i mean, it's amazing. >> i'm just curious, john, what do you get recognized for, monty python or -- > python. >> gene, step in. >> your funny lines have often been about politics. my favorite is during the 2008 i think it was, during the 2008 campaign, when you said michael is no longer the funniest palin. that was great. so any comment on the pageant of democracy you saw yesterday? >> when i first came here, when johnson beat goldwater, the thing that impressed me then, really impressed me, was the friendship across the aisles. how people from the parties liked each other and got on okay and it was so different to england where there was still some arguing about the general strike of 1929, you know. and i thought this is great, this is the way to run a democracy. but things change. >> things have definitely changed. now, when you walked in here, you're very tall. >> you noticed. >> how tall are you? >> partly a trick of the light. i'm actually 5'8". >> no, you're not. >> no, i'm 64 1'4 1/2". >> so you were 6 feet at ten years old? >> gawky. >> that must have been something, to tower

if you imagine the dagon ticked -- a gigantic monotype pot on -- monty python and with the consumers of tobacco things would have been very different and much worse. he refused to except the argument and they were the powerful voices they would not be decisive it is churchill and church alone. he was wary destinies night her coat. and with that fateful meeting of the british cabinet he makes an incredible speech from each of us on the ground. they will cheer. all of the desire to a deal. but if churchill had not been there the pressure from the media but i really think he would've made an accommodation that would have been calamitous. so that is why. but it wasn't the enough. but he knew from the very beginning in almost as important with churchill in america with two years and four months by the way. and nowadays through that transatlantic you think of sitting on the bench with fdr with the pride in his american ancestry the only citizenship he could claim at the end of his life but we have to except the if you have the copy of this book this book is nothing when the relationship wi

a study has revealed that monty python's always look at the bright side of the life is the most playedg at funerals in the uk. as you know the british have always been leaders in the field of humor, funerals should be no exception. the study canvassed 30,000 funerals. the second place song was "the lord is my shepherd." the bad news for britain, a study out also this week showing the difference between rich and poor in the uk is eight teeth. they set to show the link between socio-economic status and dental care and britain's poor have eight fewer teeth on average by the age of 70 than their wealthy counterparts. >>> stunning images making the rounds on the web this week come courtesy of a storm chaser from nebraska. and someone ought to use this as an album cover. they're called mammatus clouds. each cotton ball can be a mile in diameter. while they're most beautiful photographed at sunset and while rare, the westerners know they can also be a harbinger of very bad weather to come. >>> we're getting a look tonight at some happy images, unlike those we've ever seen out of afghanistan.

and there in monty python and the holy grail the ogre at the chasm of death asks the poor traveler, what is your name? what is your quest? what is the capital of asyria. and of course you can answer the first two but you can't answer the third, you wind up in the chasm of death. similarly the agency has its ways of dealing with foia requests that it doesn't really want to honor. with that bit of cinematic metaphor we now are proud to have with you alan butler. alan is one of the leading thinkers in this field with the electronic privacy information center. as i mentioned at the very start of my introduction, the bbc radio program this morning spoke of big data for spooky uses in the era of ed snowden. we are about to go into the subject of big data, who in the private sector is gathering your big data. who in the public sector is listening to you and informing big data about you. and all those issues that the electronic privacy information center has on its agenda. alan butler. >> thank you. so that's a lot to cover in a brief amount of time. but i will -- i'm going to focus today my tal

i was surprised that not even the top 50 was monty python and the holy grail "i am not dead yet. i would definitely put that in the top 50 and see how people vote. >> does the movie have to be a classic movie for the line to rank as an all time great? >>ç no it has to be important to you. to you, andy. my best line that means the most to me, rocky three, show of hands and when mr. t was asked for a prediction in the rematch which he eventually lose. prediction? i have a prediction, pain. that moved me. he went on to lose. >> you based your career. i feel pain. >> have you or any other lawyers you know throw out a you can't believe handle the church. the whole trial is out of order 679. have you ever done that? >> i have never done that. i have tried them do something like that. >> it doesn't come off well. we all had moments where youer where you could hear the "law and order" power of the -- powerful moment. i would say any things as far as lines, every line from "casablanca." here's looking at your kids, harris, play it again sam. all time best line from that movie. >> he neve

nichols, is he probably best known for his work on the graduate but he did broadway shows like monty python's spamalot. he had a career spanning more than 50 years and during much of that time he was married to abc news anchor, diane sawer. he was 83 years old. >>> it turns out that bono's injuries are much worse than first thought. he fell off a bike in central park in new york. he broke his arm in six places, fractured his shoulder blade and eye socket. he needs extensive therapy but is expected to make a full recovery, he apparently fell off his bike trying to avoid another rider. >> finally, cancel all plans, it's a night for shonda hits. and then the hashtag who killed sam, we are watching it all and tweeting during all of it. use the #~ 6 abc. >> get the twitter party started. >> and still to come, nature betrayed them. science failed them yet they never lost hope. their goal is to have a child. we were told it might never happen the natural way. >> we kept it private, it was embarrassing why can't we have kids and everyone else can. meet the local couple hoping to share the financial b

