he used to produce monty python specials. oh, and he hates mimes. lorne hates mimes. the bulls up a chair and give him this poem with 1100 jokes in it. he opens it. he reads the first joke. egos, u -- he goes, uh-huh, good. then he closes the book. i wrote 1100 jobs over two days, and he reads one joke. i wrote a jokes and the post office was about to issue a stamp commemorating prostitution in the united states. 10 cents, but if you want to lick it, it is a quarter. [laughter] he said, good. good. he said, tell me, how much money do you need to live on? i said, well, i am making $2.75 an hour at the deli. match it. [laughter] he said, well, tell me a little bit more about yourself. acted it to mean before he committed this kind of cash, he wanted to see what he was buying. i said, with the allen is my idol. i love monty python. but if there is one mime on the show, i am out of here, and he gave me a job. [laughter] that was my great. ultimately, hear i am, having written a novel with my childhood hero dave barry. [applause] >> dave barry and alan zweibel, they're not

it was a staple for world war ii service members and featured in that monty python skit and it may becessed but it has a museum. homerel the maker turns out 110 pound of spam in 12 varieties every single year. >>> going to church can get you a discount at a pennsylvania restaurant. bring your bulletin to the kife and get a 10% discount that's not going over well with -- kitchen and get a 10% discount that's not going over with atheist who say it's discrimination. >> rubbed meet wrong way because the implication is that they reward church goers and i am not one. so, i am not as good as the next churchgoer. >> it was an innocent -- churchgoer. >> it was a innocent marketing deal for sundays that's all it was and all it will be. >> the restaurant owner says she will advertise as she sees fit and says she now has plans no plans to get rid of the promotion. there you go. >>> i think back to the spam my grandfather jesse everhart loved that. >> jesse everhart. >> ute used to send me out. >> jess -- used to send me out to get it. >> jesse everhart and spam. >> very hot conditions we will kee

. >> again, as i mentioned, they had, monty python, harry potter.lize how much british culture that we have really, you know, kind of assumed. >> well thought out. >> and the queen. >> the queen. >> out of a helicopter. >> that was amazing and that was so perfectly british because it had the james bond. it had the queen, the korgies she is known to have. it was perfect. >> they sell belated national health care, the kids hopping around with the beds and the nurses dancing. it was great. the michelle obama was there. she had a good time. she told us what her dream had been when she was a little girl. >> a complete fantasy, i would be a gymnast but come on 5' 11". i tried. i was younger. but i loved gymnastics. i was in awe of what those women could do. >> yeah. she has had a good time meeting with team u.s.a. over chateauing mitt romney a little bit. she hasn't made any gaffes. romney saw gaffes in london. then the coverage of the games i don't know, the first one i watched was beach volleyball. what's not to like about women in bism kinis. >> by the

monty python could not have scripted a worst beginning for mitt romney.ave been saying for months he is the most awkward unpolitician like politician i have ever seen. adam you have flown that part of the world i gater from your accident. >> it's true. >> it couldn't have gone much worse could it. it seemed to aleanate the entire country of britain. and he is looking at the backside of 10 downing street which of course isn't what it quite makes over in england. and when he sat with brian williams he is trying to warm mitt romney up saying what about ann, what about the horse. mitt looks terrified by that question. >> joe, are we missing something? is there a clever political age to show he is nothing like barack obama? there has got to be some counter lodger to this we're missing? >> he is trying to show he is not barack obama mission accomplished. it almost seems that you have to try to alienate a country when you have organized once himself. he was probably trying to show has pat he is not just going to go with the flow he is going to drill down and poi

