of course, no one is made so powerful quite like chevy chase, when first saw chevy chase performing thed, the edgy news show saturday night. it's called saturday night, its first season, not saturday night live. it took on that third word. later, he cringed, but he also wondered if this actually might be an opportunity to use humor to embrace it and advance the administration's goals. and so i, gerald ford, invited chevy chase as a guest to the radio television correspondents association dinner in march of 1976. and there he made this announcement that ford send his own representative to to join chase's show the following month. and so ron nelson did exactly that guest hosting saturday night on april 17. the episode begins with a pre-taped by gerald ford from the oval office. he opened up episode with its signature live from new york. it's saturday night. and so he did inject himself slightly into that show. but it was really ron nessen, who was the guest host who was the star of many of the different skits that he was in. and it's a really fascinating episode that i encourage you to wa

there was no attempt to make chevy chase look like gerald ford the only way he conveyed that he was him was the way that he drop stuff and that's how you knew he was gerald ford but this is a big deal that the president was made on tv and that percentage of him as a stumble bomb stuck with him. unfortunate tagging. >> talk to us about technology. of course the advent of radio and television. how does this change the relationship between popular culture and our presidents. >> these technologies allow presidents to go over the heads of whatever gatekeepers there are. and go directly to people. franklin roosevelt when he was governor of new york he regularly use radio because he feared that the editors of the major newspapers in new york were all republicans and biased against him. and then he famously used the fireside chat when he was in the white house to give over moments of great importance to the nation. didn't actually overuse them. use them infrequently because he did not want to wear out his welcome. he would go forward another two decades and john f kennedy who used television br

i'm chevy chase . he >> welcome back to headliners. i'm chevy chase.ck to headliners. i'm chevy chase . he is steve i'm chevy chase. he is steve martin and he is martin little. and together we are the three amigos who get white. why did you not? we practised this all the day. well, anyone get suddenly pretending that you don't know what. god, steve, i can't believe who's who's martin little. >> it's martin short. >> it's martin short. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> there's no you just invented a character for me. like stuart little. that's a mouse. that's bad . bad. >> my bad. okay. >> my bad. okay. >> the bleeped out on the first time i saw it, they had to bleep out one of their jokes. and martin has the joke of martin short has the joke of that's can you that's a mail plane. how can you tell? plane? because tell? it's a mail plane? because you can see it's little. and tell? it's a mail plane? because you (bleepedt's little. and tell? it's a mail plane? because you (bleeped outittle. and tell? it's a mail plane? because you (bleeped out the. and tell? it's a ma

no intent to make chevy chase look like gerald ford. the only way that he conveyed that he was supposed to be gerald ford was the way he stumbled around the white house. he dropped the stuff, he fell. that's how you knew he was gerald ford. but this was a big, big deal that the president was made fun of on tv, and that perception of ford, the great athlete, as a stumbled bum, something that really stuck with him. i think that was an unfortunate tagging, but that's how it worked out. >> talk to us about technology. of course, there's the advent of radio, then the advent of television. how does this change the relationship between popular culture and our presidency? >> these technologies allow presidents to go over the heads of whatever gatekeepers there are through mainstream media, and go directly to people. franklin roosevelt, when he was governor of new york, he regularly used radio because he feared that the editors of the major newspapers in new york were all republicans against him . different how we view mainstream newspapers toda

it started with chevy chase, but, my gosh, norm mcdonald. go down the list.litics of this. he said, i was on a ride with dennis and he is sitting in the backseat and he's got a notepad and we're like driving, like a couple of miles. he's just sitting there writing. we're like, what are you doing? oh, i'm just writing jokes and he read them the jokes, and he said they all could have gone on any show anywhere at any time. again, a fabulously -- fabulously talented actor who, of course, we don't hear that much from anymore. >> oh, so funny. so funny, and so great in that chair. you mentioned norm mcdonald, too. his head writer on "weekend update," jim downey, was on conan's podcast this week. if you love comedy, love "snl", it is worth a listen because he goes through sort of step by step walks through how you write the jokes and why norm a wags so funny and good. it is if you go down the list you have seth meyers, tina and amy, a cradle of greatness for a very great time. >> oh, my gosh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> and dennis was one of the funniest guys in the world

host: this is michelle, chevy chase, maryland, independent line. just wanted to respond to the woman from new jersey talking about the indigenous and palestine. the canon nights predated -- the cannonites redated them. -- predated them. it is apartheid and these are people fighting the most advanced weaponry with rocks. our support has done nothing to help. i think it needs to be an international forum and need to focus on the fact that this is basically an extermination of the people. i don't want my tax dollars being any part of it. host: this is the opinion of the wall street journal, the lead editorial looks at events there. they say the response is israel's to make and deserves the west's resort -- support. they say the temptation of the white house will be to give israel a week or so to respond with a free hand and then lean on the netanyahu government to stand down. that is always the u.s. pattern but shouldn't be this time. if war breaks out wider, will have to provide the support necessary to destroy hamas. one more call, this is from bill

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