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Approximately ten comedy writers on each show. and i was the only woman out of all of them. the funny thing about female writers in television was that in the beginning, i would not say they were very welcomed, although there were certainly exceptions. >> i interviewed for the carson show and i called my agent and i said, i think it went really well. and he said, i'm sorry, honey, but they just called and they said they would not feel comfortable with a woman in the room. >> being a comedy writer is not the mostacho profession, so i think there is a certain defeivenes and overcompensation. >> ...

Well. and he said, i'm sorry, honey, but they just called and they said they would not feel comfortable with a woman in the room. >> being a comedy writer is not the most macho profession, so i think there is a certain defensiveness and overcompensation. >> i like that inside track of getting to hear how men talk if women wen't around. because it was almost like you weren't around. >> it was filthy! the language was disgusting! i loved it. >> he'll have such a time, such fun, such -- oh, you'll -- i have to warn you, though, there's a street down there in rome where it just isn't safe for a wo...

Mccain was way funnier than obama. he killed it up there. but usually the candidates put a ton of work into this. have a professional comedy writer who helps them. they take it really serious and you are as the candidate themselves are as much a target as the opponent. so a question tonight is going to be, you know, given all they have both been through can either even pretend to be funny even and can donald trump make any jokes about himself but it is really as you can see by the days and stuff it is a microscope room. they are going to have to think about their face or just not the whole tim...

Person. >> and obama mccain year, mccain was way funnier than obama. he killed it up there. but usually the candidates put a on the of work into this. have a professional comedy writer who helps them. they take it really serious and you are as the candidate themselves are as much a target as the opponent. so a question tonight is going to be, you know, given all they have both been through can either even pretend to be funny even and can donald trump make any jokes about himself but it is really as you can see by the days and stuff it is a microscope room. they are going to have to think about...

On yourself, the harder you are on yourself, the honest you are about your flaw, the more liberty, more degrees of freedom you have to rip someone else to pieces. >> you take out the knife, gently nick yourself and go around the entire room stabbing everyone in the chest basically you're saying. >> look, if that's the violent metaphor you'd like for a couple of barbs, sure, fine. but, yeah, i'm more fascinated by what trump's going to do. >> i know. >> when he gets up there. what is this guy -- he's not exactly going to -- i don't know. i have one little theory, you saw earlier today that some...