it wasn t a comedy? monday, my agent said it was a dramatic series. sure i ll do it, but why hire me? the whole run of that show, people would i got the biggest repetitive piece of fan mail, i have a bet with my husband that you are not the same guy that puts the rubber glove on his head. my audience was so fractured. people knew me from hbo and colleges as the wacky standup who puts a rubber glove on his head. and then, you know, there was people when i started doing bobby s world that knew me from that was a huge show. that was big. it went all over the world. but that was young mothers and kids knew me. the young mothers knew me. the mothers would bring kids and go, this is bobby. they would go, talk to him like bobby. and you just see the horror,
want the blue carpet right up to your nipple. and i loved bringing people into this uncomfortable world. if people are just tuning in now, i would imagine they re uncomfortable. what kind of interview is this? [ applause ] here s the thing, though, was there always one part of the room you really didn t want them to point to? like what s in the attic? howie, show me what s in the basement. we re having that refinished. what was st. elmo s like for you? i saw billy daniels who played his father, denzel, from time to time he will go, howie, how would you play this scene? but i m busy, i can t take every call. but i wasn t setting out to be an actor. at what point did you realize it wasn t a comedy? monday, my agent said it was
some very weird things. well, when the queen mary starts making regular trips across the polar ice cap because there s no more polar ice cap, do you think they might notice? has anybody seen the pictures of greenland the other day? there s no snow. i agree with joe. i agree that, number one, the republicans are the nostalgia party. they re the simplicity party. they re the are they luddites, anti-science? i think if they re convinced, as many of them are, that science is being used as a conspiracy to take away their freedom and take away their independence i saw that movie, it s called planet of the apes and it wasn t a comedy. as i m sure joe and i listen to we watch fox, we listen because have you to cover the whole spectrum as a reporter, that s the that s the message that you get. that the scientists and the bureaucrats are combining to rob us of our freedom. so it s basically a fear, it s a fear of everything. take a look at this number though.
it s not a good choice. i would never support it, but there are enough republicans i think who are so afraid of defense cuts that they would probably give in. let me go to ari. thanks for joining us, ari. my sense is as well as andrew has laid this out, how obama is this visionary and can think three or four years ahead, he must have also counted on an economic recovery kicking in with a lot more steam than we ve had which jeopardizes getting to that second term. we have an 8%-plus unemployment rate that looks like it s going to be facing us in the face the day people vote. i think that s right. they had hoped the economy would rebound more. they inherited a 750 million per month loss rate and have improved a lot from that as andrew documents in the piece, but they have a longer ways to go. i think the other interesting comparison to ronald reagan is there s two ronald reagans. there was the ronald reagan who worked with democrats, who made
dating people of different races and then they see them becoming gay, some of them, and then they look at the president of the united states, who doesn t have the good sense to be either black or white and his middle name is hussein, qed, he s a muslim. i like the way you phrased it, becoming gay. i m not sure of the choice. that came up with trent lott, i think. but the point announcing they are gay. right. joe s point is it s a more complicated world than it was. demographically in terms of all the different ethnic groups, in new york city i think there are 140 or 150 languages spoken in the schools. at the republican convention that was opie and andy griffith and that was a wonderful thing on tv even though it wasn t real at the time either, and that i don t mean to it sounds condescending, i m not trying to be that way. i wish life were simpler. the fear is legitimate. yeah, i wish the fear is real. we loved the 50s. but we re not a lot of people ha