it was everything you might expect from a land that gave us shakespeare, the sex pistols and monty pythonwhen they picked a creative director, they could gone with andrew lloyd weber's theatrical bombast. instead, they chose danny boyle. judging from all the ecstatic morning papers, they're thrilled they did. from above, the booming fireworks made it feel like most opening ceremonies. on the ground, it was all so distinctly british. lush island villages met the industrial revolution. mary poppens met with sergeant pepper. the queen met bond. james bond. >> good evening, mr. bond. >> reporter: and then they promptly jumped out of a helicopter together. or at least their stunt doubles did. there were little british cars, david beckham on a speedboat, and mr. bean. on piano. kenneth branagh read shakespeare. j.k. rowling read "peter pan." >> it's not large and sprawling. >> reporter: and then the star attractions entered, from 204 nation. the americans, led by mariel zagunis, a champion fencer as the flag bearer. even the biggest stars, like lebron james, couldn't help but snap mementos thro

monty python could not have scripted a better move.ewis said, some americans should just not leave the country. i wait as he moves east to israel and poland. if mitt can do hammer to the oldest and securist international relationship we have what will he do to the middle east. mitt's critique of the obama foreign policy has been devoid of an thread of what he would do and do differently. he's surrounded by the folks who brought us fake wmd and the iraq war and his language has the tone to match. but on specifics one is mitt's stand on afghanistan. he said he would listen to that means nothing except an abdication of responsibility. the president sets the strategic goals and objectives. he can't just punt by saying i will live to the commanders. but this is typical of his answers. but so far mitt romney's international adventure has been amusing and revealing. once again the vapid mitt has shown his lack of substance and style. mitt, come home. you've already done enough every day, an average of 5,000 people switch from cascade to finis

crowning glory on it -- >> he is not as smart as monty python. >> oh, yeah.like wow, this almost killed me. i must be in bad shape. >> yeah, jim and i were talking about you burn about 50,000 calories a day -- but you only eat about 32. she just eats like the cookie monster it just falls out of though side. >> i told you yesterday, there is no recovery in this class, recover is staying alive. >> that's really dangerous. you can kill people doing that. >> she's like i'm training us like athletes. and i'm like some of us are not going to the olympics we're just middle-aged drunks. >> if your heart rate is about 250 you need to stop -- >> the last place i want to be is in a room with someone like that coach. >> i love it. >> go! go! go! you are not good enough! >> i told you, i have turned into richard gere from officer and a gentlemen. i'm not quitting! i have nowhere else to go! >> instructor should my heart rate be that of a rabbit having a panic attack on a roller coaster. >> i love it. [ applause ] >> no recovery. recovery is staying live. >> you never go i

it's sort of that mix of high brow and low brow, i guess, that we all love monty python.t line. >> it is high brow, low brow. it is being funny at the same time being smart. >> we hope. >> define for me the success of family guy. it's probably gone way, way beyond whatever you ever imagined. >> yeah. you know, i don't think it goes any deeper than this. i would never be so presumptuous to compare our shows. the honeymooners. one of my favorite -- why does this show endure, why do people continue coming back to jackie gleason. rather than an extended analytical answer, he just said they're funny. >> in the end, it's a simple answer that's right. >> we've never been under the illusion that it's our job do anything more than just make people laugh and give them a good time for the 22 minutes that we're on. >> you were 24 when you created family guy or not? >> yes. >> this went on for how many years now? >> you know, it's strange. i actually don't know how many years -- i've never been able to answer this question. the thing about an animated show, it takes nine months to do

. >> gretchen: monty python knows there is a lot of ways to cook it.ow us the best ways to spam up any meals. good see you. >> thank you so much. celebration of our 75th anniversary, we'll share a lot of great recipe here's today. i want you to know they can be found on spam.com. >> steve: who would think of doughnuts? >> these are the grand prize winner from our recipe contest. we start with a brown sugar batter that we just pipe this into our mini doughnut pan, so it's really simple. you get the brown sugar buttermilk batter. >> steve: you don't have to fry it? >> no. these are baked. after we get the batter in, we top it with a circle cutout of spam. you put these cutouts on the top and pop them in the oven at 325 for ten minutes. then when they come out of the oven, the spam is now the base of the mini doughnuts. >> gretchen: cut it up and put it on the top? >> a doughnut is not complete without spam. that is sauteed spam finely chopped. we've taken spam and rolled it up in french toast. you can dip it in the maple syrup or honey. kids really love

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