because those are different than the one-man toboggan helmets.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, it's if two people are near you.
Yeah.
Right.
And so, when is the plan to quit?
The plan was the 13th.
Now, more than likely, it's the 14th.
But like I said, it's a movable and shifting...
Uh-huh.
...algorithm plan.
You guys, you know, geometry. Think about it.
It's a...
What?
It's a rhombus plan.
And Susan, your wife, you got married last year.
Does she smoke or is she on your back like this?
She's actually on my back to not stop smoking right away
because she's seen me attempt to stop before.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
So, she's not as anxious as I am to get you to quit.
I don't have to live with you.
Not that I'm aware of.
So, are you healthy together?
Do you have some kind of exercise regime
because you're supposed to change it to something
because you were doing all kinds of yoga before?
Do you play sports together?
We mix it up. We just took up tennis.
Mm-hmm.
If I really want to get her riled up, I'll say,
why don't I join you on your run today?
Because I jog like...
It's like underwater.
I jog so slow.
What about golf, that you wouldn't have to run as much?
But then what if I stop smoking
and I've got golf clubs right in my hand?
I'm thinking about these things.
Yeah, no, that's good.
I'm trying to think of a sport you could play that would be safe.
What about playing cards?
Do you like crazy eights?
I'm thinking paper cut.
I thought about that before I said it.
What about, let's talk about your gorgeous son, Indio.
Okay.
Who is, he must be on you about this too.
You don't want to, if you have a child.
We played ping pong the other day.
And he said, if I beat you, which I believed he couldn't.
He said, you can't smoke for the rest of the day.
And he beat me.
And then I said, rematch.
But then he beat me again.
Yeah, it's getting tough.
I'm in a corner.
Yeah.
I think he's wearing eyeliner in that picture.
He is wearing eyeliner.
In that picture too, yeah.
Yeah, he's beautiful though.
Isn't he?
He's absolutely beautiful.
And what is he into now?
Is he...
He's into Led Zeppelin a bit.
Really?
Yep, he played lead guitar at a sixth grade assembly.
And they did Stairway to Heaven.
Wow, good for him.
You must jam with him.
Because you play piano.
You must play with him a lot.
Right.
We would have jammed.
And we've jammed before.
But I want to play Journey.
And he wants to play Nirvana or Led Zeppelin.
But I did drill him.
Because I said, you have to know it 150%.
If you're going to do it, there's going to be hundreds of people there.
And he's like, dad, relax.
I just got it.
I said, no.
One and two and three and four.
And we started doing it.
And I'm drilling him and drilling him.
And I'm like, no, the third note on the thing coming.
You've got to be right on time.
And he stopped playing.
And he looked at me like I was, I don't know, crazy.
Wow.
Which I'm not.
No.
And so tell us about the remake of the movie, of Shaggy Dog.
Well, did anybody see the original?
Well, it's not very much like that.
But it's good, you know.
And it's Tim Allen's movie.
And as you would imagine, certain things occur.
And he gets to understand his own family and life better by what happens between him and this dog.
And he's the dog.
You know, like that story.
And you had fun working with him?
Because you're both very funny people.
So that must have been.
Oh.
Well, I got to play an evil scientist.
Which vis-a-vis the story with me and Indio and the drilling him on the.
You know, I am kind of an evil scientist.
Except I'm not evil.
Or a scientist.
Yeah.
This is a moment to regroup entirely.
Robert's going to hold up a picture of a famous dog above his head.
I'm going to try to get him to guess the name of the dog.
And we're going to see how many he can get right in 60 seconds.
All right?
Yeah.
You're going to hold one of those up over and over again.
Until.
I don't even know what this is.
So.
All right.
Ready?
Yeah.
Go.
Oh, what's that, boy?
Somebody's stuck in a canyon?
With Diane Cannon?
With a.
Somebody?
Underdog.
Wow.
You're sure pretty collie.
Lassie.
Yeah.
I love.
Sorry.
Scooby-Doo.
See how honest I've become?
Yeah.
That's great.
Hey.
Listen.
Wow.
This is going great.
What about the Red Baron and I.
Snoopy.
Timmy the Magic Squirrel.
I'm going to call Dr. Dre and he and I are going to go.
Noop Dog?
Yep.
Yeah.
Little fella.
Come here.
Underdog?
He's.
He's small and furry and he was in a movie and it's just.
It's.
Benji.
I get one because I.
Look.
Sorry.
It's all right.
They weren't.
They weren't penalizing you.
Old Yeller.
I wouldn't have known what to say for that.
Can I keep these?
Yes.
Take them all.
What did I not miss?
That would have been good.
And I wouldn't have known her.
Her dog's name.
At all.
Would you?
No.
I didn't know that.
Alf is not a dog.
Alf would have been fun.
Is Alf a dog?
It's like an anteater or something.
