meananing beforere 9/11 and his trtransmogrifificatin ininto this nenew person,, america a s mayor, that the rest of the world got to know. [applause] - hehe s the manan of the hou, a a man whose extraordininary ge under r pressure in the d days sincee this devevastating a attack has s led him toto be called america a s mayor. ladidies and genentlemen, rudy giuiuliani. - the cityty was shrououded n a real andnd psychologogical d. anand then giuiuliani appepd on saturdrday night l live - we went t there reluluctant. nonone of us w were in thehe d fofor going onon sataturday nighght live. that wasas the mayoror, agai, thinkingng big, thinking thahat, okakay, we needed to we n need to statart laughihing again. . - cacan we be fufunny? [a[audience lalaughs] - - why start t now? [laughteter and applplause]