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Somebody binds you to them. Comedians dont have a great mortality rate. We lose a lot of people comedian. Im feeling more personal because i know the farc. Mm hmm. I dont drink anymore. I had to quit because i really drank man. I get pulled over by the cops. Id be so drunk id be out dancing to their lights thinking ive made it to another club. In a way laughter is a bizarrely intimate thing. Theres such an uncontrolled physical response. Its very similar biologically to orgasm. Stage someone made you laugh even once you have an affection for that person. Comedian is like your friend. Thats what the job of a comedian is to come on stage and in 60 seconds make friends with a room full of people. Actors theyre geniuses never quite telling us who they are. But comedians getting inside our heads. Its very personal. Theres an intimacy to comedy, so that when theyre gone, you miss it. You have your girlfriend or your wife called you from another room, and shes like sweetie, and then, like the immediately you go oh, what is she want . Because comedians are open and honest. You get a real feel for who they are and what theyre like. So when theyre gone, its like sucks. The Academy Award winning actor and comedian Robin Williams. The world are reacting tonight to the terrible news just in to cnn. Is that actor Robin Williams is dead at the age of 63 apparent suicide. I was in new york city, and some guy stuck a microphone in my face and said, so, did you hear about Robin Williams . And i was like what . And he said well, he died. And my first thought was no, he didnt. Nice to have you here. Youre a little late. We have to go back and start at the beginning. We had a quick thing. Ill show you theres really like a black hole over here because the energy and the creativity and the love that came out it was like a star burning out. Look, look, look. Live at five live at five. What made robins special where i saw it was the uso tour where he had more energy than anyone could possibly have the embassy soon as we hit the tarmac, hes out the door and hes running up to people and hes being robin. He wasnt always that guy. But boy, he knew how important that guy was to them. If heaven exists, what would you like to hear . God say when you arrive at the pearly gates. Theyre sitting near the front. Or just a nice havent existed . No, theres laughter. That would be a good thing. I havent been hit hard with any comedians death because im grateful we had the opportunity. For them to leave behind what they left behind, so i cant be sad or fall apart. Its like wow, look at the gift that was left mr blue. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Youre beautiful. Youre beautiful. Thank you. John belushi was really remarkable. Watch on stage because you couldnt take your eyes off of him. And he had this extraordinary power. A lot of miles training for that day, and i found a lot of donuts. Attractive donuts taste good and theyve got the sugar. I need to get me going in the morning. John was very much like his comedy. It was on the edge, and it pushed the envelope. Thought id be the first to go. Was one of those live fast. Die young leave a good looking corpse type , you know . Well, i guess they were wrong. Here they are. This is not ready for primetime cemetery. I was in high school when john belushi died. Im not sure why, but i was devastated. I cried as a as a as a teenager. Death is a drag and terrible bargain to come into the world and youve got to die at the end. I think its like, well, who thought this Up City Steakhouse serves the best beef in town theyre sensual setting will set the mood for any romantic rendezvous. Oh here that a. Its not hyperbole to say that if you walked in a room and chris farley was there, you would leave that room and say that is the funniest person thats ever lived. Impact he left. Nobody could ever feel that nobody else could do that. And i think thats the beautiful thing about laughter. If somebody made you laugh, youll remember that forever. Phil hartman was my closest friend at center in life, and he had the greatest instrument of any comedian ive ever worked with. Im just a caveman. I fell in some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists. Your world frightens and confuses me. Name on snl was the glue. He held everything together. So for sketch was horrible. Put phil hartman in it, and itll elevated behind many friends and fans of comic actor phil hartman are grief stricken this morning. Police believe he was shot by his wife, who then shot herself in their california home. Lots of film was a huge shock to the system. It was a bad marriage, but no one thought it was going to resolve itself that tragically in that horrifyingly when these people go, even if we dont know them personally, we feel like weve lost a friend because weve lost someone whos really made us laugh, and thats what a friend does. Are you on . Good king wenceslas. No im sorry, lee. No, its not working. You dont know what im up against here. I wouldnt. I wouldnt rehearse an actor in shakespeare the way you people work here. No im sorry. Please. Its his fault with him. Yes you fire sorry people are pests. I had no money is worth this. People need asked me what he was like i said, just think of the best. John kenny, you can imagine he was actually like that and more. Touched everybody. I. I dont know if its just that you could see into a soul because he was so vulnerable. You could see him in planes, trains and automobiles