what mugging and doing pratfalls and doing things that maybe nice little girls weren t supposed to do. at one time i have never thought of it as a hindrance as something that we shouldn t do. we just go ahead and do them. we don t think how we look. is it easy, for instance, though, to be there were ten variety shows on at the same time that carol burnett was on at, and there were approximately ten comedy writers on each show. and i was the only woman out of all of them. the funny thing about female writers in television was that in the beginning i would not say they were very welcomed , although there were certainly exceptions. i interviewed for the carson show and i called my agent and i said, i think it went really well and he said, oh, i m sorry, honey, but they just called and they said they would not feel comfortable with a woman in the room being a comedy writer is not the most macho profession. so i think there is a certain defensiveness and overcompensat
don t ask me what to do. i said, you know what to do. maybe i should have killed 400, 500 people. then i would have felt better. than when i felt like i really offered society something . welcome to very scary people. i m donnie wahlberg tonight we unravel the twisted tale of one of america s most despicable criminal minds, charles manson garrett was going to call in early and not go out. suddenly garrettson hears loud the line is dead. i think garretson was probably scared to death as garretson is hearing those screams as absolute kaar carnage is happening on the lawn and inside people were slaughtered, including actor sharon tate. what unfolded that night was set in motion by just one man, charles manson. according to charlie, he was the son of an unwed teenage prostitute who cared so little about her son, she tried to sell him for a beer. i spent the best part of my life in boy schools, prisons and reform schools because i had nobody. nobody would come and sign
the tables have turned. the idea that jokes aren t funny, it s still very much a thing. there are some people who can t get their heads around what they don t know. i said i wanted to be a comedian, she said, maybe it s better if you just died. i think they thought of women as a different species. for view ladies are capable of being a comedian, so everybody sticks by them. here s somebody that thinks they do it. this is a great argument that women are doing much better work than men. you re welcome. when was the hardest what s the hardest part about being a female comedian? what would you guess? well, it s the rape. [ laughter ] i have a deep camaraderie with tough, hard core, funny ass female comedian apps because it s been a long road for all of us. what would make a woman turn from a decent think like housewiving or cashiering in a five and dime store or dental hygiene? and turn her to comedy as a korea? it s definitely easier now. but back the
the dangerous arctic blast now slamming across the earth. with it, snow, ice, howling winds and all before christmas. we ll have a full forecast for you. we ll also tell you about in kansas city, delays here. driving in was wild, with all the weather, and, you know. winds and rain. there s the people hoping to fly home for the christmas holidays. may simply not make it. we ll also update you with the travel delays in your world. and there s a not nativity display at the vatican, and it sends a message of hope to the people of ukraine. very good day to you. we begin, of course, with the massive winter storm that s barreling across united states. 11 people so far have died from the storm. at least 200 million people are under winter weather advisories. it s an arctic blast that s knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses. it s brought with it a combination of frigid temperatures, gusty winds, heavy snow and ice. and as a result, hundreds of t
Live longer. she s one of them girl comics. it ain t that funny. got extra gland in the hooha that filters the jokes full that ain t funny. i read it in science book. it s science, look it up. whole episode on planet earth they did about women and their anti-joke vaginas. in hd, too, horrifying. it is christmas eve. all welcome, wherever in the world you are watching. i m richard quest. i m in london. ahead on the cnn newsroom