hey, hey, they re running. see? this is the brilliance of the show. i say always keep them running. all the time running, run. run. run, yasmine, run like the wind. stand by. here we go. take one. the average time spent watching television is five to six hours per day. holy residuals. there s a reason for calling it the boob tube and the idiot box. let s change the channel. we want to rap about our scene. yeah. here is the news. we must give the american viewer the kind of television that people desire and deserve. let s try it again and see how it comes out this time.
we took it to the network and the network said, what the hell is this? they said, this makes no sense. i said, right! they acknowledged the hippy generation, yet the hosts were in tuxedos smoking cigarettes. they were still your parents. but the other people let loose on the show were this kind of young vaudeville. hey, she socked it to herself! we knew that sock it to me didn t mean sock it to me, right? so we thought, oh! sock it to me. sock it to me! ha ha. sock it to me? it wasn t not as subversive as it sounds. yes, it was. it was fun. sock it to me? [ it was the first time presidential candidate had ever appeared on a comedy show.
i always carry a purse people in the counterculture start making these shows and they don t want to play by the rules other people did before then. but who would expect the smothers brothers of all people to be the ones raising this much of a fuss? a good script. i held my breath every time they did the show, because i knew the network people were befouling their trousers with fear. nothing funny in this. yeah, boys. we re through censoring your show. they said that the social subjects we touched on were not appropriate for the 9:00 family viewing hour. they came up with any excuse to make it difficult. came up with any excuse to push it. would like to give us notice and some of you don t like the things we say
no, no. i thought it was beautiful. there you go. [ applause ] i just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who use the word excited in every sentence. you re not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. it s the medium that s going to either save america or send it down into demise. there s no question about it. i m getting out of it myself. really? we ll be back after this. what you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show business. some politics, some newspaper people. get them all on the stage together and hope that something works. but it s a great show. it s a great platform for people who have something to say. the point is they take these
say knock, knock. i say it? yeah, go ahead. knock, knock. who s there? there was only three networks. there was only one late night show, really, and it was jack paar. they don t understand how we do this show. we just keep talking with no script. i know. it s agony. jack paar invented the late night television talk show. you feel confident? there is not a man in the world to beat me. i m as pretty as liberace. jack had in his corner his personality. his fabulously, interesting, complex, frightening, neurotic, but in other cases enthusiastic and informed personality. it made for great television. how much time have i done? i don t have a watch either. how much? has it been charming? i ll quit now, then. here s johnny!