Arsenio Hall

To this day, I wonder who that guy was.

And it's also interesting because from Ice Cube to Minister Farrakhan, I look now at what you guys are going through and being told what to do, what not to do, who to book with Colbert and who not to book.

And Trump wasn't in my mix, but

It's funny because I never thought to publicly talk about me being censored or publicly talk about them not letting me have someone that I want to have because politically that person is wrong or whatever.

I also remember when I booked Bill Clinton, I grew up thinking that you always bring the other side.

And I thought that was a law, but I guess it's changed or it's vacillated a little bit these days.

But I remember putting an offer out to Mr. Bush.

Yeah.

You know, because I wanted both of them.

But he can't play saxophone.

My Ray-Bans and my tie.

Yeah, I remember having the first openly gay stand up comic on a young lady named Leah Delaria, who went on to do Orange is the New Black.

She's great.

She's terrific.

She walked out.

I'm a big dyke.

And I'm like, whoa, I know Paramount will be over later after the show to talk to me.

What the hell was that?

So it was tough.

It was a tough time because they didn't want any of that.