and know what a beautiful dramatic actor he was. Next time. Lets go first class. Alright god, i hope there isnt a next time. What you mean. I really do. Happy holidays. There was a scene at the end, and john had a speech about his life and i wept. I mean, i saw this scene like six times close as i am to you, and i was so moved every time he was so genuine. He was bigger than life grander than life and so adorable so funny. I suppose it might mean something for you to think that Someday Somebody says john candy, everybody smiles. That would be nice. That would be nice. Then youve done it, then youve done your job. This History Of Comedy Marathon is presented by wells fargo, presenting sponsor of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize. Watch exclusively on cnn this sunday, march 26th at eight. P. M. Eastern. Has donated 390 million really mine, honey, like i said, youve got your own room. To support Housing Affordability solutions. For families across america. When a bank does what it says. More people can find a place to call their. Doing gets it done. 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He goes on the tight show. Does this set and catches fire . Carson brings him over already. Thats another, like, oh, this is incredible. Then they go to commercial. They come back again. They bump the guest to talk more with this young comedian. You know, theres no greater thrill for me. Firstly to have somebody come out here and unknown and absolutely wiping out the first appearance. Coast to coast. Thats great. He had a sitcom so fast he became kind of the template for what you wanted to achieve if you were stand up comic at that time, mommy, what took you so long . Ive been waiting for your call. Are you surprised . My lover . Oh, hi, mr peterson. Success coming early in life and quickly destroys a lot of people, but you just seem to grow and handle it better than almost anybody. I know. Well uh , i was lucky. You know, a couple of good accidents happened. Prince the 22, year old star of televisions chico and the man shot himself in the head today and an apparent Suicide Attempt classic Cautionary Tale of Show Business. And when you become that famous that fast at the age of 20, its like throwing a child into the world of fame and money without anybody to help navigate the seas. Theres nothing about that. That makes any sense. Its sad. Its tragic, and thats how life is. It doesnt make any sense in sad and tragic, and thats where the comedy is. You know you cant please all the people all the time. And last night, all those people were at my show. Mitch hedberg is i . I believe one of the great comedians of all time. If you look at what hes writing on the page, its almost like comedic haiku comes to racism. People say i dont care if theyre black, white, purple or green. Hold on now. Purple or green. You gotta draw the line somewhere. I like rice. Rice is great when youre hungry, and you want to 1000 or something. One time a guy handed me a picture of me. So heres a picture of me when i was younger. Every picture is of you when you were younger. Hedberg is like joke, macgyver. Hes handing you the ingredients in the setup, and youre like this isnt an airboat, and its not going to rescue us macgyver. But then it does. Thats the fun. Its like a very absurd bait and switch. I think bigfoot is blurry. Thats the problem. Its not the photographers phone. People are dying at thirties. You dont even get to see them flourish and it is a rip off. Youre like, man. I wish i could hear how they process the world today. I love you guys. Thanks for coming to my special. A nice mixed crowd. I mean, look what we got. We got white folks. We got black folks. We got puerto ricans. Puerto ricans. Puerto rican. When i moved to new york i see something ive never seen in my life before, which is Street Performers doing Stand Up Comedy in Washington Square park , One Of The Best charlie barnett. There was this power about him and he was so fluid with his body and draw four or 500 people around him and do shows for four hours. I do a lot of ethnic humor, but dont get me wrong because i know from within my heart. Theres only one race the human race. Talking about mexicans. Charlie didnt have material. But he had energy. He went on and blew the roof off. To be honest, i dont have sex anymore. Im scared of aids. I took the aids test. I got a 65. At least i passed. In 1980 charlie was hired on Saturday Night Live and he was fired because he was illiterate and couldnt read the cue cards and guess who they hired in this place. Eddie murphy. He was just like a real new york street character like a tragic homeless. He had eight he was a crack addict, but through it all, he was always an amazing performer. Hello im harris. Im 33 years young. I have my cousin jasons truck for two more weeks. I have one testicle. Welcome all accident and im down to clown harris. We know who you are literally inspired you always this that job thats crazy, right . Paris whittles was so talented he was doing stand up. He was doing improv. He was doing sketches. Hes in a band, he wrote for a sitcom his unique , lovable personality transcends even his jokes in order dorado order to say no like in australia, and just say all the vowels nice is that guy surfing . You got me again co can huge, just naturally funny guy who had a problem with drugs. I dont think you know that i started shooting heroin. You didnt. Are you ready to talk about this . I mean, now that its shooting heroin, i could die. And i dont wanna