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 it. he opens it. he reads the first joke. egos, 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, hes sa,alleis 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 here all week, folks. we're going to take questions from the audience. w

bear in mind that microsoft, in some sense, is like the energizer bunny, and i'm going to use two monty pythoneferences. on one hand, they're sort of like the killer rabbit from the holy grail, they're small, but they keep getting you, but they're also not dead yet. they keep coming and coming and coming again and i think investors may underestimate that. >> you know, you're obviously quite the bear on microsoft, roy. but if you had to pick something that is going to be able to keep this come back going, what is it? >> you know, i do agree here with the fact that the cloud computing and the enterprise platforms are doing significantly well. i think that part of them doing well is they've hedged their bets here. i think the fact that people have used tablet devices more and more, they're reliant on this infrastructure. and i kind of feel like microsoft lucked into this vision. you look at where the industry's headed in terms of gaming, in terms of mobile, and microsoft is making sure that windows 8 is a long-term investment. you see them look for xbox to be a core part of windows 8 in branching

[ applause ] >> it is like in monty python, they ran out of weapons started catapulting sheeps and cowsphanie: when has fox news had a roundtable on criticizing republicans? never. glenn beck at the nra convention. glen too crazy for fox beck. >> guns save lives. guns protect our mothers our wives, our daughters our children. >> except that one time. >> stephanie: when you're 43 times more likely to kill one of them because you have a gun in the house than an intruder. >> kid did a good job of protecting his sister. >> anyone ever done a tally of lives saved? >> no. >> it is impossible to keep a statistic like that. >> i guess it is. >> every burglary foiled. >> look at all of the things that didn't happen. >> stephanie: statistics pulled freshly from the wrath. gail trotter who i was on with. what did she say? two and a half million people lives are saved every year because of guns. what? [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> pulled from her rectum is where that's coming from. >> that sizable rectum of hers. >> stephanie: senator dick durbin on the nra association. >> the national rifle associati