legend is celebrating 60 plus years in show business with a new memoir, already a "the new york times" bestseller. we will get to the wonderful stories in the text, but first, a small sampling of his economic work. >> 0h, rob. >> i would be thinking exactly what you are thinking. >> darling. oh, rob, the you think you could ever forgive me? >> sure, i forgive you. what did you do? chin ♪of that noble sin bad ♪ me i was supercalifragilistic... ♪ ♪ bang bang chitty chitty bang bang ♪ [laughter] did we get you good? >> yes, you got me. >> that is just a small sample of when you see that kind of real, and you try to just suppose that with your title, "my lucky life in and out of show business," what does look have to do with it? that is a lot of talent. -- was does luck have to do with it? >> it comes from being in the right place and the right time. i got a job and then learn how to dance. it was that kind of career. i wanted to call the book, "everybody else has got of bo -- a book." tavis: you really do believe so much of your success was being at the right place at the right time? >> i started ou

it came out in 2000 and spent seven weeks on "the new york times"' bestsellers' list. so for those of you who have bought my books, i thank you, because now i don't have to practice law full-time anymore. >> but all kidding aside, you know, i think crime novelists and readers of crime novels whether it's lawyer books or whether it's private detectives or cops, you know, in my world i'm like -- unlike tony's, i can control the outcome. i can get justice in my books because i can fix the ending. and i start -- and most authors do i start with the ending. i know who did it, how and why. and by god, when i write that book, i'm going to make sure justice is served. i think that's why people keep coming back to lawyer books in particular because there's a lot of drama in the courtroom. there's always a murder. there's always big stakes. i've written books about death penalty cases. the stakes don't get any bigger than that. and i think it was important to me to have the center of my books a defense attorney who is the kind of guy, the tony serra's of the world, the person you

so whether you're looking for a certain author, or a new york times bestseller, a good book is just a yup. if you don't have an iphone, well, you don't have an iphone. >> jimmy: hi, everybody. i wasn't paying attention. on the program tonight, fresh from elimination on "dancing with the stars," romeo and his partner chelsie hightower are with us. you can applaud [ applause ] you know, romeo's father, master p, was on "dancing with the stars." somehow he managed to make it to week four without ever actually dancing. he just kind of stomped around, like frankenstein. but his son danced. and then, a hugely popular, grammy award-winning band from puerto rico, this is their latest album -- "entren los que quieran," which good? did it sound good? thank you. means "those who want to come," calle 13 from the bud light outdoor stage. [ applause ] finally, four years of high school spanish are paying off. you can see calle 13 live on thursday at club nokia here in los angeles. tomorrow night we'll be joined by chris o'donnell, ginnifer goodwin, and music from zac brown band. and thursday, kate

unknown," which led to his selection to barnes & noble's discovery of great new writers, and a new york times bestseller. his latest book, "the clockwork universe," immerses us in be 17th century london, a dirty and what dangerous place with a few bright men who opened their minds to new ways of thinking about the world. they believed that a world well designed by god would follow simple, elegant rules, and they set out to find them. the work was done by robert hook, ed hand haley, robert boyle and most of all, isaac newton. at the same time, they had competitors. newton was one of the most well known and the hardest to get along with. his feud with look in its -- they both discovered calculus -- lasts decades. newton hated sharing his discoveries, and when he did publish them, he did nothing to make his writing easy to read or to understand. lucky for us, edward dolnick does just the opposite, showing the reader the culture and thought of the period thereby making clear the workings and impact of the new discoveries. at the beginning of this book, the residents of london are afraid the end of the world

and star of "30 rock" and the author of "bossypants," which debuted at the top of "the new york times" bestsellerse ] if that's not enough, she's hosting "saturday night live" this week. please welcome back to the show, our good pal, tina fey! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you, my pal? >> i'm good. how are you? >> jimmy: doing good. good to see you. thank you for being jersey-fied. >> oh, i loved it. that was super fun. >> jimmy: oh, you're awesome. i love -- you took a picture. you tweeted this out to your -- you emailed it to your husband. >> i don't tweet. [ laughter ] but i did. i sent that to my husband. he's like, "i like it." [ laughter ] he liked it. >> jimmy: he liked that look? >> he liked that look. amy kept saying that she looked like dog the bounty hunter's wife. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: she did a little bit. >> a little bit. >> jimmy: she looked like a wwe wrestler. the thing that made me laugh is that you put your hair in my mouth. and -- some of the grossest. i've never -- >> i know. it's a girl trying to be sexy. she knows something about hair -- hair is sexy. put it

