Although I’ve seen him hold a stage and talk to his fans for hours, Jerry Lewis’ famed dark side has been making more public appearances in recent years, whether he’s engaging in hostile interactions with the audience at his one-man shows or confirming that he still doesn’t think women can be funny. So an interviewer approaching him ought to come loaded for bear, knowing that there’s no way of knowing in advance which Lewis might choose to show up that day.

Based on this eight-minute video posted to the Hollywood Reporter’s site, Andy Lewis was only prepared for Happy Jerry, and that’s not what he got. Titled “The Most Painfully Awkard Interview of 2016,” the video shows a hostile Jerry shooting off monosyllabic answers as his interlocutor’s questions grow longer and more desperate, until an off-screen aide mercifully pulls the plug.

In the accompanying text, which refers to Jerry Lewis as “a well-known control freak,” the Reporter’s Lewis explains that his subject was immediately put off by the size of the publication’s video crew and began arguing with them over the setup of their shots, and by the time the cameras started rolling, he was clearly in no mood to cooperate. That said, it’s an interviewer’s job to make the subject comfortable and not the other way around—as the Reporter’s Scott Feinberg apparently did when he talked to Jerry Lewis in 2014—and blaming your subject for an interview gone bad is never a good look.

Should you have an aversion to painfully awkward exchanges and barely veiled hostility, we’ve taken the liberty of transcribing Jerry Lewis’ responses in their entirety. This doesn’t include the questions, but he’s not answering them anyway.

[contemptuous fake laugh]

“Why?”

“Why?”

“None.”

“’Cause we do it well.”

“It isn’t. Not at all.”

“By working at it.”

“Anyone that’s 90 does.”

“No.”

“No.”

“1947.”

“It’s not—it’s the same. Exactly the same.”

“Dusty cow town.”

“No.”

“No.”

“Nope. They’re still the same.”

“Some are younger.”

“You tell ’em you’re playing there, and they show up.”

“No.”

“What do you mean?”

“When my partner was alive.”

“Yup.”

“Yup.”

“I’ll show you some material. You’ll know.”

“It was teriffic.”

“Get a day job.”

“Mmm hmm.”

“What movie?”

“Yeah. I’m glad you remembered it.”

“It’s great.”

“You never forget.”

“Not at all.”

“Absolutely. We’re planning one now.”

“Mmm hmm.”

“Right. Yup.”

“No, just as hard.”

“If I tell you, you’ll be doing it.”

[contemptuous fake laugh]

“Mmm hmm.”

“Mmm hmm.”

“Yup. But nothing we wanna talk about.”

“No. None.”

“No. Not for this.”

“No.”

“All right, clean it outta here.”

Correction, Dec. 19, 2016: This post originally stated that the Hollywood Reporter referred to Lewis as “a well-known crank,” instead of “a well-known control freak.”