i'm here with lenny, vanessa, and armstrong. we're it talking about blacks in the republican party.ou all a question because there are a lot of cynics out there who would say that black folk join the republican party because the line is shorter, right? you can get to the top of the leadership that you can get on the pundit circuit, write best-selling books if you're willing to expose values as a black person. >> number one you have to show the values are part of your way of life and to go against that criticism you have to show you love black people and america more than the republican party. all you can do is try to help people with the policies and the philosophies that you epous spouse. if you can't do that you are what people are calling you. >> i take question with the premise of what it is you said. if we take off the label republican and take off the label democrat and ask most people which views do you align more with, more black people align ideologically with the republican party. the difference between us and them is we -- >> on certain issues. >> on most of the issues, o

and i was struck, though, with a show with 162 references, how much like lenny bruce that was, which was, lenny bruce used to use racial epithets over and over and over again and saying it doesn't mean anything. take away their power. and you absolutely captured that today. and yet, if your mission is to sort of push the envelope, to do what others wouldn't do, to find comedy in new and different places, will you run out? i mean, are there any standards left? which is exactly why-- obviously now, it's not like we can do a show-- "oh, let's do a show where we say, you know, the "f" word 162 times." you know, it's like it's-- you've got to look for new ways to do it. [voice quivers] but, you know-- (stone) no, but sometimes-- we're always fascinated by-- the reverence, like, "oh, you're doing this, and this is new." and we're like, "thanks, but there have been "a lot of people doing this stuff, "from norman lear with all in the family to lenny bruce to george carlin." i mean, it isn't, brand-new to say the "f" word, you know? (divney) you know, when married with children was on fox, th

what happened to lenny bruce? you cannot take yourself seriously. i dig being a court jester. seinfeld told me once the sitcom was like a day job. "i am a stand-up comedian." he has the biggest tv show in the history of the medium and felt it was a cottage industry and he was really a stand up. i remember thinking the same thing. i did it because not everybody can get in. at some point you have to step outside that curtain and potentially eat it in front of other human beings. you can have all the council in the world. they stop when you get to the edge of the curtain. [laughter] so that is what i did about it. tavis: that is why i did dennis miller. the new piece is called "dennis miller: the big speech." that is our show for tonight. thanks for tuning in. until next time, keep the faith. >> and exactly what is the problem with global warming again? you are spending christmas day golfing because it is 82 degrees out? what is the problem there, you know? one man and of the world as you know it is another man's "it is nice out." >> for more information on today's show, visit ta

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birth, the resurrection, jesus' miracles and he sees jesus as a sort of jewish socrates, almost a lenny bruce character, is that right. >> that's right. >> you find no evidence in any of your scholarship, by the way, that jesus was a revolutionary, correct? interi find counterevidence. >> counterevidence? if yes is it he was not a revolutionary nor an insurrectionist. >> not that i can see from the documents. >> was jesus a conservrvive? >> i don't think so. >> well, in what sense was he unorthodox? >> well, i think that in what sense is what he saying somehow alarming or gripping or revolutionary? >> did he support the tora. >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. so he did root himself in sources, correct? >> he was a jew. >> that's what i'm getting at, was he not basically conservative. he was -- go ahead. >> well, just it depends on which jew you ask. but it's -- you know, he's certainly within the -- a penumbra of typical jewish practice in the first century but there's something that makes him stand out and that's his belief that the kingdom of god is at hand. >> i hate to say it because this sho

. >> that's the lenny bruce. >> that's rough. >> the routine of all the boys of dunkirk and then cameerwards. >> yeah. >> how do you -- what do you do? >> you have to try to find a segue. >> yeah. >> you try to -- >> or you comment on it. if you're in the moment. talk about that environment. because we have all done the corporate gigs where you follow the tragic video or somebody gets up there with one leg and they have a sob story and the room is quiet. now the comedy stylings. you comment on how ridiculous it is. >> what do you do? i'm an oncologist. thank you. move on. the worst -- the worst profession is an oncologist. right? in an audience. >> no! proctologist. >> no. that's funny. >> that is funny. >> oncology is not. >> yeah. >> dog oncology is really pitiful. nobody will laugh. >> i have to get another quick break in. more joan rivers, kathy griffin, joy behar. phyllis diller will be joining us later. >> and piers morgan. >> too dangerous. working in the garden, painting. my doctor suggested spiriva right then. announcer: spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled maintenance trea

