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♪ downtown ♪ things will be great when you're ♪ ♪ downtown >> anything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> a young richard pryor. joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase. if you got on sullivan, you knew you could talk about it. did you see sullivan? >> my whole life i don't get no respect. no respect from anyone. >> as a performer you couldn't get a better place to sell your product. >> when i started out, they would say, variety is a man's game. it's dean, milton berle, jackie gleason, you know, it's the guys. but variety is what i know. i felt ...

♪ downtown ♪ things will be great when you're ♪ ♪ downtown >> anything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> a young richard pryor. joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase. if you got on sullivan, you knew you could talk about it. did you see sullivan? >> my whole life i don't get no respect. no respect from anyone. >> as a performer you couldn't get a better place to sell your product. >> when i started out, they would say, variety is a man's game. it's dean, milton berle, jackie gleason, you know, it's the guys. but variety is what i know. i felt ...

Then an opera singer the next bit, which was true variety. ♪ downtown ♪ things will be great when you're ♪ ♪ downtown >> anything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> a young richard pryor. joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase. if you got on sullivan, you knew you could talk about it. did you see sullivan? >> my whole life i don't get no respect. no respect from anyone. >> as a performer you couldn't get a better place to sell your product. >> when i started out, they would say, variety is a man's game. it's dean, milton berle, jackie gleason, y...

Sullivan." >> ed sullivan was a phenomenon and he was a powerful force. >> the beauty of "the ed sullivan show," if you didn't like something, something else would be along in four minutes. advertisers wanted in on it, so they got everybody. a little kid and his grandparents would watch the same show. >> they would have an elephant on, then somebody doing shakespeare, the next thing, a comic. there would be an acucrobat andn opera singer, which was true variety. ♪ things would be great when you're downtown ♪ >> everything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> rodney dangerfiel...

♪ things will be great when when you're ♪ downtown >> anything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> a young richard pryor. joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase. if you got on sullivan, you knew you could talk about it. did you see sullivan? >> my whole life i don't get no respect. no respect from anyone. [ laughter ] >> as a performer you couldn't get a better place to sell your product. [ applause ] >> when i started out, they would say, variety is a man's game. it's dean, milton berle, jackie gleason, you know, it's the guys. but variety is what i...