do that to my parents dont want to do that to myself, so im taking it more seriously now. And im in a good place. Youre making our lives better. Thank you. You are a part of a tapestry that is bigger than you. Yes, Somebody Just texted me the word harris. And thats a thats a sad situation. When youre like thats all that somebody needs to say. And youre like, oh, boy. Its a weird world to live in. When you know people that can get the one name Death Announcement because you worry about so many people that are in our world. Its a tight knit community. So when one person dies, it is particularly um just kind of heartbreaking battle between good and evil, and a lot of comedians is powerful and sadly , as youll find from many of these artists, evil wins out a lot of the time. Its terrorists calling from heaven. Ah its pretty great up here. Its beautiful for starters. Its it is very cloudy and you you said on them, so thats cool. Gotta go scream buffet. Most knows the first step to motivation. Inspiration got new. Everything new flooring, new paint new patio sets. New pillows can keep going. If you want me to. You got this. We got you. The leaks. Gorilla waterproof patch in seal spray seals out water, air and moisture stops and prevents leaks indoors. 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That comedy is the realization of your own mortality. Laughter is an involuntary response. That to me is one of the great joys of comedy. Yes darling, mr death or something hes come about the reaping death is a essential to comedy. I dont know if anythings funny if we were living in some sort of infinite world, its a certain degree of gallows humor, but at the same time man. Thats a better way to go out. I im gilda radner and, uh, okay now. I aspired to be. Gilda radner. I fell in love with gilda radner. She played my mom in a Tv Commercial when i was a kid. Walker wa wa. She was just a great combination of being free in her performing but also insanely vulnerable, which is a fantastic combination to radnor. Everybody. She just delighted you. There are very few people like that. So the idea that she was sick and struggling people were devastated. Dont dont dont milk the applause like that. Its im sorry, gary. I havent been on television for a while. Yeah what was wrong . I had cancer. What did you have . She had a hesitation as to whether or not she wanted to be on. Its Garry Shandlings show because she was sick, and she was afraid that the audience would recognize or remember her. But the reason she did was because she felt her comedy was her only weapon she had against the cancer. I feel very lucky. I have a wonderful job. I have the opportunity to performer to test anything i want to or come up with ideas or and get to fulfill anything i want to pretend and there arent many jobs like that. I have not done anything yet. Youre giving me a headache. Pretty fieldis one of those women that more people in general should know about tony fields, lost a leg and was still doing comedy. Can you give me a hand . Schmuck i need a foot. Have been on television 1000 times with two legs, so she had to address it, and she actually turned it into great comedy. After you get your head in the right perspective, you realize that, um you have two legs and if you lose one, so youve lost the leg, but you really only have one sense of humor. Do you know, sweetheart . What be you the pleasure of a second wife. You have to be real with your situation when were not afraid to be vulnerable. Thats courageous. Its courageous. I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that i started to think. That may be my boobs. Overheard me. Never just like were sick of this. Lets kill her. Before i was diagnosed with cancer. I had lost my mother and i had this potentially deadly intestinal disease and nothing was striking me. Thats funny. And then i got diagnosed with cancer, and they started maniacally laughing. No oh, now i get it. This is hilarious, actually. Like all great artists. Somehow theyre able to have a third person perspective on the drama of their life, and thats what we love about. Great comedians like tick. Do not tempt me. Laughter takes there and everything. And for my hbo special halfway through, i took my shirt off and revealed my double missed ectomy scars. When you laugh at a joke about death. Its funny, considering the source. Youre making a joke about death. The thing thats definitely going to happen to you. Almost full monty. Monty python was at the aspen comedy festival, and it was one of the first times where they were all gathered together since Graham Chapman died, and they came out and the joke was brought his urn , so Graham Chapman couldnt be there. I think thats the most appropriate way to mourn a comedian. I dont think any comedian wants to be taken seriously in death. It almost feels like a betrayal. Its part of the code of comedy. We were doing a show in, uh in bristol. And we were doing a matinee there. And for some extraordinary reason, the audience just didnt laugh. And after about, oh, now up to 40 off. You found the one now find the ring sales diamond store. 