[ laughter ] you are good. Last night, we had a group that was whats the word that im looking for . They were not hip. Dumb dumb. Thats right. [laughter] last night was the kind of group they thought Thompson Park was a place where divorced fathers took their kids on sunday. [ laughter ] what are you going to do, when you have a crowd like that . I should remind you, im former United States naval ensign. John w. Carson, 450375. During tonights monologue, the laughing lamp is lit. [ laughter ] they are like, hmm, yes. Well, lets go to the news and see if leon spinks has located any sixinchwide dental floss. [ laughter ] [ applause ] we cant do those jokes anymore. I saw a recent picture of leon two teeth. There goes half the monologue, right there. [ laughter ] we have a late report from the news room. You know bubbles the hippo . Well, zoo parades Marlin Perkins just tranquilized bubbles, the hippo. Marlin put her to sleep by screening one of his reruns on her side. [ laughter ] oh no,
An entertainment medium. So, how do you present this material to an audience and make it entertaining . And that really, uh a big credit goes to hal ashby, because he has the kind of nonsequitur sense of humor and he lays back on certain issues. Paraplegics could be very grim. Guys returning from the war in the state i was in could be very grim. A wife having to go through both sides of the triangle could be very grim. But ashbys got a great way of handling that. A sarcastic touch in there, from time to time. The humor is there, but at the same time, its real. Its really the only way to approach subject matter for the thing we were trying to say like that. What the movie really is about is the war at home. It was a war that we all saw on television. Every night for ten years, we saw what was going on. But you never saw what went on with these guys when they came home if they came home. Yes. Hundreds and thousands in this country. The thing im proudest of is its the most collaborative e