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14 years for grooming teenagers and then forcing them to sell drugs in another city Zachary Mohammed admitted trafficking 3 children its the 1st time such a conviction has been secured under the modern slavery acts superintendent Richard A gars from West Midlands police he was extremely businesslike and deliberate in his activities so he befriended these children he grinned them but with one end in mind and that was to exploit them he didnt see them as individuals he saw them as as commodities ...

Funny. and then i got diagnosed with cancer, and i started miniakly laughing. this is hilarious, actually. >> somehow theyre able to have a third person perspective on the drama of their life and thats what we love about great comedians. >> do not tempt me. >> laughter takes the air out of everything. for my hbo special, halfway through i took my shirt off and revealed my double mastectomi scars. >> when you laugh at a joke about death, its funny considering the source. youre making a joke about...

>> "monty python" was at the aspen comedy festival, and it was one of the first times where they were all gathered today since graham chapman died. and they came out and the joke was they brought his urn so graham chapman could 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 would almost feel like a betrayal. its part of the code of comedy. >> so we were doing a show in bristol, and we were doing a matine...

And ill tell you where i was, watching that episode of "the flintstones" or "the jetsons." i always thought that those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said some day if i have my own tv show im going to do it different. >> in the 80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didnt have preconceived notions of what animation should or should not do. so there was a lot of breaking out of the three camera sitcom that you could do in animati...

>> before i was diagnosed with cancer, i had lost my mother, and i had this potentially deadly intestinal disease. and nothing was striking me as funny. and then i got diagnosed with cancer, and i started miniakly laughing. this is hilarious, actually. >> somehow theyre able to have a third person perspective on the drama of their life and thats what we love about great comedians. >> do not tempt me. >> laughter takes the air out of everything. for my hbo special, halfway through i took my shirt...

You. >> and now, ladies and gentlemen, the almost full monty. >> monty python was at the aspen comedy festival, and it was one of the first times they were all gathered today since graham chapman died. and they came out and the joke was they brought his urn so graham chapman could 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 would almost feel like a betrayal. its part of the code of comedy. >> so we we...

Jetsons. i always thought that those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said some day if i have my own tv show im going to do it different. >> in the 80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didnt have preconceived notions of what animation should or should not do. so there was a lot of breaking out of the three camera sitcom that you could do in animation, to quote monty python, make it up as you go along. >> is there any frontal nud...

National lampoon radio hour. >> the national lampoon radio hour was a syndicated radio show written and produced by "the national lampoon" which was the magazine in audio form. thats where i was first exposed to people that went on to much bigger fame, people like bill murray. a lot of the "saturday night live" people started out as national lampoon people. >> lets do 20 face laps. >> gilda and john did this show in this sort of weird space under the time life building. >> theyre the cast of the...

And i will tell you where i was. and i was watching that episode of the flintstones or the jetsons. i always thought that those tv shows could have been better. they were disappointing to me. i said some day if i have my own tv show im going to do it different. >> in the 80s there was a young crew of animators and a young crew of writers who didnt have preconceived notions of what animation should or should not do. so there was a lot of breaking out of the three camera sitcom that you could do i...

You know, people become dent sxifts they also become improv artists. ? with sketch comedy its the immediacy of it. its the daringness of it. going back to sid caesar on the beach with imogen coca and getting buckets of water thrown in his face. or you think "saturday night live" and julia child bleeding to death or the dead parrot sketch on monty python. >> paulie! >> it is very ephemeral, its over quickly, but if its great and it really worked you get this nice little memory, maybe a piece of v...