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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 new "national lampoon" show which opens this friday at the...

References. >> and the time, too. >> and yes, late at night, and the ethos of the cool rebellion whether it is true or not, and lorne michaels based the conset on the monty python and he said in u.k. they are doing it correctly, and we want that sty style. so if that had not been the sketch comedy, there would have been no omonty python or snl, and like the carol burnett and the red skelton show. >> thank you so much, kliph nesteroff and tune in for "history of comedy" airing only on cnn tonight...

That phrase did not exist or sketch comedy did not exist, but the art forms did exist. if that makes sense. >> and so, how have you seen both sketch and improve? >> well, everybody is influenced by what came before. and so once it was established, one generation feeds into the next. so if you were to go back and have some ettmology or archaeology of comedy, you would find that monty python is one of the most influential scripts of all time the. and the antithesis of the red skelton show or carol...

>> its extraordinary what you cant do on american television. i think you can do it on pbs. thats why -- i hope you all watch it. >> dont attack me with it! come on! >> oh! >> you get the generation of comedy nerds who dont even know that theyre comedy nerds. >> this is no more. it has ceased to be. >> "monty python" turned out to break so many rules. i mean, it changes everything. just like with the beatles, you can say, "oh, they came after the beatles." look at "saturday night live," you look...

Saying we need to be on the same page on this. all of the things that russia is doing that are completely unacceptable on the international realm and yet the president is going to talk to him about that. i would rather see the president talking to our allies and saying how are we going to control this. >> thanks so much for being with us. the language that the president used today, it is notable, specific and exactly what vladimir putin would like to here. thanks very much, gentlemen. >> so it s...

Fact what secretary of state condoleezza rice was doing at the apex of the death and destruction in new orleans. this was the original drudge report mention from that day back in 2005. "eyewitness, secretary of state condi rice laughs it up at spam alott while gulf coast lays in tatters. theatergoers on new york citys great white way were shocked to see the presidents former national security adviser at the monty python farce last night." that was in the drudge report. "new york daily news" adde...

Emergency services at north central bronx telling the paper tonight that she and her clinicians have felt helpless in treating children who are generally arrived without any medical records. and so its michigan and its maryland and its new york and its seattle and portland and phoenix and kansas city and chicago and pittsburgh and all these other places on this map. this map that the "washington post" is still building as we speak. based on tips from the public. because thats how were going to f...

The news was like watching the end of the world. thousands of people were feared dead at that point. and then the following day, on wednesday, condoleezza rice went on vacation. shed been doing a lot of international travel. she was tired. she decided she would have a new york city luxury vacation where she would stay at the palace hotel. she was secretary of state. she wrote about it in her memoir years later. "i flew to new york. that evening, upon arriving at the palace hotel, i flipped on th...

Just sold them off as their cousins. >> martha: he was dating a freshman at the high school. >> also not a good choice. 10-15 for that. >> martha: now for something completely different as they say in monty python. the royal wedding, this is a bad situation. her father was going to come, not going to come, then he sold some pictures to the paparazzi. so who do you think -- now that hes not going to come, i need your etiquette advice for meghan markle. who do you think should walk her down the ai...

Monty python, now prosecutors have to decide if they want to try it again. basically the high court is saying it should be tried again. the prosecutor say after all of this time that they do not want to go through this yet again. they have a decision to make. >> martha: you look at all of the people who were involved, somebody knows. the neighbors, the friends, people have a million theories on what happened. many people have believed that michael skakel did it, but it is chilling, because you k...