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You know, joe -- they were avoiding the big question here. how do you relieve yourself in zero gravity. i dont want to get hit in the face with someone elses poop. >> what i found interesting when you google virgin and space travel the first thing that comes up with the "star trek" convention. greg: that is classic joke writing. >> i should have gotten more from you people. the first thing i thought of was the diaper. greg: you have to think it in zero gravity. >> they also wear the diaper when ...

Yeah. you know, joe -- they were avoiding the big question here. how do you relieve yourself in zero gravity. i dont want to get hit in the face with someone elses poop. >> what i found interesting when you google virgin and space travel the first thing that comes up with the "star trek" convention. greg: that is classic joke writing. >> i should have gotten more from you people. the first thing i thought of was the diaper. greg: you have to think it in zero gravity. >> they also wear the diaper...

You know, joe -- they were avoiding the big question here. how do you relieve yourself in zero gravity. i dont want to get hit in the face with someone elses poop. >> what i found interesting when you google virgin and space travel the first thing that comes up with the "star trek" convention. greg: that is classic joke writing. >> i should have gotten more from you people. the first thing i thought of was the diaper. greg: you have to think it in zero gravity. >> they also wear the diaper when ...

You know, joe -- they were avoiding the big question here. how do you relieve yourself in zero gravity. i dont want to get hit in the face with someone elses poop. >> what i found interesting when you google virgin and space travel the first thing that comes up with the "star trek" convention. greg: that is classic joke writing. >> i should have gotten more from you people. the first thing i thought of was the diaper. greg: you have to think it in zero gravity. >> they also wear the diaper when ...

Innovative and more of a pioneer. the fact that he own the it and made a weird windows joke was an extra-nice point. >> you dont use windows? >> i used to but i grew up. >> did you ever work on one of these speeches? >> yeah, i was our token funny person at the white house. the way i put it, as opposed to most speeches, joke-writing was a team effort, but if it had been badly, there were four years it would have been my fault. >> how did you go from working for president obama to working at funn...

That he noticed all the bs. >> right exactly. >> and sometimes youre watching it because hes no drama obama and this president is very cool sometimes you think does he know -- and hes like yes, i know. >> i have been listening to everything you have been saying and i am -- you know he does do it in such -- its class syy the way he does it and its funny. the key is that it is really funny and we all -- come on you have to love the guy. >> im hoping given that were in the last couple of years of t...

Forgetting up on the west coast. >> amen. >> so head writer sounds like a frooem dream job. tell us, how did you get it? >> its kind of a convoluted story. it is a dream job. i always watched the "dick vandyke" show and saw rob petri as the writer of and i fantasized about that. i was in philadelphia working in advertising. but i always wanted to write jokes and be a comedy writer. i actually believe it or not took a correspondent course in joke writing. for a number of years i wrote for comics ...