you wrote the peter pan books with ridley. how do you like working with others? >> i love it. i enjoy it but you can bounce it off. when riding alone, what goes through -- when you are writing alone, you sit and think you are a fraud. anyone who writes comedy knows that feeling peter i am not funny. i do not have skills. i used of all the jokes. that is kind of how you start your day. sometimes that is how you end your day. >> sometimes that is the entire day. [laughter] >> you look at the window of people going to work in have jobs and know what they're going to do that day. you feel so envious. but then you think, but i would have to wear something besides my underwear. so i will stay here and keep trying to write jokes. >> also, you can wear somebody else's underwear. getting started in a comedy. [laughter] >> having a background in live tv teaches you a lot of things. one is that nothing is that precious. the audience is coming in at 11:30 p.m. on saturday night. if you do not have the script, people turn on nbc, there will be a black screen. you get a certain amount of ad

but the rumors -- wrote to his friend, matthew ridley, quote, not much for the interest of america that peace should be made at present. think about that. not much in our interests that peace should be made. it is in our interest that the war be prolonged. meanwhile, up at the camp in newburgh, the officers muttering and murmuring, there arrived a new general. his name was hoe ratio gates. horatio gates was not a man much troubled by principle or loyalty. early in the war he had distinguished him as the commander of the american army at the battle of saratoga. a great victor in saratoga where he ge de feeted general behr goin. we sometimes forget about that year, 1777. general washington retreated from brandywine, germantown, and lost philadelphia. washington's reputation was sinking fast. and there were those in the congress, among them samuel adams and others, new englanders in particular, who thought that gates might make a better commander than general washington. and there were rumors, maybe not a plot, that's a little much, but certainly there were plans being made to replace gate

it was produced specifically for the super bowl by director ridley scott.ome awe of doing "blade runner." he was at the top of his game. they really saw this as an opportunity. steve jobs is behind it. but there was a new board then. john scully had just come in. there was a whole different thing that came on. then they decided to kill it. but this one airing survived because they felt that strongly it could be something for the company, making a statement that they could be different than what had existed in the computer world. >> this would be a catch phrase. if i said wassup, you know exactly what i'm talking about. >> yes. >> hello. >> wassup? >> nothing. watching the game, having a buzz. what's up with you? >> nothing. watching the game, having a buzz. >> true, true. >> wassup. >> that's what you remember. it becomes a popular catch phrase. >> these it. if it can become part of culture and go on, look, back then we didn't have the internet to pass things around. you wanted people on monday in their office around the water cooler says wass uwassup and i

you talk to gary ridley in my state of oklahoma as to what they would do in terms of our program that we already have on line, we would have to default on some contracts, we would have to be in a situation where we're not able to do the things that are in our five-year plan in the state of oklahoma. we think things out in oklahoma and we over -- go over the state and make determinations, and it's done outside the political system, done by people in charge of dilt transportation districts. that's about the way we do it. i can tell you right now, it's a life-threatening issue. if we are dropping down by 34%, it's going to be a serious problem. i would suggest that every member of the senate before they make final decisions on this bill, call their -- their state director of highways or whatever they call it in their particular state and talk to them. talk to the people. talk to your state legislators, democrats and republicans, conservatives, liberals alike. this is the one area where they'll agree. in my state of oklahoma they're in agreement. that want a highway bill. they say this is

you probably all know is the author also of black hawk down and the basis for the movie directed by ridley scott. mark was a journalist first 1979 to 2003. he was of the philadelphia inquirer and for three seasons he covered football, is the right? >> that's right. islamic he's written for the new yorker, the atlantic, sports illustrated, of rolling stone, and i have to mention that wikipedia notes he read the electric kool-aid acid test. >> i was struck as well but not to become a jobless -- journalist. >> t. j. camapana who to my mind is as close as you can get to the digital sherlock holmes. he's also the senior manager for the investigations of microsoft and digital crime unit and he gave me a sticker. before mark talks i want to just talk a little about our subject the history of the worm probably most of new art familiar with it came from a trends fiction novel written by john in 1975 in which he deposited something called the tapeworm, and the wonderful thing about that book, in particular with respect to conficker is that he sketched out an offer of syrian regime that controlled th

you probably all know is the author also of black hawk down and the basis for the movie directed by ridley scott. mark was a journalist first 1979 to 2003. he was of the philadelphia inquirer and for three seasons he covered football, is the right? >> that's right. islamic he's written for the new yorker, the atlantic, sports illustrated, of rolling stone, and i have to mention that wikipedia notes he read the electric kool-aid acid test. >> i was struck as well but not to become a jobless -- journalist. >> t. j. camapana who to my mind is as close as you can get to the digital sherlock holmes. he's also the senior manager for the investigations of microsoft and digital crime unit and he gave me a sticker. before mark talks i want to just talk a little about our subject the history of the worm probably most of new art familiar with it came from a trends fiction novel written by john in 1975 in which he deposited something called the tapeworm, and the wonderful thing about that book, in particular with respect to conficker is that he sketched out an offer of syrian regime that controlled th

you probably all know is the author also of black hawk down and the basis for the movie directed by ridley scott. mark was a journalist first 1979 to 2003. he was of the philadelphia inquirer and for three seasons he covered football, is the right? >> that's right. islamic he's written for the new yorker, the atlantic, sports illustrated, of rolling stone, and i have to mention that wikipedia notes he read the electric kool-aid acid test. >> i was struck as well but not to become a jobless -- journalist. >> t. j. camapana who to my mind is as close as you can get to the digital sherlock holmes. he's also the senior manager for the investigations of microsoft and digital crime unit and he gave me a sticker. before mark talks i want to just talk a little about our subject the history of the worm probably most of new art familiar with it came from a trends fiction novel written by john in 1975 in which he deposited something called the tapeworm, and the wonderful thing about that book, in particular with respect to conficker is that he sketched out an offer of syrian regime that controlled th