. >> dave, most of your career, you wrote the peter pan books with ridley. how do you like working with others? >> i love it. i enjoy it but you can bounce it off. when riding alone, what goes through -- when you are writing alone, you sit and think you are a fraud. anyone who writes comedy knows that feeling peter i am not funny. i do not have skills. i used of all the jokes. that is nd of how you start your day. sometimes that is how you end your day. >> sometimes that is the entire day. [laughter] >> you look at the window of people going to work in have jobs and know what they're going to do that day. you feel so envious. but then you think, but i would have to wear something besides my underwear. so i will stay here and keep trying to write jokes. >> also, you can wear somebody else's underwear. getting started in a comedy. [laughter] >> having a background in live tv teaches you a lot of things. one is that nothing is that precious. the audience is coming in at 11:30 p.m. on saturday night. if you do not have the script, people turn on nbc, there will

. >> dave, most of your career, you wrote the peter pan books with ridley. how do you like working with others? >> i love it. i enjoy it but you can bounce it off. when riding alone, what goes through -- when you are writing alone, you sit and think you are a fraud. anyone who writes comedy knows that feeling peter i am not funny. i do not have skills. i used of all the jokes. that is kind of how you start your day. sometimes that is how you end your day. >> sometimes that is the entire day. [laughter] >> you look at the window of people going to work in have

he wrote to his friend, matthew ridley, quote, not much for the interest of america that peace should be made at present. think about that. not much in our interests that peace should be made. it is in our interest that the war be prolonged. meanwhile, up at the camp in newburgh, the officers muttering and murmuring, there arrived a new general. his name was horatio gates. horatio gates was not a man much troubled by principle or loyalty. early in the war he had distinguished him as the commander of the american army at the battle of saratoga. a great victor in saratoga where he defeated general burgoyne. we sometimes forget about that year, 1777. called by the british for the year of the hangman for the three sevens being the gallows. and, general washington retreated from brandywine, germantown, and lost philadelphia. washington's reputn

particularly author filmmaker ridley's the expert told me a little earlier r.t. that he thinks all sides of the conflict need to come to the negotiating table. but key thing is where the intermediaries not aligned with either side are capable of pushing both sides to a conference table to agree a solution to this crisis it seems to me the assad regime carries on as if it doesn't realize how heated it is by some sections of the population and the opposition which is now increasingly by the west by its conduit since there inside of you arabia and turkey heart turning our studio this does not help anyone in syria if it goes on like this it's becoming more and more sectarian if minorities christians who are where else are being targeted now by the so-called liberation from forces of the country so i think what it suggests is a negotiated settlement and for people to push both sides to sit on the round of you by the way you can find more footage from syria on our web site r.t. dot com as well as some disturbing pictures from another conflict scarred country this video

actions do not represent the values of the vast majority of coalition forces who serve their nations on ridley contrary to what u.s. officials say some analysts believe that those incidents are symptomatic of how the military operation in afghanistan works it is increasingly the case this is looking like. a brutal occupation which is killing a large number of afghans were afghans film selves humiliated insulted and instance like this will be regarded as symbolic of exactly what is wrong with the american occupation it is an absolutely cynical operation to say that they can speak think in afghanistan for another three years how many more people will die how many more instances like this the only solution to this is to bring the troops out and then for these for these governments distortions of a name in countries where they have absolutely no right to intervene copious apologies handed out by the administration don't seem. even to appease war critics back home let alone the afghan people but what about the whole idea of in aiding a country in occupying a country and disturbing their country cre