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It wasn't a comedy? >> monday, my agent said it was a dramatic series. sure i'll do it, but why hire me? the whole run of that show, people would -- i got the biggest repetitive piece of fan mail, i have a bet with my husband that you are not the same guy that puts the rubber glove on his head. my audience was so fractured. people knew me from hbo and colleges as the wacky standup who puts a rubber glove on his head. and then, you know, there was people when i started doing bobby's world that knew me from -- >> that was a huge show. >> that was big. it went all over the world. but that was you...

Want the blue carpet right up to your nipple. and i loved bringing people into this uncomfortable world. if people are just tuning in now, i would imagine they're uncomfortable. what kind of interview is this? [ applause ] here's the thing, though, was there always one part of the room you really didn't want them to point to? like what's in the attic? howie, show me what's in the basement. >> we're having that refinished. >> what was "st. elmo's" like for you? >> i saw billy daniels who played his father, denzel, from time to time he will go, howie, how would you play this scene? but i'm busy,...

Some very weird things. >> well, when the queen mary starts making regular trips across the polar ice cap because there's no more polar ice cap, do you think they might notice? has anybody seen the pictures of greenland the other day? there's no snow. >> i agree with joe. i agree that, number one, the republicans are the nostalgia party. they're the simplicity party. they're the -- >> are they luddites, anti-science? >> i think if they're convinced, as many of them are, that science is being used as a conspiracy to take away their freedom and take away their independence -- >> i saw that movie...

It's not a good choice. i would never support it, but there are enough republicans i think who are so afraid of defense cuts that they would probably give in. let me go to ari. thanks for joining us, ari. my sense is as well as andrew has laid this out, how obama is this visionary and can think three or four years ahead, he must have also counted on an economic recovery kicking in with a lot more steam than we've had which jeopardizes getting to that second term. we have an 8%-plus unemployment rate that looks like it's going to be facing us in the face the day people vote. >> i think that's r...

Dating people of different races and then they see them becoming gay, some of them, and then they look at the president of the united states, who doesn't have the good sense to be either black or white and his middle name is hussein, qed, he's a muslim. >> i like the way you phrased it, becoming gay. i'm not sure of the choice. that came up with trent lott, i think. >> but the point -- >> announcing they are gay. >> right. >> joe's point is it's a more complicated world than it was. demographically in terms of all the different ethnic groups, in new york city i think there are 140 or 150 langu...