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Thats kind of cruel man got into a smoker and coughing at him. You go up to cripple people dancing to you. Comedians that you feel that weve lost too quickly. We feel that loss because they were saying something that was unsayable up until them hear Something Weird happens this time bush lost cool. Ask me where i stood politically, you know, its not that i disagree with bushs Economic Policy or his foreign policy. That i believe he was a child of satan here to destroy the planet earth. Yeah im a little little little less there. I was. We need to talk about the Mount Rushmore of comedy. Bill hicks is my favorite comedian of all time. The funny was a background to the fact that that actually have thoughts that i need to share with you and i need to connect with you. That truth. General america wasnt ready for was so acerbic and show out there, but it was hysterical, flag burning thing god did that bring up some retarded emotions. People going. Hey, buddy. Let me tell you something. My daddy died for that flag. I bought mine. He was courageous. He was ballsy. He knew why he was put on this earth waiting for the next bill hicks is probably a fools errand. I dont know if there ever will be another one. You dont understand. I aint scared of you, mother. Bernie mac literally introduces himself to the world of comedy by saying i had scared of you, mother. Just like oh, were here now. I love sex. I love it cant do no more and im blessed. If i pull my this whole room, get dark. It was not a game with bernie mac. He got discovered a little bit older, so youve been around and by the time he gets a shot on def jam, he becomes an instant legend. You dont know. No, i cant believe kids. Everybody talking about kids. Everybody talking about how big he is in. You know its bad, but you cant say kids bad i said for you. I will get up. Ernie welcomes you in his life to really tell the story that my sister was a junkie and i had to take her babies and to make it funny. How amazing is that that smoke, so thats good cigar smoke their ball, but i aint here to talk about cigars. Im here to tell you that okay, well, one of them kids. Bernie mac was such an original voice to and just instantly likable and screen just missed. We have a lot of wars coming. Definitely going to war with north korea, that angry little psycho midget that rules north korea. Anytime you have a short, little miserable bastard like that, running a country with his High Heel Shoes and his bouffant hairdo. You know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon Complex and north korea. Greg toronto. Just a brilliant mind. You can almost hear the synapses fireman giraldo like an intense Guy Energetically but like went to Harvard Law School like a really great brain. Seriously youre not the only one here all these rubber faced monsters. What the how much worse could your real face look than that clown mask . Youve had welded on your head. You used to look your age now you dont even look your species. The first time i saw him perform. I was like, oh, stand up is a sport. He was so intense and he was so quick. He didnt wait for anyone to laugh. This guy right . So many jokes before the show. Its not even funny. Its unbelievable. Its kind of what we do here. Dennis comedy right . Not a guy in school that did all the homework and then asked if there was any more that needed to be done. Thats thats a good point. And if you had tried a little comedy writing, maybe your show would still be on the air. I first got to know greg doing tough crowd is takes on the topics were more insightful, more concise, plenty er than anything i could come up with. Loved it. What was so great about greg, which would be really helpful today is an intellectual contrarian Working Class point of view. Will there ever be a candidate that can relate to both races . Keep trying to paint dean as having race issues. I mean, you know, he cant possibly be racist. Hes from vermont, for christs sake, and you cant really hate black people until youre around them a lot. I feel bad for white dudes. Man cant be racist. Im walking through harlem. I kind of lost right now. But i. I see a few black guys walking towards me, but i cant run if i start running now. Call me a racist. Run, stupid run patrice and it was a combination of crowd pleasing personality with very biting material. He was really funny, and he was loud. He was like, shut up like that type of just obnoxious loud, but you couldve sapa treat with any comedians, and he would have been as funny as any of them in the room were like sport fisherman. Thats what men are you catch it. You show your friends. Then you release it, but a lot of women in here you have boyfriends or husbands. You were fish that jumped back on the boat. Happened looking at me like i was wondering if youre going to be fishing here again next week, like as a feminist. I didnt really want to enjoy his comedy, and then i watched elephant in the room. I was like its true that was despite if i agree with him or not, or want to own up to the way i act as a woman, and that scenario, he nailed it. With my days are numbered. You know what i mean . Im 40 and, uh, thats young and everyone else years, but, uh, in black years, you know. With black to white life ratio. Im 100. And 77 years. He was able to speak to audiences, unlike any other comedian and stuff was so conversational, but he was saying so many important things we missed out on what he had to say about obama. And what do you say about trump . You need that voice. Do you think see, youre going to mellow and sort of older age. I doubt im never gonna make old rage. Bill hicks and these guys were a voice of a generation that just got snuffed out. It seems like theres something about this business that takes the life out of you. The degree that comics have gone away. Its just rarefied here. 