(paulson) and i understand monty python was something you did watch that warped you early? yeah, a huge influence. monty python, because, you know, as trey said, all the comedy we grew up with was just so milk toast and just the same. and it was on p.b.s. they showed flying circus on p.b.s. i think it was wednesdays or thursday nights. and i remember, like, setting up a tv in my room just to watch that. and i really don't think we understood every-- we didn't understand a lot of the jokes or a lot of what was going on. but it was like, "what is this? this is new; this makes me"--you know. as a kid, you're intrigued by it. you don't want to be given this, you know, sitcom kind of--you know, like today's sitcoms that's just ring-the-bell humor and everything's the same. you know, kids want to be-- have this sense of discovery of, like, "i don't understand what's going on here, and i want to know what's going on." and that's, you know, watching python at ages five and six. in fact, you know, i thought that the way-- they talked that way because it was funny, not because there

the truth is the point of reference is the dick van dyke show, monty python. >> jon is not read a singlee books. he doesn't read my books. he doesn't even read the real books. the information is passed to him by all the smart women who work backstage. (cheers and applause) >> tell me, tell me. >> what! what do you want? >> jon: how are things in the world of fake fire fighting? (laughter) >> --. >> jon: i heard are you going to the smithsonian s that true, your character going to the smithsonian, is that true. >> my character is being inducted into the smithsonian institute on thursday. >> jon: why? why is that happening? >> jon, this is the same question i am going to ask the smithsonian people on thursday. >> jon: how do they let you know, you just get a letter, this is a fund-raising scam, how much money does it cost you. >> you get -- listen if i could have paid my way into the smithsonian i would have done it years ago. you can't. they just put you in. i don't know how it happened. i done even know -- i think they actually think it is dafoe. they think dafoe plays the guy so when i

it's like a monty python sketch. >> you know, hamburglar shows up, that

hundred miles of you to see about twenty seven days in you going to publicize the people invited monty python lead species people started the bait of a dialogue sleep just. chanting the soldiers way to sleep in some states. twenty years ago in the largest country in. the certificates of books. see me must have been more extremist each began a journey. where did it take them. on. the move. the first spoke to. an. a. welcome back to crosstalk i'm peter lavelle two minds who were talking about the u.n. investigation of the killing of a former lebanese prime minister. ok. ok mona i'd like to go to you again another issue that's being brought up in this program is that who benefits the most from this crime ok and there's so many different variations here some people say it's the israelis and the americans others say it's syria certain factions within lebanon of course has blah you know logically in your mind who benefited from this why it was done. those who benefit it is those who don't want to see a stable levanon and this has been going on for twenty five years and we don't know who it is but w

>> here we go with the monty python references. >> it did remind us of that iconic scene from monty pythonly grail." i'm not dead yet, sir! >> that's what 83-year-old helen had to tell the federal government over and over again. they stopped sending her social security checks. the federal government said they thought she was dead. >> as you can plainly see, she's not dead. >> that's right. >> after showing her birth certificate and driver's license, helen was declared born again, miraculously. at least in the eyes of the deral government. she is from washington state. >> my home state. when she looked into this, she had to call and say, what's going on? the checks aren't coming. i'm still around. >> they said, prove it. >> they said, here's the thing. we have you marked as dead. since 1997. >> yeah, this has been going on for a while. can you believe it? 1 in every 200 entries in the social security database is false because of errors by federal workers. not always because somebody's presumed to be dead. you know, all the problems with social security, you'd think this is one they could ma

it's like a "monty python" sketch.way when you hit someone with a pie, what message are you sending? i disapprove of your actions, or, your face is about to get something delicious in it? in other business news borders, which is the country's second largest campaign of bookstores announced yesterday it will liquidate its stock and close all its stores nationwide. which, i don't think this is what the republicans meant by closing our borders, but what are you going to do? [ applause ] but i'll tell you something, and if i can be serious for a moment, this is what happens when oprah retires. we all stop reading. [ laughter ] borders has been around for a long time. there's one right down the block from us and it's weird to see them going away. i guess people realize that if you order from amazon, there's much slimmer chance of getting a book with a booger wiped inside of it. borders employed more than 10,000 people who will lose their jobs, which is a shame. but i think i figured out a way to save borders. with a couple

. >> there are elements that you could insert into a monty python film.hat we just saw on tv, moments ago, saying, you know, go home and tell their constituents as to what is in this proposal made by the gang of six. they are not going to do this. these are the same people who passed a billion dollar bail out plan based on three pages given to them. now, they are saying we are not going to tell people we have no idea. >> they had no idea on that. then none of them had no idea on what they voted for in the $700 billion stimulus plan or $800 billion. none of them read it. i'm telling you, you are not going reform social security, medicare, the tax system in two weeks. it's chaos. >> it's not possible. you have to get the cbo to score it. it's going to take -- it doesn't happen in two days. it's a complex model. it's going to be days just to get the score. >> a point made earlier in the week, americans at home who don't get the minutae, the folks in congress and the president should be responding to market crises. it feels like they are the ones creating it.