| The TRAVIS and JONATHAN SHOW invites you to MEET OUR CAST! |
| (Craig and Jonathan nestle into a comfortable wooden porch swing. It's a beautiful summer's day. Jonathan turns on his tape recorder.) JONATHAN: Okay. Okay. So Craig. CRAIG: Yeah, what about it? JONATHAN: I understand that you just took a very important trip. CRAIG: Sure did. JONATHAN: Now where did you go? CRAIG: I went to LA. Hollywood. J: And who did you… did you go out there with... C: Hup. J: ...friends? C: Uh, one. One. Chris. You know Chris. Chris Simpson J: Chris Simpson. C: Yes. Uh huh. Yes. Yup. J: Here, let me move that ashtray C: You do that. J: Okay, so you went out there with Chris Simpson. C: Yup yup yup. J: And was he nice? C: Excellent. He was excellent, yeah, very nice. Yeah, I'd say very nice, yeah. J: What was the most exciting thing about your trip? C: Well let me see if I can remember. A whole lot there, in fact. (exhales) Hell. Going to the first Tower Records that there ever was, all right? J: Mm hm. C: On Sunset. Then we went, Price is Right, had tickets for, tried to get in there, CBS Studio Parking Lot, the guards make you park the car, get out, got to search it before you go in, in the parking lot, allright? Head on up there, and wow. Got knocked out of seeing the Price is Right, it’s taped at 2 o’clock PM I think. Two, yeah two o’clock. Okay, out there at 10:30 I think, 10:30 to 11 o’clock out there, bus of marines came in and knocked us out of it. Then we just went around and searched around, just drove, actually, just roaming around, allright? J: Did you, uh... C: Like we did when we got there, allright? J: So you didn’t get to see The Price is Right? J: No we didn’t, but we ended up at NBC and got to see Jay Leno. In there! J: Who were the guests on the Tonight… C: Uh… Uh.. the Tonight Show was Dame Edma, Edmund, I know that… And I forgot the others, actually. J: You forgot them? C: Yeah. For-got, really. Yep. J: Was there a musical guest? C: There was, but I forgot who that was, too. J: Did, ah, did you get to meet Jay Leno? C: No I didn’t. Not meet him personally, but he comes out and talks to you, oh, for about, oh, I’d say fifteen minutes before the show starts, in his blue jeans and you know, works you up, all right? Tells jokes, excellent. (On the street beside Jonathan and Craig, a small child races a remote controlled car.) J: Did, ah, look at that car, what is that? C: I don’t know, What is it? J: I don’t know. C: Model T, no doubt. J: Did you get to, ah, did you get to, ah... C: Did you get to WHAT? J; (laughs) C: (laughs) Say it! Think about that! What the hell you saying? Sombebody. Balance this mother****er out right here is what I’m doing. J: You got to talk to Jay Leno but you did not get to meet him. Do you remember any jokes he told? C: Nope. Can’t recall a one of ‘em. J: Did you, ah… C: They gave a bunch of, hey listen, they threw out crap to the audience, all right, they threw out beads and crap to the audience, okay. J: What about the…beads? Like mardi gras? C: Yeah, threw out a lot of crap, some stuff I didn’t know what it was. No, Night Show, what is it, Late Night with Jay Leno logo sh*t, threw it out. Some little balls, baseballs, sh*t like that J: What about the, ah, ah, didn’t you say you met someone? From Vanderbilt [University]? C: Well, at the guest relations, at the studio store, right. J: Did she hook you up? J: Yes she did, she fixed us right on up C: Was she she attractive? J: Yes, beautiful, a beautiful woman, no doubt. No doubt. C: And she fixed you up… C:: With Tonight Show tickets! Really. And, she told us what and when to do it, and we were there. J: What about the Craig Kilborn tickets? |
| AN INTERVIEW with FAN FAVORITE CRAIG DAVIDSON |
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Is any member of the Travis and Jonathan Show cast more beloved than Craig Davidson? Probably not. JONATHAN SHOCKLEY recently sat down with Craig (Travis was in the backyard playing Tee Ball with his niece) and chatted about Los Angeles, Leno, and the United States Marine Corps! |
