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Aren't we glad that Ellen has another TV show on?
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Because she doesn't work enough, she doesn't work enough.
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She doesn't have enough jobs.
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I have seen an episode of "Game of Games"
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and I have never seen anybody be dropped
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into that big a vat of macaroni and cheese.
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Yeah.
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As you did to somebody.
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Yes.
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The logistics of that have got to be insane.
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Yeah, it's a big set.
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It's a big-- and this season, this new season is bigger.
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We had to use the biggest sound stage on this lot
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in order to get the games in.
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To spin two people around to the point of nausea--
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Yep.
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--And risk physical injury.
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Right.
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Anybody-- anybody, like, almost drown in that vat
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of macaroni and cheese?
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We pull them out pretty quickly.
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Do you have lifeguards on standing by with special vests?
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Well, they're not really lifeguards,
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but yes, we have people to pull them out, and so--
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it's not always macaroni and cheese.
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Sometimes it's pea soup.
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There's different things we drop them into.
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Who writes your show, toddlers?
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Uh-huh.
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Yes.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Yes.
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What?
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You know what would be funny, Mommy?
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If Mommy fell into--
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into mashed potatoes.
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Oh.
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[LAUGHTER]
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How old is that kid?
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Well, that's--
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That's a young kid.
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That's a young kid.
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That's actually a really good idea.
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Just have a roomful of young people
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and ask them what they want to see on TV and then create it.
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That's right.
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What if we had a roomful of sharp forks?
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[LAUGHTER]
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And they had to find their way out, blindfolded.
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Was that coming up any time soon?
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Actually, no--
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That might be the Halloween version.
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No one take that.
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I'm writing it.
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I'm writing it.
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All right, you're writing it down.
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By the way, you do a good impression of a child.
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Thank you.
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You really do.
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I'm in touch.
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Your family was in Greece recently.
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We go to Greece on our holiday vacation.
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Because Rita's family is from there.
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Yes, and so therefore, there are no options to go anywhere else.
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Uh huh.
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Right.
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We will go to Greece and that's that.
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That's all there is to it.
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It's pretty beautiful.
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Well, it beats my family who had came
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from Red Bluff, California.
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So, it might be a little bit better
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to go to Greece-- better water.
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So you're on a nice, fancy yacht,
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and you decide you're going to jump off the fancy yacht.
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There's a-- can we see this?
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I don't know how many takes you did.
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Oh.
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How many times did you jump off?
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Well, this was my birthday.
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I was just--
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I wanted to show off the new hat and shirt
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that I got for my 63rd birthday.
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But we had-- we were--
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it took a while.
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Our production team went off.
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If you have the--
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you have an earlier take of this that didn't quite work out.
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I haven't seen the earlier take.
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Well, here's what-- we're going, and there I go, right by it.
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Didn't quite have the same celebratory visual--
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No.
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--That we were looking for.
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No.
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But it is the same magic technology.
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There we go.
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But that was pretty high, but then I
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saw your son jumped off a cliff.
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OK, yeah.
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How high was that because that--
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I'm no judge of height.
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I'm going to say it's six miles high.
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This is him.
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He marched up-- he swam to shore, climbed up on beach,
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walked all the way up to the top of this mountain,
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and he wasn't waiting more than three seconds
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before he did this.
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Look at this.
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I mean, I cannot believe he did this.
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That was him.
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1, 2, 3, 4.
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That's four seconds of hang time.
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That's the type of fall that will
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rip a watch off your wrist.
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Is he usually a daredevil like that?
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He-- yeah, he is.
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Wow.
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He rides motorcycles, and when he turned 21, he wanted to go--
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so I said, what would you like for your birthday?
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He said, (GRUFFLY) I want to go skydiving.
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So, we--
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Is that how he talks?
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We went--
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[LAUGHTER]
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--After he ponders things.
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So we went-- we went tandem skydiving.
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Tandem, so you're attached to somebody
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who knows what they're doing.
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You freefall, and as you're free falling,
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your face goes like this.
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[LAUGHTER]
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As you go-- because you're traveling
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at, like, 250 miles an hour.
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And then she popped the chute and we stopped,
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and she was doing this thing of swinging us around, steering us
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around.
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Oh, wow.
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And I had had a huge breakfast burrito
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before the plane went off, and so I truly--
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I begged her.
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I'm just-- I was like a rag doll hanging
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from this harness thing.
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Please stop.
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Please, please.
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Stop, stop.
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And we landed on this grass strip and all I could do
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was sit on my rump, and I just had
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to sit there for about seven minutes
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waiting for my stomach to calm down, while other people were
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coming down and landing.
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Well, I have to say, maybe having a huge breakfast burrito
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before you're going to jump out of a plane--
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Bad call.
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Bad.
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Bad call.
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Yes.
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Had I been with you, I would have said,
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don't eat the whole thing.
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It was a damn good burrito though.
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Oh, I'm sure.
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I'm sure.
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It was really good.
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All right.
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So, we're going to both be at the Golden Globes this year.
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You're getting the Lifetime Achievement Award--
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Cecil B. deMille Award.
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Cecil deMille Award.
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You're getting the Carol Burnett Award.
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Yes, we're both getting--
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[APPLAUSE]
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Now--
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That's exciting that first of all--
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first of all, I'm just flattered and honored
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that I'm getting that, but I'm so glad that this year--
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Well, does this mean you're now going
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to have a variety show on the air as well?
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So there'll be this, the game show, and the--
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And then the fork show.
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I'm just excited because the fact
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that you're getting the Cecil B. deMille Award when I'm getting
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the Carol Burnett Award.
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It's just going to be--
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I'm so excited for you because I think that's so cool--
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Oh, thank you.
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--I get to be there on that show with you.
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And likewise.
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Yes.
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You've-- you and I have been, essentially,
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on television since VHS was first invented.
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That is true.
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It's literally about the same time.
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One of the first times that I saw you and got
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to know you was at something called the American Comedy
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Awards.
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Remember that?
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Yes, it was just for the American comics.
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Yes, and for some--
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for some reason, I was there.
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And it was an award show that was on for a little bit.
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But this was 1984, 85--
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Yeah.
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--Something like that.
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And you won for-- what did you win?
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I have no idea.
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You won-- I think you won for best female club comic.
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OK.
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Does that sound about right?
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Sure.
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Which means that you--
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[LAUGHTER]
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--You got to travel around the world and perform
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at the Chuckle Hut--
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Yeah.
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And I was the best--
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--And Laughs Incorporated.
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--The best female to do that.
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That's right.
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I was the best female at the Chuckle Hut.
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You were.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Yeah.
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We're going to talk to Tom more after this.
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We'll be back.