i thank you. thank you very much! [ cheering ] thank you! good, how are you? come on, folks, this is a long [ cheering ] all right. now you ve got yours now it s my turn. hey, johnny! this kid sounds like a rumble working his street gang here. [ laughter ] i always feel like i haven t done anything. people applaud you should applaud the audience for showing up. [ laughter ] [ applause ] anyway, you ve passed the eye test by reading the applause sign. [ laughter ] now, let s see if you can pass the intelligence test by understanding the monologue. [ laughter ] no, i let me explain that. i didn t mean that to put you down. last night s audience i m still a little steamed on people who ve been here before, but they re probably back home by now. [ laughter ] would you say it was kind of a low-brow audience last night? it s tough doing jokes while people in the sixth row are spitting tobacco juice at you. [ laughter ] anyway, i m johnny carson, draft classification a-y.
and then you and guy s going again and he said, what did you say? i can stand so much and then i say, look! get one! [ laughter ] they work! [ applause ] big deal. what did you say? [ laughter ] put that in! put that back here! what did you say? were you i m going to wait until you get that. oh, excuse me. [ laughter ] oh, yeah. let me ask you a question, now. were you reluctant for a while to get that? yeah, yeah, of course, that s a natural thing. but i noticed it. around gloria a couple years and i noticed i found that gloria was always and she didn t say anything about it the thing is, i didn t hear it. didn t hear the telephone. so i went to a doctor and he said, well, yeah. how do you know that your hearing is gone? and i said, well, i can t hear the telephone bell and my wife has to answer the telephone. he said, well, get a louder bell on the telephone. [ laughter ] and this worked for a while. yeah. except, we started waking the neighb
[ music ] okay, we are back. thank you, doctor. we have jimmy stewart with us tonight. hodding carter iii. i m looking forward to meeting hodding carter iii. i admired him tremendously during his really difficult days right after the immediate seizure of the hostages. where he had to go out everyday for the state department and the government and explain to all those reporters what was going on. you got to be fairly cool because they try to oh, yeah. throw you some curves, knowing the press. starting shopping yet? not yet. you really i always like to wait until the last minute, yes. wait until the last minute. i don t believe that you wait until the day before. you say you do, but how can you wait until the day before? a man can do you go to a store, you say wow. i want the following trinket. you ought to write that down. i want to put that on stone tablets a man can do what he wants to do. i go to certain stores there s certain shops you go to
many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. welcome to hattiesburg, mississippi, on booktv. located in the southern part of the state as apocalypse of nearly 80,000 is home to the university of southern mississippi. with the help of our comcast cable partners, over the next 90 minutes we ll talk with local authors as well as about the history of the area and the dakota clinic look at the civil war through the eyes of both well-known and ordinary families. i really had always wanted to write this kind of sweeping, i guess sauger of the civil war. and for me as a military historian over the years what i of those is that as much as was ousted by what happens on the battlefield and this sweeping changes that take place because of his campaign on that campaign, the soldiers are always looking older i really came to deciding on my writing that you have to look at both. you have to look at the soldier and the famil
former chair of the pulitzer prize forum. [applause] thank you very much. it is my pleasure to introduce a number of great winners to the pulitzer prizes tonight. let me take a moment to recognize one of my predecessors both as the chair of the tampa bay times company and of the itzer prize, and barnes andy barnes is with us. [applause] our purpose here this evening is to say happy birthday to the pulitzer prizes. they turn 100 years old this year, which is older than anybody in this room, i believe. [laughter] this is a great tribute to a robust and resilient american institution. you to s also say thank joseph pulitzer who created these prizes. it is a very hard thing to when a pulitzer. it is hard even to become one of the three finalists. hundreds and hundreds of entries arrive in new york each year for prizes given in journalism, literature, and the arts. spinteer juries of experts spend days willing down the entries. the board members read every finalists entry and