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A woman who gets up on stage is funny, but she sings and dances. >> wait a minute, the music stopped. >> well, i didn't hear it. >> she didn't hear it. >> she's more of an entertainer than just the straight comic. >> that is kind of what was allowed. it was not really accepted for a woman to stand on stage and tell jokes and give their opinion to a bunch of men. until jean carroll. >> most fellows have a tough day at the racetrack, they get nasty. but not my jack. he's so sweet nothing bothers him. he drinks. he doesn't drink pause -- because he likes it. he drinks to steady his nerves. the ot...

Glimpse of what it is like for them. >> people like to see the friendship. they want to walk away saying oh, my god, they really love each other or have a good time together. >> more on the unusual situation, we turn to stephen colbert. >> in a way, jon stewart and colbert were a comedy team. >> i have been invited to a grouse hunting party. it is a few dozen men and stable boys. all of us in kilts, naturally. here's the fun part, jon, whoever shoots the -- >> people lump them together in a way and still do because they like them together. >> is that her? >> yes. >> we're going to need a speci...

>> and now, back to the play. >> george, can we take five minutes? my stomach's a little -- >> no, i'm good. >> i see an absolute parallel between what they were doing in 2017 on broadway -- >> enjoy the play. >> and what weber and fields created in the early 1900s, the basic concept of the comedy team. >> hey, keep a big cc from the paper. >> weber and fields gave us a lot of what we think of as the identifiable marks of a comedy team. they invented slapstick, ethnic jokes, and pie in the face. >> pretty much anybody doing comedy in vaudeville at the turn of the century more or less was in a ...

Sassy. >> you wouldn't know what sassy looks like on me. >> why don't you eat a bowl of wings? >> when you can nail the chemistry of two comedians together -- it's bigger than somebody standing there with a microphone. >> fat guy in a little coat. >> it's a symbiotic relationship, because without the perfect straight man feeding the so-called funny man or the stooge, one can't exist without the other. >> it's like a good tennis match, back and forth, back and forth. if you have two really great players, so much the better. >> i believe global warming is caused by man. >> and i believe it's jus...

>> i'm gone. >> go then. >> well, i am. >> i think with dana, i had chocolate in his peanut butter, he had peanut butter in my chocolate. between action and cut, it was a great chemistry. >> "snl" is a melting pot for people to come in and exchange comedy ideas. when you find somebody that you connect with, it usually ends in a bunch of huge comedy sparks. >> are you okay? >> i'm hot. >> oh, my god. >> what is happening? >> i don't know. >> as performers, when you're around somebody who gets you, and you get them, you go, what more can we do with this? >> a lot of people go to college for seve...