Mark Halperin

that a fair amount and I like comedy a lot too.

I'm really interested in the craft of comedy.

So I watch a lot of stand-up, I watch a lot of like avant-garde type experimental comedy stuff.

My friend, Noam, who's been on the program, Dorman, owns the Comedy Cellar.

And so I go there and I just, like I said, I like humor like most people, but I like the craft of comedy.

I like understanding

uh the cadence of it the craft of it and uh and the production of it uh whether it's live or recorded I'm really interested in that and and uh like to I'm not a natural broadcaster I currently host three shows or four shows but I'm not a natural broadcaster it's not my strength Peter Jennings was a great mentor to me uh and taught me a lot and I'm so grateful to him because he was one of the greatest broadcasters I think literally in the history of television

and he was generous with his time.

So one of the things I do, you say it's not my spare time, it's work, but I really am fascinated by great broadcasters, whether they're comedians or musicians or news people.

And so I like studying the craft both of performance and then also of production.

Really hard.

Peter, as I said, was my mentor and so generous to me.

And

I could tell you a million stories.

I won't about all the things he did for me.

I did a lot for him too.

We worked really well together.

He had a great competition with Brokaw and Rather.

And again, if you're a younger person, it's hard to appreciate.

They were just such titans.