. >> well, if you remember the movie monty python and the holy grail and when king arthur goes and cuts -- and the whole time the knight without a leg or arm says you didn't get me. you barely touched me. it was just a flesh wound. that's what we're watching here. this is the man who had both arms and his leg cut off, and he said, oh, it's just a flesh wound. didn't even touch me. neil: you've got it all covered. governor, always good seeing you. thank you very much. cavuto tell me what you think about what you think about who is responsible for what. in the meantime, bob mcdonnell was hired to clean the va. montel on how the government is stopping him from doing just that, after this. >> how many employees do you think should be fired based on what you know? >> well, the report we've passed up to the senate committee and house committee has about 35 names. i have another report that has about 1,000. neil: bob mcdonnell learning the hard way the public sector isn't anything like a private sector. the likes of which we've seen at the va, things would be flying. but for the government, th

it tells the story of leading up to "monty python's flying circus" really a pressure, john cleese thankstively. >> he's an objective critic. he doesn't like "the meaning of life." >> the bits about my mother. >> john cleese, thank you for being with us on "new day." >> thank you very much. >> brilliant example of what comedy can do for you in a good way. when we come back we'll talk about when comedy can get you into trouble, jon stewart and laughing at the idea of voting and then apologizing. was he telling the truth? wasn't he? what happened? sat down with christiane amanpour and got more than he bargained for. do solemnly swear that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic... ♪ ♪ everyone is looking for ways while to cut expenses.s unique, and that's where pg&e's online business energy checkup tool can really help. you can use it to track your actual energy use. find rebates that make equipment upgrades more affordable. even develop a customized energy plan for your company. think of it as a way to take more control over

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he is best known for groundbreaking films like "the graduate" and monty python's "spamalot."ie banderas is here with a look back at the versatile career. >> mike nichols was among the most decorated directors in american history. he won an as core in fact for his 1968 "the graduate." he also did who is afraid of virginia woolf. and my all-time favorite. "the birdcage." he is one of select few to win a emmy, grammy, oscar, tony. nichols won nine tony awards in all. he was recently working on a adaptation of the class the play about opera legend maria call last which was to star meryl streep. married to abc news anchor diane sawyer. the president of abc said i am writing with very sad news that diane husband, income practicable mike nichols passed away suddenly last seening at 83. mike had a wit and mind and beloved by so many in hollywood and broadway. our own diane sawyer, a true and beautiful love story. mike and diane were married for 26 years. among the fellow esteemed directors he worked with, ron howard, who tweeted today. rip great mike nichols. a elite member of the pa

if you imagine the dagon ticked -- a gigantic monotype pot on -- monty python and with the consumers of tobacco things would have been very different and much worse. he refused to except the argument and they were the powerful voices they would not be decisive it is churchill and church alone. he was wary destinies night her coat. and with that fateful meeting of the british cabinet he makes an incredible speech from each of us on the ground. they will cheer. all of the desire to a deal. but if churchill had not been there the pressure from the media but i really think he would've made an accommodation that would have been calamitous. so that is why. but it wasn't the enough. but he knew from the very beginning in almost as important with churchill in america with two years and four months by the way. and nowadays through that transatlantic you think of sitting on the bench with fdr with the pride in his american ancestry the only citizenship he could claim at the end of his life but we have to except the if you have the copy of this book this book is nothing when the relationship wi

it really does, you know, it's like something out of tom wolf or felini or some bizarre -- or monty pythonaughter] you know, the locals all think that's hilarious. >> if i put you in charge, if i make you god of great britain, what do you change? does this growing sense of inequality, i don't know what the numbers look like. i assume you're experiencing a similar sort of thing that we're experiencing here. >> yes. >> growing gap between rich and poor, a sense that it's not just the 1%, but the one-tenth of 1% that are taking ever more of the games. >> yeah. >> is it creating anything that looks like class warfare to you? >> i think it creates gigantic resentment, yeah. but a lot of it is directed at london from outside listen done. -- london. >> we don't do class warfare very good here, but you do it very well. you would think if there were going to be a revolution, it would start over there. >> scroll it forward, and i think there will be tensions in that direction. i think it was a big thing in the scottish independence referendum. >> yeah. >> and there was a lot of, you know, sort of a

