flip wilson was very -- these are the guys i started with -- knew every line, george carlin said, this is how i'll do it. rodney danger field, said i'll find a phrase "i don't get no respect" i went out and talked. d you're talking don't get no to a friend sitting next to you. to this day all my comedy that is one friend and i guess that's the irreverence. if you and i go to dinner, we have two glasses of wine, i'll say, let me tell you another thing, that's what my comedy is. i get angry that people are so uptight these days, people -- you can't say this, you can't say that. oh, stop it! laugh at it and move on. >> when you said earlier, joan, you think comed,s in your democratic na, it may be, but i've never seen anybody who works as hard as you do to push out these jokes. you're writing -- when i saw that documentary, in your office that huge wall of all of the -- you've cataloged on index cards every joke you've ever written last 50 years. >> i wish i've cataloged 1/16 of every joke. >> a big wall with a lot of cards. >> you think, where are all of the jokes i haven't -- i work --

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