half his writing staff is former "lampoon."ew subversive references to their alma mater make their way into "simpsons" episodes. >> i'm in! >> maybe i'll get a little respect once i get that harvard diploma. >> al jean: i'll be honest, i read scripts to hire people, and-- i'll read a script and i'll go, "oh, that's great." and then i'll look at the background of the person, and i'll go, "oh, no, 'lampoon.' i didn't want to hire another one." >> wertheim: why, "oh, no?" >> jean: well, because i want the show to be much more diverse. >> wertheim: you're not actively seeking out "lampoon" alumni? >> jean: never, never actively. >> wertheim: we found a motley crew when we visited the castle last year, but the "lampoon" pipeline to tv writers' rooms has been called a mafia, one that favors "lampoon" alumni to the exclusion of more diverse voices. >> spiro: when alumni come back, they're almost all men. sometimes they all feel like clones of each other. it's like, white men of varying ages who are into comedy, and you just feel like,

the national lampoon" which was the magazine in audio form. bigger fame, people like bill murray. a lot of the "saturday night live" people started out as national lampoon people. >> let's do 20 face laps. >> gilda and john did this show in this sort of weird space under the time life building. >> they're the cast of the new "national lampoon" show which opens this friday at the new palladium cabaret. >> and then lorne michaels came in and poped all these people. >> gilda radner, john bellucci and -- >> lorraine new man. >> lorne michaels pitched it as a cross between "monty python" and "60 minutes." he said, it's going to work. >> for outstanding comedy, variety or music series, nbc's saturday night". >> i'd like to thank the city of new york for the correct combination of rejection and "s. >> i'd like to thank the city of new york for the correct combination of rejection and alienation which keeps the comedy spirit alive. >> when something really revolutionary happens, when you first see it, it should look wrong. "saturday night live" when y

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. >> reporter: franklin even playfully lampooned herself. >> there's a snickers commercial that she'snickers bar. >> oh, just eat a snickers, please. >> why? >> every time you get hungry, you turn into a diva. just eat it so we can all coexist -- >> eww, turn into a diva! >> uh-huh. >> with the snickers commercial, it was her tipping the hat to, yes, i know i'm a little bit of a diva, but that's how i am, love me or leave me. anybody who worked with her knew that there was some stuff that was going to come with that, but it was always positive. >> it didn't bother any member of the family, we sort of laughed at it. it was just a name that you know, was given to her. but to us, she was aunty. >> reporter: in a very literal sense, aretha franklin also wrapped herself in her divaness. >> diva's also in the attire, the clothes, the furs, the jewelry, the beautiful handbags and the hair always being done. i love that about her, i'm always excited to see what the next cool diva thing that i'm going to experience is. ♪ gonna sing a little song >> reporter: her powerhouse performances like th

real-life "national lampoon's"ghoneymoon. [ laughter ] i'm not exaggerating.my -- what? >> uh, yeah. uh-huh. >> jimmy: in an rv? >> in an rv that i got my husband for his birt so, here's what happened. i made -- i made a boo-boo. i, for his birthday was like, "you know what? we love rv-ing. i'm gonna get him, likift card to" -- you know those rvs that you see that have, like, a dog on the ? side of th like, they're like, "rv america." i'm not plugging anything. but you know what i'm talking about, right?>> immy: yeah. exactly, yeah. >> okay. not the most luxury of rvs, but fine. and i was like, "clearly, this is a great birthday gift." gave it to him for his birthday. not thinking that my husband ioh going to go,that's our honeymoon." [ laughter ] and i was like, "wait, no! no, no." >> jimmy: you're like, "no. i was thinking about you. i'"not thinking about not u >> that was, like, two days -- yes, this not a honeymoon. >> jimmy: that's your gift. >> and he was like, "honeymoon." and i was like, "oh, boy." so, we're in our, like, little tin can on wheels and m

them,m, especially someone articulate and popular and have a sense of humor and has the audacity to lampoonldn't take it so they wanted to shut him down. they fund these organizations dedicated to destroying him and making things up about him. >> sean: they spent millions. >> now the same kinds of outlets have gone after you. >> sean: millions of dollars. >> they make things up, they exaggerate, they take things out of context and he has hads to single-handedly fight back these people as he has paved the way for thousands, literallyav thousands of other people whosa have been generated from his example. you are one of them, as you have said, and he has shown the way, but in the beginning it was lonely. he was out there and he was on talk radio and no one was there to defend him, no one was there to fund his defense of himself, but he has truly inspired so many people to speak up and to get in his medium and it's really been a wonderful thing. >> sean: interesting side note. thank you for joining us. when he started in '88, there were, like, 200 talk radio stations in the country. now there

the phrase giuliani was lampooned for using yesterday on nbc's meet the press. while there are fresh reports in washington post in "the new york times" that giuliani and the rest of the president's legal team simply don't know what white house counsel donald mcgahn said when he spent 30 hours talking to mueller's investigators at the president's direction, which, we should add, giuliani pressed back in an interview with fox, telling martha maccallum that he has found out what mcgahn said and there was nothing, giuliani says, that infiltrated the president and collusion or obst. >> i knew not to worry about it. if the president said anything criminal to the council of the white house, mcgahn would not be there now. mcgahn, as a matter of legal ethics and law would have to quit. he's a very ethical guy, he's a very careful guy, i can't imagine sitting around the white house for six months with a president who he thinks committed a federal crime. he would be -- that will be outrageous. >> the president declined to say if he would strip for security clearance of mue

so they deserve lampooning. >> this was an awful morning.d put maxi pad on adhesive side up. oh, come on, you've done it. >> there is so much comedy in the little details of life. it's just taking a magnifying glass and throwing it out to the audience. >> well, that's sort of my job, to think about stuff that a lot of us are too busy for most of the time. little things that occur to us, we have universal ground, you know? like, did you ever belch and almost puke? >> we think that we're alone and then a comedian steps on stage and says, have you every noticed -- kaboom, it explodes. and in that moment we all connect. which is an amazing charge, really. it's kind of an adrenaline rush to connect on that kind of a level. >> we have to fight these battles, we're all alone in the bathroom. alone. whatever goes wrong, you have to handle it. ever flush a toilet in big party and water starts coming up? this is the most frightening moment in the life of a human being. >> it's illumination on something that was right in front of you. it was right ther

. >> reporter: franklin even lampooned herself. >> there is a snickers commercial that she's wonderfulchy or divas, unless they have a snickers bar. >> every time you get hungry, just eat it. you turn into a diva. ♪ land of the free >> reporter: she may have been a diva, no one can deny that she earned it. ♪ of the brave ♪ >> love that moment when she just steals the show with "natural woman." >> carole wrote it. she's like, it is not my song any longer. but, you know, as dan said, she earned it. >> she did. divo is you, right? >> oh, completely. aretha, sing us out. arrow th aretha, sing us out. ♪ around here, nobody evreally? it i didn't do it so when i heard they added ultra oxi to the cleaning power of tide, i knew it was just what we needed so now we can undo all the tough stains that nobody did dad? i didn't do it it's got to be tide ayep, and my teeth are yellow.? time for whitestrips. crest glamorous white whitestrips are the only ada-accepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. and they whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. crest. healthy, beauti

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