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Think colbert went to devin nunes to do this or the other side? >> i think that colbert -- i say this and i'm going to tick a lot of people. he's a comic genius, the numbers went up after attacking the president. neil: he's very good at it. >> i hope jimmy does it on sunday night, when the president brings everybody together at perfect shooting, neil, he talked to columbine parents, heart wrenching stories and he layered down the people, he went to young black father who got a kid who got shot in inner city of washington, d.c., the press never even talked about that. how did president trump ha...

>> i, you know, it's basically, you know, what i really feel like i got from my family was low self-esteem, which it runs deep. it started with my grandparents. they lived in this condo in florida, death wish village. >> the laughs are great. healer of pain. but the laugh is over and there's the pain again. >> comedian robin williams was found dead this morning inside his northern california home. his publicist says of late williams had been battling severe depression. he was 63 years old. >> there's no more painful realization that the other side of whatever comic genius is is sometimes this,...

This is a very intelligent man that really knew the craft? >> he was a total professional. like i said, he wrote -- he was an otor. he was nominated for a global peace prize for work with muscular dystrophy. his genius as a comic genius and who he inspired, countless comedians who have been inspired by jerry lewis and his comic genius. again, it goes bar none his contribution. just expansive. it's such a loss. >> yeah, yeah. >> certainly is. we'll never see that kind of thing again. >> certainly sounds like he made an impact you on, he's from newark, new jersey, you're from queens. that was a ...

This is a very intelligent man that really knew the craft? >> he was a total professional. like i said, he wrote -- he was an otor. he was nominated for a global peace prize for work with muscular dystrophy. his genius as a comic genius and who he inspired, countless comedians who have been inspired by jerry lewis and his comic genius. again, it goes bar none his contribution. just expansive. it's such a loss. >> yeah, yeah. >> certainly is. we'll never see that kind of thing again. >> certainly sounds like he made an impact you on, he's from newark, new jersey, you're from queens. that was a ...

You've already hit me. i'm down here. >> did i hurt you? >> no. >> following the breakup, lewis hit the ground running. he wrote, starred, and sometimes directed a series of paramount hits that have gone on to become comedy classics. one, the nutty professor was remade by murphy in 96, introducing a whole new generation to lewis's comic genius. in 1966, lewis first hosted the muscular dystrophy labor day telethon. truly his labor of love, lewis's annual 21 1/2 hour telethon raised well over a billion dollars for muscular dystrophy research projects and jerry's kids. the 2011 show was the first...