David Spade

I see less of that more than just comedian.

And one thing's kind of cool about you is you produce the show for Whitney, right?

I mean, you, you do a lot of producing of things and for other people.

I love that show.

When I first saw that show with you and the comedians, it was one of the first lo-fi shows.

Because cable was still coming up and stuff.

And so...

There are shows that do that now, but usually it was the band and the... So it was very cool how lo-fi it was and casual.

Thank you.

No, Carson would in the early days, he'd have people stay out there.

So you might see Bob Hope and Don Rickles get in a fight or something, you know, but that went away and it was one guest, one out and then highly, highly organized with an outline of what you're supposed to get to in the commercial breaks.

And so since your thing was, I hate this.

One of my least favorite words was just authentic that when the comedians were riffing, you knew it was happening real time.

There wasn't a rehearsal.

it's just ping pong, which made it really pop.

So I see why it went on.

Right.

The green room basically, you know, bring it out, bring it out front.

So what, um,

Well, I guess we should mention before we get going away is you have a book, right?