to dennis miller plus one we're joined by comedian tom papa also a great radio he's got a little garraway and him i find he works on many mediums and there's something about his contemplative nature that for me makes him very watchable very listenable and you know like it's wise and it also doesn't great there's not a lot of staccato to it you're doing great as the book and other reasons to stay alive tom i have met you recently in life or we've talked i met you at cherry years ago to get we don't know each other well but i'm wondering when to just start where to just start to tell me about your birth as a comedian. i started on. june 12th 1903 in the new york city i was i graduated college i always want to be a comic when i was a kid like 7th grade was when it i discovered that there was a such there was such a thing as comedians like grown ups who work comics you know willis and sue who's your let's get small let's get small but steve martin and in the same week then it was like with my friends older brother so it was like so cool i mean understand the jokes i just saw them laughing at