comedy in the 1950s were still really derived from vaudeville. you know, those performers like bob hope had nothing more than their mind than just getting laughs and that was plenty. the guy who really came along and changed all that was mort sol. >> richard nixon is running for governor of california and i realize sometimes they want this material to be topical. he'll be running for something no matter when the show is on. so sorry. >> mort was the first person to talk like a human being on stage. it wasn't shmaltzy. he did for comedy what james dean and marlon brando did for acting which is he humanized it. >> i have to report to you that the largest news last week was the soviet space man invited to lunch by the queen as you know. just to put your minds at rest i probably will not say anything about the queen. [ laughter ] she hasn't mentioned me has she? >> he came out with a newspaper