noel, noel, noel. i was never a comedian. they have these things in new york city. you have thetape? is it the comic strip here and new york city, i won first prize, tucker can you believe i it? tucker: you re such a modest person. how did you prepare for this? how did you go from being on tv to being a winner of a stand-up comedy competition? i have always loved comedians and what they do i just wanted to give it a shot. i just want to make people laugh. on fox & friends, loved to make the audience laugh as well. this is a big challenge. i will say it s one of the most rewarding things i have done, because i was so nervous about this and to stand up there and just be raw and just try to make you laugh, i will say, it really was the most challenging thing. what i did, was i took my experience.
noel, noel, noel. i was never a comedian. they have these things in new york city. you have the videotape? is it the comic strip here and new york city, i won first prize, tucker can you believe i it? tucker: you re such a modest person. how did you prepare for this? how did you go from being on tv to being a winner of a stand-up comedy competition? i have always loved comedians and what they do i just wanted to give it a shot. i just want to make people laugh. on fox & friends, loved to make the audience laugh as well. this is a big challenge. i will say it s one of the most rewarding things i have done, because i was so nervous about this and to stand up there and just be raw and just try to make you laugh, i will say, it really was the most challenging thing. what i did, was i took my
right? or two, i think. he couldn t tell over a year. he had to keep it to himself. came to a surprise to a lot of his teachers. i don t know you have seen the film. there s no cell phones or no tweeting. it s an amazing amazing movie. charles schultz created the comic book. his family still protective of the legacy of pig pen and the rest of the characters. it s 3-d but there s portions of the movie where they put parts of the comic strip and original specials. it s amazing.
who created peanuts, one of the most greatest comic strips of all time. and this strip expands into marketing, into everything to where it s where it s part of the fabric of america to see snoopy or charlie brown or lucy, linus, wherever. how is it that charles schultz created these characters that are so enduring that they can live outside of the strip? well, i think we interviewed his widow, jeanne schultz, in the film, and she talks about how when he would create a strip, he would draw he called it creating a sense of warmth with his characters. i like that. he would talk about, you know, when he was drawing, you know, a happy snoopy, he was feeling a happy snoopy. so he tried to get into character when he was creating this strip. and i think that comes across in, you know, over, what, 50 years of peanuts.
i was so rude li interrupted by my colleague toure. comic strips to me died when calvin and hobbs went away. i still waking up that new s eve, saving the paper. it s in the trunk somewhere in my home. you got the elusive bill waterson on audio tape. i want to play what he had to say. quite honestly, i tried to if get that there was an audience. i wanted to keep this strip feeling small and intimate as i did it so my goal was just to make my wife laugh. after that i put it out and the public could take it or leave it. bill waterson also painted the i guess drew the poster for this film. can you just talk about him and the impact of calvin and hobbs had on an entire generation of comic book readers and how unbelievable it is that you actually got him on tape. first interview ever, ever. absolutely. yes, it was pretty amazing. when we started making this