I don't know if I can get them going. They clam up on me everywhere. But once they start going, all right, they're Mike.
So you talk into the lesson. People make up their minds about Dolly Parton before she says a word. The hair, the heels, the rhinestones.
Then she actually opens her mouth and she's usually the funniest person in the room. Here are her most charming moments. Well, you and I are the same age and I, you know, I've always I've never had any children either and I always wanted to and uh, you know, cuz I always kind of wanted to experience that whole breastfeeding thing.
[laughter] Well, if you had a grand piano, wouldn't you want to play it? [cheering] Dolly explained exactly how her glowing dress worked at the Dollywood tree lighting. Then she added one line that had nothing to do with Christmas lights at all.
So, uh, Steve Summers designed this, uh, outfit for me. And so, it was a row of lights when I went out and then when they started to open the tree, he was off to the side with a remote. So, I started just glowing all over.
And everybody got a kick out of it. But, it's not the first time I flashed him. But, [laughter] on David Letterman's show, Dolly got deep into describing what Johnny Cash's true charisma felt like to her.
Halfway through, she paused to check in on Letterman directly. I mean, I saw him on stage and I just felt things that I'd never felt before, right? I did cuz he had that funny way, you know, like how Elvis did.
I didn't know what the all the feelings were, but I something special, something different about people. Well, like yourself as well, you know, you you you you see it immediately. There's a magnetism or something.
Oh, am I turning you on? Am I? Speaking of Johnny Cash, years after that first crush, Dolly got the chance to say what he really meant to her.
He was so magnetic. I always and I we got to be friends through the years and I told him he was my first crush that what at first time I knew what real sex appeal really was when I got really worked up about you know just thinking stuff you know what I'm saying Johnny Cash wasn't the only thing Dolly had strong opinions about a student once asked her for one piece of advice for teenagers today what came out first wasn't quite the inspirational quote she expected the question is if you could tell teenagers of America today one thing, whether it be advice or something of support, what would it be? I would say act like it's raining every day and wear your rubbers.
[laughter] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] Dalia has never needed a filter, even when the topic turns political. Ellen DeGeneres told her fans wanted her to run for president, and her answer took aim at every man who's ever held the office. We have to go to break.
Your fans have actually said that they think you should run for for office someday, that you should run for president. That's how much your fans believe in you. And is that something that you'd even be interested in to to run for office?
No. Don't you think we've had enough boobs in the White House? [cheering] Dolly showed up to David Letterman's show fully costumed as a reindeer.
The conversation somehow got a little spicier than the outfit suggested. It wasn't his fault. I just thought it'd be fun if we could just be horny together.
Yeah. Yeah. Tomorrow night.
Don't Don't you want to go rub your head on a tree or something? I want to rub my head on you. [laughter] At the 2019 CMA Awards, Carrie Underwood made a joke about Dolly's rack in their shared dressing room.
Dolly turned it into one of the best lines of the night. For some reason, Dolly's rack is so much bigger. Well, Dolly's rack is so much bigger.
[cheering] I might not have been as tall as you girls if I hadn't got so bunched up at the top. I I'm just I'm just kind of addressing the elephants in the room. Anyway, Dolly has never held back her advice, even at university commencement speeches.
Speaking to graduates, she listed everything that had worked for her and had a warning for any boys taking notes. So, but what has worked for me may not work for you. Well, take for instance what has worked for me.
Wigs, tight clothes, push-up bras, [cheering] high heel shoes, 5 in high heel shoes. All I got to say, take my advice. Some of you boys out there may find yourself on a little different career path than you might have planned.
Dolly talks about her husband Carl more openly than most people would dare. Discussing her Dumplin collaboration with Jennifer Aniston, she revealed exactly what fantasy her husband had in mind. Have you known Jennifer Aniston for a while?
You know, I love her to death. My husband is crazy about her. Really?
Yes. and he was more excited that I was going to do a movie uh with her than he was that I got the chance to write all this music. See, I think he kind of fantasizes like a three with [cheering] Carl.
Hey Carl, go to Hey, go to bed. Please go. No, but I'm serious.
He does. And I think I think he can't even get it out to pee, much less get it up to three. Carl's Jennifer Aniston fantasy wasn't a one-time confession with Jennifer actually in the room this time.
Dolly wasn't about to let the joke go. Is Dolly in trouble with Carl? No.
Carl's so funny though. He got a big kick out of that. But he thought it was funny.
He said, "Uh, well, I'm I'm not going to do a three. I can maybe do a two and a half. " And here's [laughter] Jennifer.
Whatever Whatever that mean, Dolly. This is just [laughter] the only human that can say that. Honest.
Jennifer Aniston isn't the only celebrity Dolly has brought a threesome joke up with. Standing next to G. Brooks on stage, she came up with a brand new meaning for his initials.
I saw you online telling all those nice people out there that I'm your hall pass. And that's what he said. And that I'm Trish's hall pass, too.
Amen. Hey, I just had a thought. I know why you're doing that goat thing.
I think that stands for G organized a three. [cheering] On the Tonight Show promoting Rhinestone, Dolly was asked whether she preferred an average guy or a Stallone level physique. Her answer had nothing to do with muscles.
Do you prefer say the averagel looking guy would say just, you know, nice build or the Steve Steroid type of guy? You know, I mean, really the really pumped up. I never met a man I didn't like.
Really? I like them all. I really go for the personality and the heart and the soul.
So, the physical is not that important. Well, he not necessarily. He's But he was fun to look at.
He was a great inspiration. So, was [laughter] Well, it's true. I mean, the man takes care of his body, right?