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Closed captioning is brought to you by skechers glide step flex. Just walk when you can glide in sketches, ultra comfortable glide step flex, but where every step feels like youre floating skechers premium cushioning for extra comfort. Skechers. Glad step flax. What i find interesting in terms of gone too soon is not as much those comedians who died but those who quit doing stand up forever. David woody allen, eddie murphy, steve martin, all these people were immensely respected. Stand ups started yet okay, then lets go. I think a lot of stand up comedians have an ambivalent relationship with Stand Up Comedy. Its almost like a Stepping Stone for those people like they had Something Else on their minds. She always fill up the balloons upwards and if they pop the goal. Steve martin quit doing stand up at the height of his fame. It was over about a year before i stopped. I wasnt being creative in it anymore, and i didnt really know how to write for such a big audience. I spent 150 for a tape recorder. And as i talk into it, it goes. I know, i know. Very shy person. He was the last person in the world you would think would become a performer so as soon as he was able to leave, stand up for movies he did every time i try and do something serious people. People laugh at me, which would be a problem if i tried to do a serious movie ever, you know, and i would like to make a movie where i was real serious, innit comedians that just walked away from stand up became movie stars from the cans. I mean, thats the common denominator. Ah jesus christ. Find out some white kids can curse around the house that was in the house with tom killed our mother. Mother, tommy, your little lady said come on, mom. Im moving as fast as i can. Come on. And i was standing like this. Then he was a rock star. Eddie hits so big because of sand live. Eddie was just chipping away and coming. We dont know how already could have been your writing and acting and everything right there on the stage to write your own show you gotta presented. You got to perform and everything, but its worth it. If it works, is it, its worth it if it if it works. A lot of comedians who leave stand up too soon. Larry david couldnt leave stand up soon enough. I bombed so many times. I wasnt really a very good comedian. In my in my book. The material i was doing. The audience didnt seem to like it. On mass. Yeah i think weve come to the end of the line here. You know, this is what happens when you run out of nothing. Thank you very much. Good night. Its hard to say if anything is ahead of its time. I think when people are innovative, sometimes its hard to get that audience for the first time. There was a period where every show i did would get canceled in the middle of the first season, and it sucks. What do you want the truth. When do you want it . Now give me a t. T give me an r. Give me a you give me a t t give me your name switch that spell the truth. Alright you got it . Thats great. Thank you. No further questions the ultimate revenge for the stiller show is that it won the emmy after it had been announced that it was being canceled. Use our show as an example in their meetings as what they dont want to do on the fox network with the employment of estrogen hormonal therapy. Have developed the ability to breastfeed. I remember my mind being blown with things like the Dana Carvey Show some of the greatest Sketch Comedy ever done on television. Wheres who are nauseated by food . Is i think one of the purest sketches ever done. Food is flounder. Oh, its sauteed in them. Oh spicy butter sauce is served out a better steam leaks. Dana carvey show is a great example of these shows that gather a lot of amazing people together. That didnt quite click in that moment for whatever reason, but another way to look at it. Like what if that show had kept going corral and colbert and all these different great performers might not have given us so much great work. Its a little bike saying, you know, a blinking is dry goods store gone too soon. If only like. No, no, no, no, we needed him. We needed him for other stuff. My first guest has a special tonight on nbc. Welcome steve martin. Hi, david. How are you . Oh yeah. I was doing that this morning. David letterman had his morning show nobody had ever seen a guy like this at this time of day. Right there, you saw basically the incipient stages of the irreverence. Huge tankful eliminate and what it looks like minnows and things full of minnows minnows. My idea of a joke. The only reason we were getting all that stuff on the air was that we were just putting it on the air because we were already on the air. I read the nbc research and if we would have had more sex, more violence on the show. I think we would have done better right from the start. They talked about being canceled a lot, which you hadnt seen before. On tv host really mocking their failure. Ladies and gentlemen. I am sorry that this program is going to disappear because it was something it was Something Different and something adventurous and something really courageous and daytime television and unfortunately none of these shows ever got bad any show that gets canceled prematurely or abandoned prematurely. You leave a sexy corpse. They all become james dean bingbing. I quit. You remember them as they were young and handsome. They never age. Hey, you know, i never approved this. Nobody ever listens to me around here. Im not dangerous. At least i wasnt dangerous. Ah introducing new sweet and savory crepes for a limited time. Buy one get one free. With five flavors that are delicious any time of day only from ihop food with every order. Late blades blades. 