. >> 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 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 wil

but my next guest matt ridley says the opposite is true. how can that be the case?if you think about it, it means we are not burning something else. not cutting down the forest. the more we burn fossil fuels, the more we can produce fertilizer meaning we use less land to grow food we can spare the land for the forest, thursday next forest increase particularly in america. there is a fascinating new discovery that the world as a whole is getting greener. the amazon rain forest is actually getting greener. partly because we're putting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere making grass grow faster. john: let's break that down. in general there is less farmland and more land returned to forest because we burn oil, coal instead of trees. >> new england now 70% forest. countries like bangladesh are growing more forest. the satellite measures the green of the earth finding 20% of the earth is getting greener, 3% getting browner, about half of that effect coming from the carbon dioxide we are putting into the air from burning fossil fuels. so it is literally helping the ama

this comes after a new cabinet begum introduced this week by ridley, this is called alert energy gum,omises " the right image, right now. " in a statement released on monday, the fda says that the proliferation of the caffeine addicts the fools is " beyond anything fda envisioned. " the agency previously launched an investigation into the safety of energy drinks. >> the sacramento kings finally appear to be staying put. the nba is relocation committee voted unanimously to reject the application for the kings to relocate to seattle. all 30 nba owners will meet the week of may 13th to vote on the matter. seattle mayor mike mcginn pledged that his city will continue to fight for the nba team. >> after announcing that he is gay, nba veteran and stanford alum and jason collins has received an overflow of support from colleagues and former athletes. collins has played with six nba teams over his career, but his " coming out " is a move that gets the most attention. in the upcoming issue of sports illustrated collins acknowledged that he is gay. former teammates keyon dooling of the misses g

but my next guest matt ridley says the opposite is true. how can that be the case?t, it means we are not burning something else. not cutting down the forest. the more we burn fossil fuels, the more we can produce fertilizer meaning we use less land to grow food we can spare the land for the forest, thuray next forest increase particularly in america. there is a fascinating new discovery that the world as a whole is getting greener. the amazon rain forest is actually getting greener. partly because we're putting more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere making grass grow faster. john: let's break that down. in general there is less farmland and more land returned to forest because we burn oil, coal insad of trees. >> new england now 70% forest. countries like bangladesh are growing more forest. the satellite measures the green of the earth finding 20% of the earth is getting greener, 3% getting browner, about half of that effect coming from the carbon dioxide we are putting into the air from burning fossil fuels. so it is literally helping the amazon to grow. there is a

the federal study begins as ridley puts a caffeinated gum on the market this week.rs want to know about caffeine's impact on children and adolescents. the last time the fda approved adding caffeine to food or drink was in the 1950s when it was introduced to colas. ha. talking incredible amount of caffeine. think about it. one stick of the wrigley gum, equivalent to a cup of coffee. >> imagine. pop five, bouncing off the walls. >> half a cup of coffee. i apologize. >> wouldn't mind. don't have a chance to get coffee. pop a stick of gum. need a pop. >> problem is the kids getting their hand on something like this. always the problem. an energy drink or gum, or anything that you are adding caffeine to. that's the biggest problem. when you put it in front of a child and they start using it. then tip is when you worry. >> yes. read, i think i will lose my voice. >> it was the latin night on abc's "dancing with the stars." that means there was plenty of spicy movement on the dance floor. kelly pickler and derek hough came out on top thanks to what one judge called a crisp