Right. Sure. Like me and Ed do.
That's right. I mean this. Look at this hunk.
Yeah. You think I would text alone over this? No way.
Well, you're just you're just flattering as I know that. Yeah. Talking to Vogue about her old variety show costumes.
Dolly recalled telling her designer to tone things down. What she said needed toning down instead was pure Dolly. All this stuff that were so fashionable.
I said, "Tony just got to tone it down a little. There ain't nothing big about me but my mouth and my boobs. How you think I looked?
" That's what I thought. Reuniting with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda at an awards show, Dolly had one very specific item she was hoping to find in her swag bag. Actually, I just I'm here to have a good time tonight and I'm just hoping Well, congratulations on your nomination for your show.
Thank you. I'm just hoping that I'm going to get one of those uh Grace and Frankie vibrators in my swag bag tonight. Dolly's chest has apparently come up in more than one interview on Parkinson asked if she'd always been built that way.
She brought up a specific moment. But I just love makeup. I love hair.
I love flashy clothes. And and I'm not a natural beauty. I don't have legs and beauty like these girls.
Well, I would have been tall, but I got bunched up at the top. [laughter] dropping six more I guess. But actually it the way I look uh came from a serious place of a country girl's idea of glamour.
Were you always bunched up at the top? Well, I've always had big but [laughter] but I've had a little help lately or Yeah. Well, when my husband said, "Let me see your boobs.
" And had to pull my skirt up. I thought I'd better get it. [laughter] Dolly has never had trouble talking about temptation.
Asked which of her co-stars was the best kisser, her answer wasn't quite who anyone expected. You've had love scenes. Which one of these guys would be the best kisser?
Like best kisser for sure was Stallone in that. But actually James Woods, you didn't ask me about him. He's the one James Woods.
Yeah. Stallone was a great kisser. He had those big soft sweet smooth lips.
But you wouldn't you wouldn't believe how James Woods can kiss. In fact, I tell him every time I see him, you know, you want a kiss, you want to do another. When I did the show with Bert Reynolds, though, we did the best little chicken house in Texas.
He had to wear a mustache and he had to black it. Yeah. Cuz his, you know, his beard was gray.
So, they had to put black in every time I kiss him. I just all black all around my face. I couldn't get into knowing if he could kiss good or not cuz he made me look so bad.
On the Tonight Show, the city of Seville named a highway after Dolly. She couldn't help but point out one very specific detail about the road. It's nice to have something that could be there permanently after, you know, forever.
Yeah, that was one of the greatest compliments that I've had paid to me. And you might know they picked the flattest stretch of ground. No, no curves, no hills, straight straight away.
No, they were thinking about dedicating Interstate 40 to [laughter] walking onto Ellen's set, Dolly didn't need a single question before revealing what had just happened to her top. I just I just popped my top, but it's all right. It's done.
That's probably not the first time. No, it's not. [laughter] Now, is it's okay.
Do we need to do anything? No, it's all right. All right.
I've showed more than that. I'll fix it at a commercial. But anyway, it's okay.
This is all right. You You had a hilarious line the other day when you said that there's not going to be a wardrobe malfunction with you because Oh, I said because I'd probably take out the first three rows. On late night, Conan O'Brien offered Dolly a hand fixing her outfit.
What she said back set the tone for the entire interview. Hello there. Let me help you.
Uh, okay. We're in here in my double breasted suit. Yeah, [laughter] I swear I was I was just I was wasn't even thinking that and the whole audience is like, "Well, that's all right.
I'll have fun with them, too. " I'm I'm shocked when Opening her Saturday Night Live monologue, Dolly revealed her sparkly outfit came with a very specific instruction. Whether you like my outfit, [cheering] you recognize it, [applause] don't you?
This is the NBC Peacock. [laughter] That's because Lauren Michaels told me to wear this cuz he wanted me to check my tail feathers for you. David Letterman pulled up Dolly's actual high school yearbook photo.
She admitted she was the most popular girl in school for reasons that weren't exactly the kind schools reward. Most popular girl in school, but for the wrong reason. Oh, really?
I never was the cheerleader. I never really got voted for anything. I wore a lot of makeup.
I wore real tight clothes and I wore my hair all, you know, a mile high. That was uh Well, those don't sound like the wrong reasons, Dolly. Well, but I'm just saying I look Sound like the right reasons.
I looked like the real trash that a lot of the girls were. I mean, I Dolly has never been shy about the cost of her own look. On her TV show, she read out an ad promising to make anyone look just like her.
for I saw an ad the other day that said, "You too can look like Dolly Parton for only $500. " Boy, I wish I'd have seen that ad before I dished out the millions. It caused me to look like Dolly Parton.
[applause] Asked if she could do the same chest bouncing trick as Katie Kurrick's dancers. Dolly revealed Arnold Schwarzenegger had actually taught her how. Then she gave it a try.
And you asked her if she could do it and she couldn't. I don't know if I could or not, but Arnold taught me how to do that. uh when we was doing here.
So, let me see now. I I don't know if I can get them going. They clam up on me everywhere.
But once they start going, [cheering] you got that. Is it going? I don't know.
I don't know. My husband's going to kick my head. On prime time country, Dolly revealed her microphones weren't exactly where you'd expect and invited the host to talk to one of them directly.
And I got a mic. Excuse me. [laughter] Anyway, let's get off that and get on to something.
No, no, let them speak. [laughter] Well, all right. They're mics.
So, you talk into the lesson. I think it's leading your way there. And that's a wrap on the moments that prove nobody could handle Dolly Parton's charming energy.
