and it was usually alan king. every week it was alan king. and that was the time to elsewhere. dad brought home comedy albums-- >> they had that jazz label. and he would bring you comedy albums. >> you'd listen, listen to the masters and you'd hear the timing and start to develop your own timing but you'd understand what nichols and may were doing live on broadway. you'd understand what jonathan winters was like. and then the 200-year-old man became my baseball. >> rose: became your bible because you listened to those two, carl and mike and said-- mel. >> they originally were carl and mike. and they broke up. mike was with elaine. now that i've been working for a while, they're very good friends of mine, and it really freaks me out they know carl and mel very well. >> because they shaped you when you were a kid. >> you learned two things from them. you learned how to jump go. them and them you learn to be unselfer like carl, you listen and feed. >> rose: you said failure is an important thing for a comedian to understand. >> yeah. >> rose: meaning? >> i think you have to be wil

on larry king meet country star gary alan to me country music is still what monday through friday and pops about what happens on the weekends is taylor swift country is carrie underwood country well i would say no i would say the pop artist making a living in in the country join her i guess i've always put heads about what i should sound like and when and how i should do it and it's probably cost me a lot in hindsight plus we have a gay country star i know that any anything that any blip that i've ever seen from the people that i know it's instantly covered up all next on larry king now. welcome to larry king our special guest is gary our only country music star and platinum selling artist his nine thousand homes said you free we got it right here was released in january he's currently traveling the country with our friend sheryl crow on the free and easy tour how did that come about we did a few acoustic shows together and i. realized she was she had a country album coming out and she's always had like a kind of a kind of a country edge to me anyways and there was something always ki

. >> alan escalante dice, ¿cuÁl es la mejor entrevista que ha hecho? ¿y por quÉ? >> la mejor entrevista, yo dirÍa que fue larry kingÁllese, usted no esta en estados unidos, estÁ en bolivia, usted se escapÓ de cuba al imperio, usted es un latino sin identidad, y el brillo de la entrevista yo no quise que fuera una autodefensa mÍa contra evo morales, sino que Él hiciera catarsis porque yo lo invitÉ al programa para escucharlo a Él. >> mario hernÁndez, ¿quÉ lo enternece, ha llorado por amor? dice. >> yo creo que sÍ, cuando era mÁs joven llorÉ por amor. ahora es un poco mÁs difÍcil llorar por amor, pero sÍ soy un tipo apasionado, lleno de amor y la verdad mucho mÁs equilibrado en cuanto a vida personal y profesional que cuando era mÁs joven. >> ismael, me queda muy poco tiempo, el poder de escuchar, ¿ese es tu secreto? despuÉs de ver algunas de tus entrevistas, yo pensaba, cÓmo le hace Él, tÚ, para sacarle tanto a ellos cuando yo a esos mismos no he podido hacerlo, y creo que la respuesta estÁ aquÍ en el poder de escuchar, ¿no? >> yo creo que sÍ, jorge, yo creo que es, partir, no es una tÉcnica, yo estoy tratando, de d

peter king is stating he thinks the president is bypassing his authority by now turning to congress. another one of obama's critics, florida congressman alangrayson joining me from orlando. he anivention at all. >> after yesterday, did the president say anything to change your mind? >> no. it's not our responsibility. it's not going to do any good. it's dangerous and it's expensive. nothing the president says changes any of those facts. >> what do you mean when you say it won't do any good when you hear secretary kerry spell out letting a dictator like assad go with impunity means it sends a message to other dictators who might have other chemical weapons that they could harm their people as well? >> actually, there's only four countries in the world that have chemical weapons. the largest of the four is the united states. so are we trying to send a message to ourselves? that's not logical. >> i've heard that theory before somehow one country's actions will affect another country's and another country's. it's just the domino argument again. we'll call it the bomino argument. it's not logical, doesn't make any sense. >> when the president a

alan and edith wilson. booktv weekend, look at 's live coverage of the national book festival, and featured authors include kay bailey hutchison. --king ahead to october saying, howldren can you be in congress, he got arrested? you violated the laws. i said, they were bad laws. custom, they were traditions. and we wanted america to be better. we wanted america to live up to the declaration of independence, live up to our creed, make a real our democracy, take it off the paper and make it real. so, when i got arrested that , i felt free, i felt liberated. and today, more than ever before, i feel free and liberated. 150know, abraham lincoln years ago freed the slaves. but it took the modern-day civil rights movement to free and liberate a nation. >> civil rights leader and congressman john lewis will be our in depth guest sunday the sixth and he will take calls and comments for three hours. also schedule, november 3, biographer kitty kelley. december 1, then -- feminism critic christina sommers, and then radio talk show host mark levin. " continues.journal it's good to continue our coverage of the situation in syria we turn to -- host: