i remember, iremember was it 1988 where i wrote a feature article about you >> right. >> and coming back home to the churches that pu grew up in and you grew up in and becoming a pastor. you provedthat you can be an honorable man and come back home and be honored by your congregates when you were baptized. >> it was great. you know thatwhole history, you live down the street from the church and you have been there how long? >> i have been there, where i live now? >> uh-huh. >> i live two blocks from where i went to kindergarten and now i am 71-year-old now. so i amstill there. >> now, i saw something on your 70th birthday. tell us about that. >> yeah, i was so proud to receive an honor, recognition by the city of officials on my 70th birthday. they were honoringthe work that my wife and i have done and are still doing as colonial of newspaper being an advocate and 45 years have been mare. >> she's one of the original freedom writer. we went tobaltimore and dc, i and just met the mayor who's the national president of u.s. congress of mayor. well, she's from baltimore and i told her about

iremember every complement have gotten since i was five.ember one of the women came up to me and said, you're really good at this. that kind of stayed with me. years later, when i got the idea for "curb." charlie: did you have to muster the courage to go up, or were you sealed to take the audience as you found them doing standup? larry: yeah, i once had this dream where there was a war going on in my house. i was upstairs sleeping and i heard the sound of cannons and gunfire downstairs in the living room, ok? in my dream, i wake up and say , but -- what the hell is going on? i go downstairs and there is like a war. people in army uniforms. there are different sides and i ducked behind the couch. all of a sudden, there is a little stage area with a microphone in the living room. this big house that i lived in -- it was not my real house, but this dream house. through the fire and the gunfire going over my head, a guy comes up to me, one of the soldiers points a gun at my head and says , get up and do a set. [laughter] i said what? charlie: o