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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George nor with

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Speaker 2: you along with George Schlatter and Georgia's website is linked

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Speaker 2: up at Coast to coastam dot com. He's also got

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Speaker 2: some programs on YouTube and his book is called Still

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Speaker 2: Laughing Now. I love that cover picture of you on

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Speaker 2: the book, George. It's so cool. You had a great time.

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Speaker 2: You had fun.

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Speaker 3: I have had a great time. I'm having a great time.

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Speaker 3: By the way, to listen to your show tomorrow. I'm

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Speaker 3: sending in a subscription because I want to join Coast

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Speaker 3: to Coast. I think you guys are great.

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Speaker 2: We'd be honored to have you listening in as a

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Speaker 2: member to the book.

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Speaker 3: Started out to see the book that it became another

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Speaker 3: book and now it's a paperback book. But it was

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Speaker 3: a celebration of the people I've known and the things

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Speaker 3: I've done because I feel it life is now so

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Speaker 3: seriously the presidential situation we're in, we needed something that

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Speaker 3: would relieve the tension, and so we wrote to just

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Speaker 3: my funny memories, and it's doing very very well. That

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm really glad it did as well because

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Speaker 3: it was the risk because people said, you're going to

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Speaker 3: write a book about comedy, though, you know. So it

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Speaker 3: turned out pretty well and I'm proud of it, sure did.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of television today with all these

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Speaker 2: different venues You've got YouTube, bits like Samazon, You've got

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Speaker 2: all of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's I'm a little disappointed because I think

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Speaker 3: we could be doing more and I think there's funny

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Speaker 3: people out there who can learn from what's been going

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Speaker 3: on before. But I think we should do more, more

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Speaker 3: adventures and more funny people there, and I think we

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Speaker 3: should focus more on that because we need we need

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Speaker 3: to do something to break this tension, because we are

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Speaker 3: in trouble. If you look at the news, it's getting

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Speaker 3: worse and worse and worse, you know, and they focus

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Speaker 3: on the ugly side. They shouldn't. There's all kinds of

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Speaker 3: funny things and funny people. I want to see more

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Speaker 2: What would you say is the funniest comedian you've ever heard?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Probably will be Robin Williams. Uh boy, he was

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Speaker 3: in San Francisco, barefoot was I brought him in, dressed

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Speaker 3: him up and we put him on the New Laughing

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Speaker 3: and he exploded, and he's gone on to have a

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Speaker 3: brilliant career. But that mind is wonderful. Uh, But we

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Speaker 3: need to we need to encourage more of those people,

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Speaker 3: more political comics, because politics needs gumor as all you

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Speaker 3: have to do is look at the presidential race now,

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Speaker 3: you know. But very very lucky, we've we had a

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Speaker 3: lot of them and and uh fortunately, uh there's more

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Speaker 3: of them coming up. Laughing affected a number of young

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Speaker 3: comedians who now will try things. It doesn't have to

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Speaker 3: to be of scene. He's gonna be funny with straight

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Speaker 3: language and straight subjects, but just enjoying the experience. And

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Speaker 3: that's what we tried to do.

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Speaker 2: How did you come up with the concept for real people.

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Speaker 3: It was the fact that there were so many people

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Speaker 3: on television. So we started collecting these people and so

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Speaker 3: we put them all together, and they were concerned about

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Speaker 3: that celebrating because it wasn't a show about guest stars.

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Speaker 3: It was a show about people who did strange and wonderful,

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Speaker 3: funny things. And the real people went on and had

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Speaker 3: an enormous impact, almost as much impact as laughing, because

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Speaker 3: real people started a whole trend towards celebrating and presenting

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Speaker 3: just not not big stars, just puny people.

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Speaker 2: You moved on to ABC after a while. What made

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Speaker 3: Colin NBC? See, I've been fired more than any producer

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Speaker 2: Really.

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Speaker 3: Everything everything we ever did kind of broke the moles

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Speaker 3: a little bit. I had one show called turn On

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Speaker 2: Yo, you've done a great job. You knew Sinatra, didn't you.

