Page 5 - Mo Howard News Today

i will go on stage, deliver the jokes, and maybe a manager or agent, the kind of people who used to hang out there, would like my material and give me a job. this is where richard pryor started and lily tomlin and others. the first date -- the first week of was working there, i met a guy who is also starting up. his name was billy crystal. he lived about 3 tons over from where my parents live. he had a little blue volkswagen, used to pick me up every night. drive into the city. we woul...

with my parents forever. i am go to work in this delicatessen forever. i took these jobs that these old guys would not apply for me, and i made it into a stand-up routine for myself. there were two big clubs in new york. i will go on stage, deliver the jokes, and maybe a manager or agent, the kind of people who used to hang out there, would like my material and give me a job. this is where richard pryor started and lily tomlin and others. the first date -- the first week of was working...

egos, u -- he goes, uh-huh, good. then he closes the book. i wrote 1100 jobs over two days, and he reads one joke. i wrote a jokes and the post office was about to issue a stamp commemorating prostitution in the united states. 10 cents, but if you want to lick it, it is a quarter. [laughter] he said, good. good. he said, tell me, how much money do you need to live on? i said, well, i am making $2.75 an hour at the deli. match it. [laughter] he said, well, tell me a little bit more abou...

with my parents forever. i am go to work in this delicatessen forever. i took these jobs that these old guys would not apply for me, and i made it into a stand-up routine for myself. there were two big clubs in new york. i will go on stage, deliver the jokes, and maybe a manager or agent, the kind of people who used to hang out there, would like my material and give me a job. this is where richard pryor started and lily tomlin and others. the first date -- the first week of was working...

good. then he closes the book. i wrote 1100 jobs over two days, and he reads one joke. i wrote a jokes and the post office was about to issue a stamp commemorating prostitution in the united states. 10 cents, but if you want to lick it, it is a quarter. [laughter] he said, good. good. he said, tell me, how much money do you need to live on? i said, well, i am making $2.75 an hour at the deli. match it. [laughter] he said, well, tell me a little bit more about yourself. acted it to mean...

check in with the mid-life experts for our sunday morning cover story. >> come on. were normal, comparatively normal. >> reporter: for comedian ray romano hitting mid life was a wake-up call. >> who is that lady who is always yelling at me? >> reporter: but does mid life always have to be a crisis? your numbers would suggest that the vast majority of people take this in stride. >> i would say they do. >> reporter: mid life crisis, fact or fiction later on sunday morning. >> osgood: tom...

cover story. >> come on. were normal, comparatively normal. >> reporter: for comedian ray romano hitting mid life was a wake-up call. >> who is that lady who is always yelling at me? >> reporter: but does mid life always have to be a crisis? your numbers would suggest that the vast majority of people take this in stride. >> i would say they do. >> reporter: mid life crisis, fact or fiction later on sunday morning. >> osgood: tom hanks is a busy actor/director who based on his own consi...

we asked our barry petersen to check in with the mid-life experts for our sunday morning cover story. >> come on. were normal, comparatively normal. >> reporter: for comedian ray romano hitting mid life was a wake-up call. >> who is that lady who is always yelling at me? >> reporter: but does mid life always have to be a crisis? your numbers would suggest that the vast majority of people take this in stride. >> i would say they do. >> reporter: mid life crisis, fact or fiction later on...

captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. im meredith vieira. >> im matt lauer. one official at british petroleum says he believes what were seeing coming out of the leaking oil well in the gulf is mud, no longer oil and gas. >> its brown in color, much different than what we saw before the top kill began wednesday afternoon. we want to give you a side-by-side view of the underwater camera. on the left, the live view of what looks li...

movie, it can make you sea sonic. >> it can give you headaches. >> like "avatar." could be a myth, could be reality. nancy snidyderman is going to stick around and talk about that. the facts about your eyes and the best way to take care of them on our daily dose. back here in 2007, we met jessica and cody. our wedding couple. they got married here on the plaza. theyre trying to settle in their home. they needed help. so nate burkis came to the rescue. they got a first look at the new...