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Comedy doesnt have an age you could die at 125. If you are a great comedian whos still bringing it. You did die too young or wrong. I dont want the colored guy to butt in. Dont wreck those. I dont think i could have had that career now. Because now any bad thing, you two you go. Oh thats uh he shouldnt be saying that. When he died, he took an era of Show Business with him. My day. Having a child was better rivers. You had a girl. Good good. She normal . Yeah. Good. Right . Yeah. The only communities have ever been intimidated by his generous Jones A Machine On Stage and she did it before it was easy when women were not permitted to talk a certain way on television. The marriage was in trouble since the wedding night. Really yeah. A lot of men smoke afterwards to smoke during, and thats asked me for a light. Isnt that incredible . Get it yourself in the dashboard. Joan was undaunted. She was just determined to succeed and keep succeeding her rule about life that its all a big joke, and were here for a second like that really stayed with me. I could die any moment. Now. You know how lucky you guys would be. You were there . Yeah. Whos lying there they face didnt move. We thought, well, botox, her jokes and her style will be here forever. Because when you do something great a little piece of you will always continue to go on the worst thing about being in the hospital. Is that they shave you. I mean, they shave everything you know, and i was just visiting a friend of mine. Sorry shanley was not afraid to express his frailties. Euros is inabilities. All the teas okay. He broke the fourth wall with this Scary Xianming show and with larry sanders, he broke that mold to he turned tv on its head twice. Cultural well, so do i. You do . Youre so good at trust me. I hate myself. So much of modern Television Comedy can be traced back to a lot of the chances. Gary took it still doesnt add up for me that hes gone. It doesnt make sense. Not having his voice doesnt feel right. Even long before i met him, he felt like a comedic friend. To me. All my journey is to be authentically who i am not a mentor to a lot of people he almost seemed like he was floating through the world a little bit like he was there to help. What i wanted. My funeral is an actual Boxing Referee to do account and at five, just wave it off and say hes not getting up the reason that garys death is a crime is not just because i dont get to talk to him anymore. But he wasnt done wasnt done for himself. Not for us. The whole key to coming through life for anybody is a sense of humor. There is some life force involved in seeing the world. Not so seriously. Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldnt want to in the first place . Carlin didnt die necessarily young, but they seemed young because his thoughts never stopped. Just creativity never stopped. It wasnt like an old person dying, he reinvented himself every decade to appeal to whatever was required by the flavor of Show Business without selling out, guys. Let me tell you something. Youre never going to be as cool as black guys. Gonna happen. Youre white. And youre lame. For my epitaph. I would like one or two things. He was just here a minute ago or too hip for the room. Two hip to the room. I have some issue with gone too soon we go. Everybody goes and it always stinks. So carlin was old. But youre still like, hey , that was too soon. You dont ever want it to end. You get a feeling after playing all over the country, you just see the people number one had a kind of cathartic thing. That was worth it. When you saw people just coming up and saying, i havent laughed that hard in a long time. People need it, and its thats the purpose of going out and doing it. Comedians at their best. What theyre providing is a very life affirming experience. The minute you laugh, you do feel better. It sounds like a cliche, but its true. For all our craziness. We do leave it better than we found it. We do bring some joy for whatever selfish reasons. Its a noble profession. Happy i am we just keep moving on. We dont know what were doing here and then you allow me to make you laugh is tremendous and im blessed to be part of it terribly missed the minimum that have gone before me. Ill be going now. The fact that you have touched more people than you would have. If you did not do stand up. Thats amazing. I guess that were all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent such kindness should now so suddenly be Spirited Away before hed achieved many of the things which he was capable. Well, i feel that i should say nonsense. Good riddance to him. The freeloading bastard. Can i just say for the record if i die in any way thats funny or interesting. Nothing is too soon go for it about my death all the time. I tell my friends the day i die. I dont want anybody that loved me to go to work. We had a wake for phil and i got up and just said i think i said, i think i speak for a lot of people here. When i say i just i cant believe its not andy. Thats dead. I was in shock, and i just kept saying, can you believe that brynn murdered phil and john lovitz went . Oh, come on, youre making it sound worse than it was. I was like holy jon lovett. We laughed for a half an hour and nobody would have found that funnier than phil hartman. Here we go, pivot. Get back. Shut up shut up shut up i feel like we