| C: Ah well, we got those, somebody on Hollywood Boulevard, we went out there to see the whattayacall it, Chinese Theatre. Well, the Kodak Theatre we saw, ‘swhere the, ah, whattayacall it, ah, um, ah hell, what’re they called, not Oscars but what, yeah, I guess the Oscars, are held. Every year. Disappointing to some degree, because the Kodak Theatre is no more than just a mall like Hickory Hollow with a little theater, it isn’t all that much to it, well pretty large, but not that large, in the middle of it. Period. J: What was your favorite part of the trip? C: Ah, driving in that dadgum, well, driving in some LA traffic was pretty nifty. I loved that. Where ya gotta bob 'n' weave all the time. They drive like you should drive. Not draggin' ass, but movin' on, all right? J: Were you scared? C: No. Hell no. Mm-mm. No. J: Did you, ah, get to see any beautiful California girls? C: Ahhh, bunches. Right. J: Did you talk to any of em C: No. Well, some, I guess I’d say hi, you know, stuff like that, hot women all over the place. No doubt. J: Where did you stay? C: Sheraton Gateway. It’s about five minutes from LAX. For real. Rented us a PT Crusier and just cruised all over Hollywood and LA. Really. (pause) J: What was I... C: Well I’m all ears so let’s hear it. Whatever. J: ...trying to remember. C: Allright. J: I’m not very prepared for this interview. C: I’m not either. Hell with it, is what I say. J: Wait. I want to... would you go back to Los Angeles? C: In a heartbeat. Right J: If there were any fans of the show in Los Angeles, what would you say to them? C: I would say hello, hello it’s me, right, and I haven’t seen them in a long long time. J: (Laughter) C: Allright, I'd say that. Get this mother here moving a little bit C & J: (Laughter) J: What about, where did you eat when you were in Los Angeles? C: Various places. I forgot where we ate. Ate cheap there at first, last day there we just blowed ‘em out, you know. No holds barred, right. J: Okay. Now what airline did you fly C: Southwest, of course, allright J: Did you , did they treat you well? C: Excellent! You know they did. Right. J: Mmkay. (Jonathan's foot drags the floor, slowing the momentum of the porch swing. This doesn't sit well with Craig.) C: Don’t be giving resistance to my dadgum shake here. J: Oh okay. C: My movements here, I’m trying to get some force built up here to rock us a little bit. J: Ah. Well that sounds like a fun trip out to LA. C: Yeah J: Are you sad you didn't get to go on The Price Is Right? C: No. not really. Not really. Nah. J:: Are you good at the game at home, do you play along? C: Yeah, fair, pretty good, yeah. I’ve been recording that on video tape ever since '75, since 1975. J: Oh. C: Really. J: Did you, when you went to The Tonight Show, did you get to go into the control room and see how they... C: Nope , no I did not, no. J: All right C: No seeing switchers for me, allright? J: Okay. Well, I guess that’s it. C: Okay. Is that it? J: I think that’s it for the interview. Unless there’s something else you’d like to say to the fans reading this on the website. C: I have no idea. Have no idea 'bout it, let’s see, what can I say, allright, ah hell, I don’t know. Uh, broadening, well i don't know, think of everything as a broadening experience, something like that. J: Okay, great, thank you. C: Broadening experience, does that sound right? No it doesn’t, sounds like a bunch of crap to me there. J: No, It sounds good. C: No it doesn’t. J: Okay. C: Whatever. J: Okay. Thank you. C: Yup. |
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| Craig Davidson on the pride of Hollywood: "THE KODAK THEATER IS NO MORE THAN JUST A MALL LIKE HICKORY HOLLOW WITH A LITTLE THEATER. DISAPPOINTING." |
| Craig Davidson on LA traffic: "They drive like you should drive. Not draggin' ass, but movin' on." |