so this is. the framed design of my stock certificate when we went public on the new york stock exchange. it feels really good, especially now with the stock opening substantially higher than the offering price. i must tell you, we re really excited. it s a good thing. this is when you became a billionaire. yes. that was a good day. - i bet. - ( laughs ) tell me about that day. well, it was a very exciting day. i had worked hard to build a company that was martha stewart living on the media. and a lot of people poo-pooed the idea of on the media, but, to me, it really made sense. so it was a media company, which encompassed a magazine and a world of books, - um, and television. - harvey: television. martha: it became a merchandising company. we sold products. at that time, we were selling a lot of product at k-mart.
i do a lot of gardening, but you are, without a doubt, the dirtiest, used-up hoe i have ever seen. ( laughter ) i was blown away by your performance at the justin bieber roast. i think it was one of the most brilliant comedic performances that i have seen. - thank you. - from somebody who s not a comic. as we all know, kevin is one of the biggest movie stars in the business right now. and he deserves it. he s struggled for years. when he finally got his first big paycheck, he spent $150,000 on a watch. ( chuckles ) i forget that term for that. it s not african-american rich. it ll come to me. ( laughter ) ( cheering ) were you scared? no. i was so high. say again? i was so high. it was just a joke. ( both laugh ) well, i don t know. i mean, you were sitting next to snoop. i had to sit next to snoop for four hours.
and guys who are running their own homes now there s a lot of single men or married men who are running their households i think they all know pretty much now how to throw a good party. did you have a master plan or was this just kind of happening as it went along? i wish i could say it was all mapped out. ( laughs ) of course it wasn t mapped out. but i knew what i liked to do. i really, i d found my voice with this book. so i started to write a book a year. and every single year, i created a really, really good book. and i wanted to do television, i wanted to do everything. i thought the only other format that would pay off is a magazine. so that s where this comes in. this is number one issue of martha stewart living. this was an immediate success as a magine. it was the first full-fledged lifestyle magazine with a person attached. were you competing with oprah? i was a little earlier than oprah. it was martha, then it was oprah,
and with such venom and such. gore. i mean, it s just terrible. james comey was the prosecutor. yeah, dear james. so, he s a complicated person, isn t he? do you think that he s sexist? no, i m sure i was an example. and that s it. harvey: until hillary clinton comes along. second example. but not only the second, there have been. i m sure there are other people that were also used as examples. so are there dots you connect that then.? um, i ll be writing about it in my autobiography. ( laughs ) were you hurt by the glee that some people expressed when you went through this? not hurt, just disgusted. ( laughs ) and i m a very strong person. i can put up with a lot of lemons in my life, but, of course, i was really, not discouraged, even,
we thought that it would be really nice to do a potluck supper. and that s what we did. harvey: so. is this rebranding, a brand extension? cause that s not the stuff you used to do. it s neither, neither. it s really a melding of two diverse cultures. i ve gotten to know what compton and all that. lifestyle is about, and music. i didn t know how talented snoop was in music, or jamie foxx is a genius. you don t know that until you actually sit down and spend a day with a person that s famous, but you don t know how talented underneath they are, what education has gone into that, that amazing performance ability. so i learned a lot, and he certainly has learned a lot. fo shnizzle. yeah, for shnizzle. - ( laughs ) - yeah. so tell me the truth,