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>> are you married to a canadian? >> no. >> are you no good health? >> if you are diagnosed with cancer and you're like okay, canada, no, it's too late. it's like buying health insurance five years ago. you have to get in while the going is good. >> if i'm regular american high blood pressure and black guy asthma, i'm okay? >> they don't care. >> any canadian working experience. >> i come here and do standup comedy. does that count? >> no. >> how old will be be in three months? >> we just met each other and i don't appreciate that. 41 to 49. wide range of ages. >> highest level of education. >...

Cancer and you're like okay, canada, no, it's too late. it's like buying health insurance five years ago. you have to get in while the going is good. >> if i'm regular american high blood pressure and black guy asthma, i'm okay? >> they don't care. >> any canadian working experience. >> i come here and do standup comedy. does that count? >> no. >> how old will be be in three months? >> we just met each other and i don't appreciate that. 41 to 49. wide range of ages. >> highest level of education. >> wait a minute, a high school diploma from america doesn't count? >> no. >> so i have none of th...

Wouldn't be here tonight. >> it's so true. >> true. >> some might say it's standup comedy. that is a critique of our politicians for years who we know the blunt truth, we know the honest under the surface truth and then they give us the poll tested pej p hedging d.c.-based phrases that make sense to someone but not the average public and trump says no, i'm going to shoot straight with you. i can't bring in the old toll tition. >politician. >> in the speech he said -- by the way, he's hitting rnc, dnc, everybody. they came to me said tax reform and i said i don't know what tax reform is. people...

Constantly revising the script. revisions made necessary by last-minute changes in a changing world. >> bob hope was the first guy to utilize an actual staff of writers to give you topical material of the day. >> he really did invent the idea of the comedian being the head writer, managing editor, and having a bunch of writers. >> the traditions of standup comedy in the '50s were still really derived from vaudeville. those performers like bob hope had nothing more on their mind than just getting laughs. that was plenty. the guy who really came along and changed all that was motor saul. >> rich...

And edgar said you're right. he said you're right. i understand this completely. he said tomorrow morning, joan, first thing we're going to go out tomorrow and hire a woman to come in and be a wife. >> that period was the start of all the stand-up comedians that came after, who were experimenting with standup comedy as a form of personal expression in all sorts of ways. >> when i first saw him before the show, he was still trying to decide whether he could be a drunken eskimo, the queen of the vikings or a doorknob. i would rather he come out as himself because when he is johnny winters, he ca...