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"saturday night live" last night. 35 years after he was a cast member, he brought back the classics like buckwheat, gumby and even mr. robinson. >> so much has changed since we last spent some time together. my neighborhood has gone through so much. its gone through something called gentrification. can you say gentrification, boys and girls? its like a magic trick. white people pay a lot of money and then, poof, all the black people are gone. ♪ ♪

Ago i would be this boring staysta stay-at-home house dad and bill cosby would be in jail, even i would have took that bet. >> reporter: just 19 when he joined the cast in 1980, murphy credited with saving the show and last night -- >> ♪ a beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪ >> reporter: he brought back classic sketches likes "mr. robinsons neighborhood." >> my neighborhood has gone through something much. something called gentrification. can you say gentrification, boys and girls? its like ...

Survivor get into an argument about who had it worse. >> im saying we spent 42 days trying to survive. we had very little rations. no snacks. >> snacks? what are you talking, snacks? we didnt eat sometimes for a week, sometimes for a month. we ate nothing. >> i couldnt work out when we were over there. i certainly didnt have a gym. >> what? >> i wore my sneakers out and the next thing you know, im wearing flip-flops. >> flip-flops! >> we slept on the ground. >> that was larry david at his best, ...

>> you know, i found this, my name means something, and it means something to me. every team i was on became family. every time i would see a magic trick, the world quieted. i would see two, the world would be quiet and i would be the kid i wanted to be. during the day i would play football, which means i could hit you and not get in trouble, take our my aggression. more importantly it was about the owners or coaches or whatever person decided to have me on their team, i wanted them to hear my l...

Wearing flip-flops. >> flip-flops! >> we slept on the ground. >> that was larry david at his best, because he managed to find a subject that no one would find funny and make it hilarious and palatable. >> im a survivor! >> im a survivor! >> is there any taboo that you wouldnt break? >> not, not if there was a funny idea. >> its all about funny. >> yeah. >> so this is the magic trick, huh? >> illusion, michael. a trick is something a whore does for money. >> "arrested development" was absolutely ...

From the television show. >> the guy from "the survivor" tv show and the holocaust survivor get into an argument about who had it worse. >> im saying we spent 42 days trying to survive. we had very little rations. no snacks. >> snacks? what are you talking, snacks? we didnt eat sometimes for a week, sometimes for a month. we ate nothing! >> i couldnt even work out when i was over there. they certainly didnt have a gym. >> what? >> i wore my sneakers out and the next thing you know, ive got a pai...

Democracy. and i think it is every lawyers obligation to blow the whistle on that activity even inside the narrow technical statute or outside the statute. >> thats a really good way to think about it. theres also the fact that, you know, doj keeps creating this sort of -- almost feels like a magic trick with the law. brad heath had this good tweet where he says olc, because the whistle-blower reported wrongdoing by the president it shouldnt go to the house but to federal prosecutors. also olc, ...

Essentially watergate in the most profound sense. what watergate was about and what this is about is an attempt to corruptly distort the next presidential election. by different corrupt means but thats what its about and that strikes at the absolute core of democracy. and i think it is every lawyers obligation to blow the whistle on that activity even inside the narrow technical statute or outside the statute. >> thats a really good way to think about it. theres also the fact that, you know, doj...

Trying to survive. we had very little rations. no snacks. >> snacks? what are you talking, snacks? we didnt eat sometimes for a week, sometimes for a month. we ate nothing. >> i couldnt work out when we were over there. i certainly didnt have a gym. >> what? >> i wore my sneakers out and the next thing you know, im wearing flip-flops. >> flip-flops! >> we slept on the ground. >> that was larry david at his best, because he managed to find a subject that no one would find funny and make it hilari...

>> tucker: it does seem different under jeff. it does seem more political, dumber. the ratings are bad. >> they insist they are making more money than ever. they have some magic trick for making more money with lower ratings. the organization is a complete embarrassment. i was wondering whether we might be able to sue them for defamation of character or something. its a disgrace to have to admit. i worked there for 17 years, and i was in the news business. look at the place now. its a disgrace. ...