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Forgetting up on the west coast. >> amen. >> so head writer sounds like a frooem dream job. tell us, how did you get it? >> it's kind of a convoluted story. it is a dream job. i always watched the "dick vandyke" show and saw rob petri as the writer of and i fantasized about that. i was in philadelphia working in advertising. but i always wanted to write jokes and be a comedy writer. i actually believe it or not took a correspondent course in joke writing. for a number of years i wrote for comics and i heard that jay was buying jokes for a stand-up act and he came to philadelphia and my wife --...

So he -- he liked my stuff and he hired me. >> wou. >> that was one of the pictures there. >> so, you know, nbc is making this switch, taking jay off, putting jimmy fallon on. this has been tried for. conan o'brien, to bring up his name. >> talking about groundhog's day in that one joke. >> exactly. >> what's the chance -- first, what do you think about the choice but what's the chance that numbers slip and then they call jay back after his 64th birthday to come back? >> i mean, anything is possible in television. i mean, that's what i learned in my 22 years of working with jay. you go up, you...

The statement. we are going to be gathering at 45 -- >> i've gotten 58,000 e-mails and phone calls as well. >> i'm sure off lot of e-mails and phone calls. rabbi, i have to ask you one more thing. hold on, hold on. let me ask you a question. jay brought up a point there. the anti-defamation league was against the cultural senter. do you think they were wrong on that? >> i totally think they were wrong and i'm sorry that foxman was not able to be here with us. the staff itself, one of the people who called said the person who answered the phone said i agree with you, we agree with you. mr. foxm...

>> rabbi, you've just compared all muslims to kamikaze pilots. you say you can't put up any mosque near ground zero. >> you said you can't put up a shrine for kamikaze pilots. we're not putting up a shrine for extreme muslims. >> cenk -- rabbi again, i was asked a question. you're not putting up the monument. you're not putting up the mosquing. it's being put up by a group called cordoba institute. this is symbolism of conquest. and the idea that -- you shake your head, but check the history. >> yeah, yeah. america is about to get taken over by muslims. i know. it's this close. >> oh, please. ...