why am i up against bruce springsteen's and melissa etheridge's entire body of work? my one hour? >> larry: jimmy fallon is going to be here tomorrow night. maybe we'll talk him into, is there still time to influence -- >> yeah, i'm sure price waterhouse will love that. >> larry: let's get into politics. were you always political? >> i think growing up in, like, the washington, d.c./maryland area. because we moved there. my father was in the military. i think, you know, i was just so exposed to it, it's just what's around. so i was involved and interested. and then as i got older, i just found it all fascinating. and, and such a -- full of hypocrisy. that's the best comedy to me. is when you're pointing fingers at, you know, at society and at our system so -- >> larry: speaking of hypocrisy, let's go right to it. ken mehlman, the former chairman of the republican -- >> he's family. i didn't know. >> larry: he's one of you. >> he's one of me. >> larry: he came out of the closet. he came out against prop 8. what do you make of that? you mention hypocrisy. >> right, that's the whole

. >> in a 2005 interview with "dateline's" stone phillips, melissa etheridge, a breast cancer survivorndidly about using medical marijuana every day during her chemotherapy. >> there's the drug that you take for the pain, but that constipates you so you have to take the constipation drug, but that gives you diarrhea so you need a diarrhea drug. instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, i decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana. i was doing a lot of it at the time for my pain and for my symptoms and the minute i didn't feel it, i stopped. >> do you worry at all that talking about this from a medicinal standpoint might encourage recreational use? >> do i worry that that will be abused? yeah. i mean, vicodin's abused. everything that brings pain relief is abused. but does that mean, because vicodin is abused do they keep it away from people? no. they prescribe it. put the laws on it. prescribe it. >> it's an argument that's gaining ground across the country but in a place like california where dispensaries advertise in magazines, access to marijuana is easier than ever