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Like a good two seconds of silence on live tv is worth gold. and you, that's literally, again, half your show. >> you know, not everything can be half the show. i was never -- >> a lot of half the show. >> i never excelled at math. i don't think it could be more than two halves of the show. >> you don't watch the show. you got to watch the show more. >> in the comedy world there's this phrase i never totally understood, anti-comedy. >> yes. >> but maybe not -- is not being funny anti-comedy? >> for you, it is. that's -- i think that's genuine. i mean, it's comedy in the sense that it's fun to ...

I always going into denial and i think well, even though the odds are not good for this particular illness, my friend is going to beat it. my friend will survive. so -- and she did have a period of remission so we thought great, you know, everything's going to be fine. so it was that much harder and i can only imagine what she went through for it to come back and to realize that there was nothing to be done. >> yeah. she had an immeasurable impact on comedy. what do you feel her legacy is in the comedy world and in the world in general? >> well, i think that she did break boundaries in a lot o...

Just fantasy? but this is real life. >> yeah. >> there you have it. >> the thing about the kangaroo is i heard sometimes his checks bounce. >> it was a political joke, it just didn't happen to be funny. >> it's a lobbyist registration joke. that's how you know you're watching the beat. >> so that wasn't the awkward hand off section. that's the awkward moment section? it's not. >> what do you think about milking the silence that can come after a moment? >> it's the best. a good two seconds of silence on live tv is worth gold. and you, that's literally, again, half your show. >> you know, not ev...

Now it was about her horrible husband. >> fang, that's my husband. he went to the dentist the other day, the dentist told him, he's got the worst set of tooth he's ever saw in his life. >> for a woman to go on stage and complain about that, it was emancipation, in a way. >> you sure you're a marriage counselor? >> of course, don't i have a sympathetic face? >> well, your face has my sympathy. >> the self-deprecating woman was very popular in the comedy world. >> back from the shop where she's just had her head tarred and feathered, here is miss phyllis diller! >> i think when it came to women ...

Ohh! where else would a man look at me and say, take off your clothes. >> those days, so much of comedy was just straight up sexist. my wife is a battle ax. phyllis diller switched it around. now it was about her horrible husband. >> fang, that's my husband. he went to the dentist the other day, the dentist told him, he's got the worst set of tooth he's ever saw in his life. >> for a woman to go on stage and complain about that, it was emancipation, in a way. >> you sure you're a marriage counselor? >> of course, don't i have a sympathetic face? >> well, your face has my sympathy. >> the self-...