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The next thing, a comic. there would be an acrobat and then an opera singer the next bit, which was true variety. ♪ go downtown things will be great when you're downtown ♪ >> anything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> a young richard pryor. >> thank you, thank you. >> joan rivers. rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase. if you got on sullivan, 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 s...

The next thing, a comic, there would be an acrobat, and an opera singer. which was true variety. >> anything that was current was on "the ed sullivan show." >> rodney dangerfield. >> everybody wanted a showcase, if you got on sullivan, you could talk about it the next day. >> 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, but variety is what i know. i felt it was in my genes to do this.

Night. there's, what, seven or eight? you know, he could -- he could come to a place like cnn and get a lot smaller audience than he gets now and it would be great for a place like cnn or somewhere else. >> i think it would be great for anyone, you know. jay is beloved, and he's cert n certainly fielding a lot of offers. greenblatt, head of nbc, said it's unlikely he'd do a talk show, but maybe specials. jay's got a lot of options. >> that's always a good place to be. plus, $250 million, right? you can give anybody you want the heave-ho. all right, chris, thank you. that brings me to the "outt...