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Speaker 3: Oh? I had great fun with Sonata. Sinatra was an

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Speaker 3: But he was a poor adventurer, all of electricity and

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Speaker 3: with mister Sinatra. And but sometimes we were very we

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Speaker 2: Who was a tough guy, wasn't.

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Speaker 3: He he Well, yeah, yes he was. He was. You

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Speaker 3: was my secret with him. I could make him laugh.

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Speaker 3: But the Sinatra, we had funny with him, and with

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Speaker 2: They were very talents.

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Speaker 3: They were just well they but it was it was

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Speaker 3: and taking chances. Well, I married wonderful girl. The name

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Speaker 2: That's great. Yeah. The rat Pack came to Saint Louis

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Speaker 2: back in nineteen sixty five, yep. And they sing at

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Speaker 3: Was up in Saint Louis. I lived living in Webster Groves.

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Speaker 3: One of my first jobs in the Saint Louis Municipal Opera.

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Speaker 2: And you sang there, didn't you?

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Speaker 3: I did. I did, And I was the youngest. I

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Speaker 3: and very spotty, unusual, bizarre career, including working in at

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Speaker 2: Belt out a few lines for me. You can still sing.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I don't do that. At the recommendation

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Speaker 3: really think we need. We need laughter because when you

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Speaker 3: So hillmer is our answer. Humor will be the great leveler,

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Speaker 3: I think. So That's where I'm focused.

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Speaker 2: We need to laugh.

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Speaker 3: We have to. It's the you know, it breaks the

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Speaker 2: I love the show you created, the American comedy Awards

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Speaker 3: Well, it was the fact that we had awards celebrated writers, directed, producers, singers, dancing,

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Speaker 3: I said, let's devote the entire show to the people

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Speaker 3: very successful because comedy is a necessary ingredient in our environment.

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Speaker 3: And if you look at the political scene right now.

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Speaker 3: I watched the news tonight and the entire show is

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Speaker 3: about this wacko presidential candidate we have, and the riots

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Speaker 3: so my life, my career, my family, my security has

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Speaker 3: all come from my looking sideways of life and making

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Speaker 2: What do you think of this?

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Speaker 3: I haven't told you anything funny tonight, but we'll see

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got you for another hour after this, George,

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Speaker 2: what did you I can do that? What do you

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Speaker 3: But arong? Michael rooksm me as a writer. I brought

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Speaker 3: the success they've had. I'm not a big fan because

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah, something like that.

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Speaker 3: So we need another new form. We need another I'm

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Speaker 3: thinking about doing a comedy telethon and collecting all of

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Speaker 3: we are politically and economically, socially, environmentally, we need to laugh.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not making anything. I'm not too amusing right now,

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Speaker 2: What'd you think of Don Rickles?

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Speaker 3: I love Rickles. I love Don Rickles and he was.

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Speaker 3: I introduced him to Sinatra and he was terrified because

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Speaker 3: the Don Rickles that we knew. But he went into

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Speaker 3: the Slave Brothers and I took Frank and Deceive and

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Speaker 3: Don whipped on Frank timidly, but Frank loved it, and

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Speaker 3: that kind of launched him. Don. Don was really a

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Speaker 2: and yeah, one of the kind. I just met Wayne

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Speaker 3: Wayne. Oh god, Wayne, I didn't want to Wayne's Force shows.

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Speaker 3: He's a great talent and a nice man. You know.

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Speaker 3: I've been lucky because I've had experiences with all of

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Speaker 2: Right, George, what got you to Hollywood? First place?

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Speaker 3: I came to Hollywood to go to the road show.

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Speaker 3: many years ago, that show was a really you're an adventure.

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Speaker 2: You knew Ronald Reagan, did you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Wasssman called me and asked me. He said

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Speaker 2: He was funny, you know, he was a straight actor,

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Speaker 3: He was a nice man. I liked her a lot,

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Speaker 3: Well, right now we kind of need it. Sumber may

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Speaker 2: It's one of the strangest times, George I can recall

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Speaker 3: Well, it's it's strange because you know, You've got a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a little bit, but he comes along with this animal,

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