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Speaker 1: You're listening to Mark emotion only you are well. Alan's

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Speaker 1: why Belle, the great writer, producer, a comedian, best selling author.

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Speaker 1: He has written a great book about his life and

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Speaker 1: his career. You should get it. It's called Laughlines, Laughlines,

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Speaker 1: Great Book by Alan's White Belle. Also follow him on

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Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm great?

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Speaker 2: Mark, How you doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm good? I'm good.

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Speaker 2: Hey.

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Speaker 1: You were very very close to Rob Reiner and you've

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Speaker 1: been with the family. How they doing, How's everything going

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Speaker 1: for them?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's my wife is more in touch

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Speaker 2: with the two kids than I am. You know, we've

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Speaker 2: shanged some texts now and then, but he's actually spoken

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Speaker 2: with them. And you can only imagine. You can only imagine.

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Speaker 2: You get two kids whose parents were taken away by

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Speaker 2: their brother, and you know, as far as we're concerned,

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Speaker 2: I did a lot of movies with Rob.

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Speaker 1: We was very.

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Speaker 2: Very close the two families, and we were at their

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Speaker 2: house when they brought their children home from the hospital

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Speaker 2: after they were born. So it goes back a long way.

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Speaker 2: And I think that those of us who were closest

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Speaker 1: You know, well, well let's get off there, let's get

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Speaker 1: onto something happy. Let's talk about something else. But thanks

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Speaker 1: for the update. But hey, what's the National Comedy Center?

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Speaker 1: I see it on your Instagram? The National Comedy Center?

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's this great place. It's in Jamestown,

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Speaker 2: New York. So you fly into Buffalo, you make a left,

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Speaker 2: and then go for a couple of hours.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well there's a great location. Who picked this location?

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Speaker 2: Well I think they picked it because Lucille Bull was

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, Jamestown.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Jamestown. But but we in there a handful

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Speaker 2: of times. And it's it's not a hall of fame

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Speaker 2: as much as it is it's a center for all

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Speaker 2: kinds of comedy. And it's high tech. So if you

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Speaker 2: put in somebody's name in the computer when you walk in,

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Speaker 2: it will tell you everything they did, everything they worked with,

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Speaker 2: the films of Lucy and ethel on the on the

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Speaker 2: conveyor conveyor belt, you know, all times of these great

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Speaker 2: sort of They have Harper Marx's Celts, the Bottle, it's

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Speaker 2: got George Colin's notes, Carl Reiner. Uh he gave them

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Speaker 2: more like a high tech library, but with a lot

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Speaker 2: of visuals. And what's really fun, Oh, Mark, you all

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Speaker 2: love this. They have a bench that if you sit

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Speaker 2: on the bench, a fart sound comes back. Okay. And

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Speaker 2: so I was up there with Lorraine Newman. We were

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Speaker 2: was trying to figure out. I asked the director. I said, okay,

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Speaker 2: so you had this idea for a far couch. Fine,

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Speaker 2: was there more than one draft of it? Did a

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Speaker 2: couple of them come in and say, yes, those eight

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Speaker 2: the other two. But it's that's not exactly the high

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Speaker 2: they call the Blue Room, where they have footage of

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Speaker 2: Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor and people who were considered,

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Speaker 2: really if you happen to be in Jamestown, like if

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Speaker 2: you should go there. It's a really great place and

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Speaker 2: I think it was just one museum of the year,

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Speaker 1: That sounds great except for the location. It sounds perfect.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's not around the corner, you know what

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, everything is documentaries now, I guess because it's

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Speaker 1: Everybody's raving about that mel Brooks documentary. So isn't that great?

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Speaker 2: he sent me it both parts of it before he edited.

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Speaker 2: about them. There was one on Chevy, there was one.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're doing one on me. Because of all

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Speaker 2: But I like them. I like them. As a matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, Judd at the House sent me a rough

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Speaker 2: yet on Norm McDonald and if you were a fan

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's great, Souff. As long as we're pluging documentaries,

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Speaker 1: there's a new Sinatra documentary. It's called Echoes of an Icon.

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Speaker 1: It was on Fox Nation. It's also on Amazon. It's great.

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Speaker 1: You should go look at that. What else, Hey, you're

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Speaker 1: working on the Rodney Dangerfield Broadway show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, as a matter of fact, I put it aside

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Speaker 2: I know that's okay. I needed to break mark. It's

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Speaker 2: It's not an easy thing to do. It's easy for

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Speaker 2: me to capture his voice. But what way do you

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Speaker 2: that I'm writing it, I'm going, yeah, they were right.

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Speaker 2: It's more intimate. It's more intimate if I make it

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Speaker 2: more of a monologue, you know, where he tells jokes,

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Speaker 2: but he also tells about his life and it gets

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Speaker 2: Very complex, you know. If you read his book, he

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Speaker 2: was very very open about a childhood where mom never

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Speaker 2: at the psychobabble about it, but he was a real

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now is this show going to get into it

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Speaker 2: Star was a showcase up and coming comedians. Rodney would

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Speaker 2: wearing his pajamas. He walked from his apartment through the

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Speaker 1: You know, he actually lived like a block from Catch

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Speaker 1: And his partner Dangerfields, Tony Babaka, who's the guy that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my understanding as well, that's my you know,

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Speaker 2: a bathroomly genuine.

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Speaker 1: In his bathroom, Yeah exactly.

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Speaker 2: But then he would take off the bathrobe and walk

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Speaker 1: Well, you were lucky because with me, the bathrobe was

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Speaker 1: there were no pajamas, just the bathroom, so you got luck.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, frightening.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, everybody follow Alan's Wybell on Twitter and make sure

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Speaker 1: he follow his Instagram. It's very good. And get his

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Speaker 1: book is a life story and it's a funny, wonderful

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Speaker 1: book of stories. It's called Laughlines by Alan's Wibell. Just

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Speaker 1: go to Amazon and get his book, laugh Lines, Alan's Wybelle,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being with.

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Speaker 2: Us, Thanks for having me. Mark said here, all right.

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Speaker 1: Take care. Hey, don't forget Buck and Clay Noon Today.

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