later efforts included the mad- cap musical, "monty python's spamalot." and an update of the classic arthur miller play, "death of a salesman," just two years ago, starring philip seymour hoffman. for television, his work included an acclaimed adaptation of tony kushner's epic "angels in america." it featured meryl streep, who'd appeared in numerous nichols works, on stage and in films, including "silkwood." >> you have created a quality, an essence, that is composed of wit, race, outrage, delight, skepticism, and true love and in doing so, you have shown us how a person can become essential. you're one of our eras essential artists, mike. >> brown: in an interview for wnyc's "green space" series, nichols spoke of actors and acting. >> it's the most mysterious thing, acting, and the people who can really do it, the thing that characterizes them every time, all of them, is that they wont and can't talk about it. they wont go near it and who can blame them? would you? would i? no. because you're afraid its going to go away. stay the hell away from it. >> br

regime like that, and then they thought it's not absurd enough, so let's just add a little bit of monty pythonkafka. >> brown: in his more familiar day job, of course, jon stewart tackles all kinds of topical issues. but the humor is very much in your face-- it's a comedy show, after all. >> the democrats got taken out back and old-yelleer'd from the he took three months off from the daily show to shoot his film, most of it in jordan, including in a real prison. was it hard for you to play it straight? >> no, because the humor of it, so much of the humor of it, is what appealed to me. maziar's ability to, you know, in some ways he's the canary in the coal mine for things that i believe, that even in the darkest time humor is one of those elements that you can retain your sense of humanity with, that can give you some comfort, and act as some defense. there's sometimes a misperception, i think, of satire, that it is clownish in the sense-- no disrespect to clowns-- but that it's 'baggy pants'. it's not. it's a way of expressing ideas and synthesize information that you truly believe in, just us

. ♪ but it was monty python who did more for spam than perhaps any commercial ever could. >> could ige without the spam? >> i don't like spam. >> spam's marketing director says spam may be best selling point. >> people have spam that actually created a rocket out of spam cans. make musical instruments out of spam. a lot of fun that is had out there. >> everything is funny, horm he canl wasn't when spam entered the dictionary as word to define unwand. but the ceo says having a sense of humor about really only way to go. >> maybe our low moment with it was when we decided to sue the muppets. a movie that they put out. this had spam character that was an evil character, i think that was a turning point to say, i guess we really need to be with the joke. >> indestructible meat with its image, helped america through resection and has endured as a true slice of americana. >> ♪ in the blue and yellow can ♪ spam. >> osgood: ahead. >> basically every single thing in here is frozen. >> absolutely. >> the cold facts. ♪ >> an usual little market in new york city you just might get cold feet. >>

it really does, you know, it's like something out of a tom wolfe or illini or some bizarre, or monty python. [laughter] the locals all think that's hilarious. >> if i put you in charge, if i make you god of great britain, what do you change? does this growing sense of inequality can i don't know what the numbers look like, i assume you're experiencing a similar sort of thing that we are experiencing here. growing gap between rich and poor, since that's not just the 1%, but the one-tenth of 1% that are taking over more of the games. is it creating anything that looks like it class warfare to you? >> i think it creates gigantic resentment, yet. a lot of it is directed at london from outside london spent we don't do class warfare very well but you do very well. you would think if they were going to be a revolution it would start over there. >> scroll it forward a bit and i think you'll be tensions in that direction. i can was a big thing in the scottish independence referenda. there was a lot of, you know, sort of a joke version which the scots hate the english which is lots of jokes, slightly

and whistle that's the thing ♪ and always look on the bright side of life ♪ [ whistling ] >>> monty python a new survey found it surged to the top of the list replacing frank sinatras "my way." >>> after the catchy song of eric idol other songs on the list elvis presley, abba blues brother and musics from the "star wars" films. biographical films or biopics, movie days since the french chronicle of the life of joan of arc in 1900. several due out this holiday season including the "imtrags game" in theaters the day after thanksgiving. >> playing a british mathematician, a computer pioneer who broke the nazi's enigma code during world war ii. >> what's it calmed? >> the imitation game. >> right. that's what it's about. would you like to play? >> play? >> it's a game. a test of sorts. for determining whether something is -- machine or human being. >> here with more is matt singer, managing editor and film critic for the movie website screencrush.com. good morning. >> good morning. >> do these do better? why all of the sudden an onslaught of them? >> they've always done well at the academy awa

two for producing and directing a musical, "monty python "spamalot"" in 2005.d with mae yaw pharaoh who called him the funniest and kindness. he worked with jack nicholson and meryl streep who described him as my master and commander, you know my king. nichols was working on hbo adaptation of master class. the play about the opera legend maria call last who was to star streep. leaves behind his wife married 26 years, diane sawyer. his children, days sir, max and jenny and four grandchildren much. >> what a legacy, he will be missed. everybody loved mike nichols. thank you very much. bill: new york icon too. every time you see him he makes you laugh. wow. martha: good man. bill: our best to diane sawyer and rest of his family. martha: best to all of them. bill: prime time tonight on fox news channel, president obama takes executive action on immigration. what will republicans do in response? martha: that is at question. a drone's eye view of a deadly winter storm. this thing is far from over, folks. the latest on this crazy weather and where it's headed next aft