i was saying to someone before in the silent film daying, you know charlie chaplain, keeton would make their films and since there would be no sound they would be doing routines and the crew would be laughing hysterically and they could time their routines and they were getting the satisfaction that you're talking about, i can't do that. >> reporter: you certainly got the satisfaction at the oscars this year. you were performable -- performing for the first time. >> good audience. >> they were a good crowd. >> they were a good crowd but they were out for the night, its was a festive occasion. logic tells you they would be a good audience. >> thank you so much, that makes up for the strip search. >> were you nervous not having done stand up for a long time. >> i did thousands of nightclubs and television so this was not a new thing to me. >> reporter: hollywood ending like all of your films are sprinkles with one liners. do you picture yourself doing that? >> i get a big kick out of it and i sometimes can't wait to do the joke publicly because i know everyone else will enjoy it. and usu

matt is still chafing after doing his best as air jordan, natalie and her son did charlie chaplain and the kid and this morning al roker is recreating man's first step on the moon. >> do you know who has the best selling album of the year? is it justin bieber, adele? believe it or not it's lionel richie and he is here for a live concert out on our plaza this morning. we're looki forward to that. let's begin with that single winning ticket in the third largest lottery jackpot in u.s. history. wdiv joins us from lapier, mir began. what can you tell us? >> a little town called lapeer, michigan, just outside of michigan, one ticket worth $337 million in the powerball game sold right inside the sunoco station i am standing in. the powerball jackpot, there were so many sales overnight the jackpot number jumped about $27 million. people are seeing all the media, they're whipping out their tickets. they're thinking one of their neighbors is getti up, they're checking their numbers. they want to see if they have won. if they do the lump sum, $241 million is what somebody is waking up to this mo

charlie chaplain and -- helped design her set. she baptized marilyn monroe. -- she said -- this is where it gets scandalous. she said she had been kidnapped and held for ransom, she was missing for five weeks she was found in mexico, on the border of mexico. and she said, "i was kidnapped and held for ransom for five weeks." and the district attorney said, "no, you weren't. you were with your married lover. the sound engineer up at your temple up in carmel." >> jimmy: scandal! [ laughter ] yeah. >> so -- >> jimmy: what year? >> this was 1926, but she was the first mega super star in the world. and she did things women never did before and very few women have done since. i'm fascinated by her, just historically. >> jimmy: so -- you write this idea for this broadway musical. this is ten years ago. >> 12. >> jimmy: 12 years ago. >> i'm slow. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: but that's great, though. it's not like -- a local play, this is broadway. >> well it has been local and you do it the right way, you do your little local things. and then you have your -- >> jimmy: wo

natalie and her son struck a pose as charlie chaplain.re-create an iconic image from the first lunar landing. >> i thought you were going to do the "honey mooners ". >> with natalie gone, we want to get the news from cameron hall. >> good morning, everyone. a military helicopter has crashed this morning in southern afghanistan. seven americans and four other coalition service members have been killed. the cause of the crash is right now under investigation. >>> someone in michigan is feeling very lucky this morning after a single winning ticket has been sold in a $337 million powerball jackpot drawing. the odds of picking that winning ticket, 1 in 175 million. and the worst nationwide outbreak of west nile disease in eight years is leading to drastic action. dallas has declared a local state of disaster and we'll begin aerial spraying of pesticides to combat the virus. this year's outbreak is centered in texas where west nile has infected more than 450 people and caused more than half of the nation's 26 fatalities. >>> a parasailing accid

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she and her son will step into the past as charlie chaplain and the kid. and we haven't checked in with "today's" professionals since london. today they are back and loaded for bear on hot topics. let's start with presidential politics and a campaign that seems to be nastier by the day. peter alexander traveling with the romney campaign in columbus, ohio. peter, good morning to you. >> matt, good morning to you. these campaigns seem to be particularly at edge right now, all wound up, each saying it's outraged with the other. romney wrapping up a four-day bus tour, accusing the president of running an angry and desperate campaign. the obama campaign shooting back saying romney seemed unhinged. wrapping up his four-day bus tour in ohio. >> so mr. president, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to chicago, and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting america. >> reporter: mitt romney didn't hold back, trying to shame the obama campaign for its negative tone in a speech laced with fiery attacks of his own. >> he demonizes some, he panders to