act like this is serious. and that made you a fool. you weren t supposed to be in on the joke. you re supposed to be like a henry kissenger. when he wrote his book on china, he said what s the book about? i don t think kisseenjer knew what to say. it s on china, you fool. the other guy twho s done it successfully is john oliver on hbo. he had his own character and now he s had big success. you need to take those serious issues and make fun of them. it s a satire ends on saturday night. dies on saturday night. it s very hard to do satire. anybody that s ever been caught saying something sarcastically or satirically, they take it flat and you get screwed for it. nobody understands satire. if you ask are you kidding, you re dead. john oliver is brilliant. it s full of substance. but you can be the go to david letterman and do you ve got to stay in some character on
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it s the end of a very memorable day in american history. thank you. that italian story on henry is the most really, most do you see it? i haven t seen it. henry called me last night about it. oh, it s unbelievable. henry talks about the china trip, and he said well, the thing about it that was really appealing to the public is he said i did it, he, henry, did it alone. he said people like to see somebody do something alone. and did it all by himself. the whole china nation. what happened? was it some girl he met at a party or something? this is a point roger made to me yesterday. he said henry is always very careful in what he said publicly to build up the president, but never privately. whatever it is, he has to be cool that he knows he makes a great point of the great job the president is doing, but in private conversations he does