birth, the resurrection, jesus' miracles and he sees jesus as a sort of jewish socrates, almost a lennybruce character, is that right. >> that's right. >> you find no evidence in any of your scholarship, by the way, that jesus was a revolutionary, correct? interi find counterevidence. >> counterevidence? if yes is it he was not a revolutionary nor an insurrectionist. >> not that i can see from the documents. >> was jesus a conservative? >> i don't think so. >> well, in what sense was he unorthodox? >> well, i think that in what sense is what he saying somehow alarming or gripping or revolutionary? >> did he support the tora. >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. so he did root himself in sources, correct? >> he was a jew. >> that's what i'm getting at, was he not basically conservative. he was -- go ahead. >> well, just it depends on which jew you ask. but it's -- you know, he's certainly within the -- a penumbra of typical jewish practice in the first century but there's something that makes him stand out and that's his belief that the kingdom of god is at hand. >> i hate to say it because this show

especially when self-defense arguments falter is common for the pro war forces to trot out the evil lenni, and the existence of an evil enemy does what self-defense alone maybe can't do. it suggests that there is at loose a force that is demonic and diabolical. that we can't negotiate with, we can't deal with, we can't eliminate its cause is because the devil is a trans historical figure. if people hate us because as bush said after line 11, they hate us because we are free. the key to us because we are good and they are not, if they hate us because they are crazed by power, unlike us who couldn't care less about power, this what psychologists would call the rejection of our unwanted tendencies on the enemy at least create a kc-10 like figure in american history is full of such figures beginning from the indian days and on the figures who don't exist in history and therefore are not amenable to the historical solutions, not only to the negotiation, they are not to any sorts of reform because the concept is that did want to destroy us because their own destructive nature and that is st. di

>> yeah, hopefully there's another "rescue me" comedy tour, which is dennis leary, lenny clarke, kennythe name of his band. when i saw you guys last time with cam neely, "comics come home." >> yeah. >> jimmy: fun for the -- benefit for the cam neely foundation -- >> did you have a good time? you had great set. >> jimmy: i had the best time in the world. >> i tell you -- i love doing it. what i don't like when we do those big theatres is the big screens on the theatre 'cause my mole looks like a ring ding. i just -- i look up -- [ laughter ] and i'm like -- i actually said -- at one theatre, i said, "i have to get that checked." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i saw some imax once. it was about a guy who climbed mount everest or something like that and he had a cold sore or something -- >> really? >> jimmy: and that just must have been the worst, 'cause it's on imax. it's gotta be like the largest cold sore i've ever seen in my life. it's so gross. [ laughter ] i -- you want -- the guy was probably like, [ foreign accent ] "are you sure that we can't shoot this next week? [ laughter ] are you su

we came outside to talk to really nice people, including lenny.o vince vaughn and kevin yams yesterday about their new comedy called "dilemma" and we spoke to the man who directed that movie, good friend of this show, director ron howard. >> and how would you like to be just 14 years old and already have oscar buzz for your first major motion picture. we'll talk to the star of "true grit" about that. >> a lot of stars in the house and among them, jimmy fallon here, co-hosting with hoda kotb. there he is on tape. we'll see him live coming up. >>> also ahead, a little note for you. tomorrow marks 59 years, the anniversary of the start of the "today" show. >> wow! we are old. >> that means next year, we begin our 60th year of broadcasting. we will mark it with great highlights from the past of this program. stay tuned for that. >> sounds like a lot of fun. speaking of special events, announcing a homemade chili cookoff. want to find the most original chili in the country. submit your recipe at todayshow.com by friday, january 28th. if you are picked,

lenny, we have more snow, bearing down on the northeast this morning. a potent winter storm.he coast. these fine people come back 24 hours from now, you know what, they could be standing in as much as five or eight inches of snow. >> that's a lot of snow. >> isn't that good news? >> you know what, i like the snow. it's winter time. >> i'm matt lauer with meredith vieira. trying to kick your family's addiction to technology. >> meet a family that went six months without any cell phone or television or video games or computer screens, anything with a screen, wasn't. would they do it again. >> we'll talk about the negative impact that divorce has on children. a new study shows there may be a link between divorce and thoughts of suicide, especially among boys whose parents divorce. >> okay. >> talking about that study coming up. >> we're going to kick off a two-day series on memory loss. what you can do to help a loved one starting to show signs of losing their memory and if you think you're becoming more forgetful yourself. advice about that. >> let us go inside, ann standing by