Danny DeVito seems to be having a pretty good time on his current press tour
DeVito is sharing stories about his co-stars and tweeting as Satan while promoting Little Demon
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Global treasure Danny DeVito is currently out on a press tour for his latest project, voicing Satan for an animated show called Little Demon. While we might expect an actor with a career as long as his to approach this kind of media obligation as a chore to get through, DeVito, instead, seems to be having a great time with the whole thing.
Our first indication of this came from his appearance on Vanity Fair with his real-life and Little Demon daughter, Lucy DeVito. Aside from just generally seeming to enjoy the premise of the lie detector test—which, he explains at the beginning, does not come naturally to a New Jersey-raised Italian American—Papa DeVito answers his child’s questions with zero hesitation.
“I love Colin. He’s a terrific guy,” DeVito says when shown a picture of his Dumbo costar and fellow Batman villain Colin Farrell. Before any question is asked, he volunteers: “My Penguin was better.”
After laughing a bunch, DeVito goes on to call One Direction “my boys” and “the best boy band ever,” praises BTS’ pleated pants, lies about sucking poison out of Michael Douglas’ hand, and then turns the tables on his daughter, starting with him asking, in a caricature of an Italian accent: “You smoke-a da pot?”
Last night, on another tour stop, DeVito appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live (which is currently being hosted by Nikki Glaser) to share more stories from the past. In the middle of an interview that sees him discussing stuff like emerging from a couch covered in oil for It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and making “meme faces” on demand, he tells the other side of a tale previously told by Arnold Schwarzenegger on Kimmel earlier this year about DeVito covertly getting him high while the two were filming Junior.
DeVito elaborates a bit more on the time when he “[stuck] a little weed” in the cigar he gave Arnold on a slow day while shooting Junior. This, DeVito says, resulted in Schwarzenegger grasping onto him for support and, as pantomimed on the show, standing around cross-eyed and silent while Ivan Reitman asked Arnold to speak lines he couldn’t remember.
In a final highlight, DeVito has also shown that he’s more than willing to advertise Little Demon on social media. He started to do so with an MS Paint image edit and, following that, a series of tweets that confused a lot of people who didn’t have the important context of the show he’s promoting.
We present a selection of those tweets below.
And, after about an hour of these, the conclusion:
Needless to say, we’re looking forward to DeVito getting out on the road to talk about the Twins sequel in due time.
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Say, what’s the latest with Kimmel, anyway? The guest-hosting while he’s out for another Covid round has been going on for a concerningly long time now.
He seems to be okay with taking time off in the way that other hosts aren’t. Maybe just decided he could use more time off.
He just took the summer off. I don’t remember why. He’ll be back in September.
Ah, okay. That’s cool, then.
Carson used to do stuff like that all the time. I’m surprised other hosts never do. It’s a great way to boost new potential hosts and draw eyeballs in the summer.
He’s just at home making wood fired pizza.
DeVito is a saint. Bless him. He might be one of the celebrities I will be genuinely sad to lose.
He’s just offering his hosts some eggs in these trying times.
I saw a recent interview, he revealed he prefers his Taylor ham* on a hard roll with mustard and lettuce. I’ve never heard of that combo before. I have so many questions like yellow or brown? Shredded lettuce or full leaf? No eggs at all?!*The interviewer even started off by asking him if he calls it Taylor ham or pork roll. Clearly only Jersey guys in the room.
I hope there’s some rum with that!
Well, good for him. I bet publicity tours are really tedious as you have to constantly fake smile and tell the same couple stories over & over trying to act engaged while Jimmy Fallon is falling off his seat in hysterics, or Jimmy Kimmel is tearing up.
Or Stephen Colbert is breaking out into a Shakespeare sonnet or obscure Elvin passage from The Lord of the Rings.
Dude speaks Olde Elvish!
Charles Grodin didn’t play that shit
Wow. I thought the premise sounded like a ripoff of Lucy, Daughter of the Devil. And then I find out that it’s literally Lucy DeVito.