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it's on "the new york times" bestseller list where it's been for 14, 15, 19 weeks, a long time. and i'm really delighted that we have robert here to tell us even more. robert hirst. [applause] >> i have to turn myself on here, no pun. thank you, susan, for that introduction. it always reminds me of the way mark twain said he was introduced out here in california 140 years ago. he was on one of his first lecture tours in california. never published a book. of course, nobody knew him. he was up in red dog, and no one even knew how to introduce him. but finally, the crowd persuaded a slouching and awkward big miner to get up on the stage and do the honors. he stood thinking a moment, mark twain says, and he said, i don't know anything about this fellow. [laughter] rather, i only know two things. one is, he hasn't been in the penitentiary. [laughter] and the other is, i don't know why. [laughter] mark twain said he liked that because it was a compliment that didn't raise expectations too high. [laughter] payne, mark twain's official biographer, put that into the autobiography that h

so whether you're looking for a certain author or a new york times bestseller a good book is just a tap well, you don't have an iphone. i was driving in northern california. my son was asleep. i really didn't see it coming. i didn't realize i was drifting into the other lane. [ kim ] i was literally falling asleep at the wheel. it got my attention, telling me that i wasn't paying attention. i had no idea the guy in front of me had stopped short. but my car did. -my car did. -thankfully, my mercedes did. [ male announcer ] a world you can't predict... demands a car you can trust. the e-class. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. ammstein are on the way. congratulations, by the way. the book on "the new york times" best seller list which is quite an accomplishment. it a novel. >> that's right. >> jimmy: that's a lot harder? >> for fiction it's very hard. those are the airport books, you know? all the books -- i was going to -- it's a little easier if you write a memoir but when you have to compete with "the girl with the

doug is the author of two "new york times" bestsellers "in harm's way" and the sinking of the uss indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors and more recently "horse soldiers," the extraordinary story of a band of u.s. soldiers who rode to victory in afghanistan. his writing has appeared in esquire, then our times, the "washington post," time and other national publications. he is the founder of the national writers series, a book festival bringing great conversations to life in with the erica's greatest writers consider by editors and readers to be one of the country's countries top tier book events that takes place in michigan. stanton's recent book horse soldier spent more than three years on the hour times bustle reston named the 2009 notable book by "the new york times". stanton lives and writes in michigan. welcome, doug. [applause] our topic today is the uncertain future in afghanistan assessing the conflict 10 years later. it is worth pointing out now that the u.s. has been present with its military in afghanistan longer than the soviet union did in 1989. and i think it

incumbent on me to tell you that she's got another book that has either been on or on "the new york times" bestsellerputting the finishing touches on her new offering, a title she can only get away with when writing a book about liberals. i kid you not, the title is "demonic." it's absolutely guaranteed to be bestseller number eight and, ladies and gentlemen, i'm starting to find this quite obscene. she's a legal correspondent for human events and a popular syndicated columnist for the national press syndicate. she's one of the most sought after personalities on the college speaker circuit. whether it's on college campuses or national television, pity the liberal fool who thinks he can take her on. ladies and gentlemen, thank god she's my friend, is all i can say, ann coulter. [applause] >> i have a bittersweet award tonight. s the ode to keith olbermann and like many of you since he was fired by msnbc, there's been a hole in my life. i keep trying to watch rachel but you sit back and say, keith would have been so much crazier. you're probably wondering why i'm giving this award tonight. there are a

one point last year your three first books occupied positions one, two, and three on the new york times bestseller it pabl possible to rig t list? >> i think so. but it's surprising someone of my stature can have that happen to them. >> it's very flattering. >> it is. next up is the kardashians, i would assume. >> you are notorious for practical jokes. we talked about it before. i think the premise of the book is ingenious. you basically got all of the victims to write the book for you. so you hue millmiliate them and write the story. >> it was a nice way for me to put out another book. >> they get money from the book? >> they all got paid, big time. you're a practical joker, too. >> what do you get out of it? i love that moment when the person realizes you pulled the wool over their eyes. >> i like the lead-up of everyone getting in on the lie with you so people with you have to lie, too. they don't want anything to do with the lie, but they are forced to lie, too. it becomes a huge lie and everything is in on it with one person. >> this goes back to a long time. don't people walk around constant

in fact, it was the nation's number one bestseller because "new york times" wasn't around then, but became the nation's number one bestseller in solitary teachers does uncle tom's cabin was in the 1850s. never underestimate the ability of the american people to believe almost anything. well, what happened to sister mary john is that protestant working men and charlestown, massachusetts became so exercised over her disappearance that they burnt down the convent. this is the ursuline convent in flames. but they were less concerned about sister mary john and the fact that the convent was built on a hill right next to bunker who. we all know bunker hill is a pretty sacred site of the american revolution and here you have this catholic convent. not only that, but this convent had 60 pupils, all-girls because girls could not get an academic education in boston. the only place they could get an academic education to learn about history, science, math, literature was in the catholic schools. so you have 60 students, 60 students in this convent. 50 of them were protestant girls. protestant girls go

three bestsellers all at one time on "the new york times" list. >> one, two and three.told me." i wanted to help them make money off me since i've been making off everyone else. they got paid. once and that's it. i'll be getting the residuals. >> hopefully you signed something with them. you know how people are. they get a little taste of the good life and they expect it every day. >> that's why i'm going to sign a prenup when i marry paul mccartney. >> what do you think? >> i think he likes to give his money away so it's fine. she seems nicer than the last one. >> did you prescreen these stories. or did you say submit them, put it in the book? >> no. it's under my imprint. don't be intimidated, ladies. it is the entire book. i make myself look bad on my own so i'm not opposed to other people doing it for me. i added something at the end of everybody's chapter way think about the person and their character. i added a lot of photos because those are fun books. it's a really funny, funny book. it's my favorite book so far, definitely. >> you didn't have to do the work. >>