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I came from an interesting background, i'm an only child and being latino, you guys are thinking that's ethnically impossible. >> in the 70s and 80s, a comedian worked clean hoping to get a spot on the tonight show. if the booker from the tonight show saw you and you were dirty, you were out. >> i don't care how dirty a comic, you were, you had to have your five minutes for johnny carson, merv griffin. >> i have a background, irish and german, thin, angry, hungry people. >> the great chefs of ire rand. >> terrifying is what five minutes is. it's a big deal for the population that loves standup...

Of those shows, because the television was the showcase. >> i'm background of german and so we are just thin angry people. and the great chefs of ireland and there's a thick book. >> terrifying is what five minutes is is. >> and so it is a big deal for the population who loved standup comics is where you saw us. >> please welcome whitney cummin cummings. >> and you would have to figure out five minutes and use sin gnomes to -- synonyms to help the material. >> and they say when you catch the bouquet it is the next woman gets married. and no o, catch the bouquet, and see one guy talks to you fo...

>> i don't care how dirty you were, had you were, you had to have five minutes for those shows because television was your own showcase. >> i'm irish and german, we are thin, angry, hungry people. the great chefs of ireland, there's a thick book. >> it was a big deal for the population that loves standup comics. >> welcome whitney cummings. >> you have to figure out five minutes. you would be changing things or finding synonyms to vulgarize your set. i'm having ptsd flashback of trying to get through leno. >> catch the bouquet, see if one guy talks to you for the rest of the night. >> comics h...

To forgive him in such a public space? is it the fact you know what he went through as a comic or you have compassion for the human situation? what was it? >> i've known the guy for a dozen years. he auditioned for snl and i know who he is. for standup comics today, it's a very fine line. you're doing show in a local venue. everyone has an iphone with a video camera. every single sentence is analyzed and you're held up to a politically correct standard. i knew in his heart he is not a guy who hates gay people. i know because he's my friend. if he hated gay people, we would not be friend. i kno...