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that's because he was based on rob reiner. >> it was extension of what i had been through as a singlen single for ten years, experiences i had trying to get with women and confusion of can you be friends with a woman and if you have sex, does it ruin the friendship? >> why can't we get past this? are we going to carry this thing around forever? >> it just happened. >> it happened three weeks ago. you know how year to person is like seven years to a dog? >> yes? is one of us supposed to be a dog in this scenario? >> rob reiner's collaboration with nora ephron, very much both worked together for equal female and male perspective. >> there are a lot of desperate women out there looking for love. especially over a certain age. >> you know it's easier to get killed by a terrorist than get married over the age of 40? >> that's not true. that statistic is not true. >> that's right. that statistic is not true. but it feels true. >> even a romantic comedy where you know what's going to happen, still something satisfying about it. i don't know why. still something that works. that's why they us

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our guests will include rob reiner and kathy griffin.ext, the latest on durdonald trump's accusation that his predecessor wiretapped trump tower before the election. sheinelle jones has more news at the top of the hour. hey, searching for a great used car? i don't want one that's had a big wreck just say, show me cars with no accidents reported find the cars you want, avoid the ones you don't plus you get a free carfax® report with every listing i like it start your used car search at carfax.com >>> good day. i'm sheinelle jones in new york. new reaction this hour to a series of explosive president trump tweets that accuse the obama administration of wiretapping trump tower. a story that broke just before 7:00 this morning. and we begin with new reaction to those allegations by president obamaobama -- preside trump accusing the obama separation. here just one of six tweets. he wrote, quote, terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. and here is linds

we got a rot of our friends who improvised, tony hendra-- >> stephen: was this rob reiner from the beginningminute version with our own bucks, kind of hawked that around and eventually landed a sale. it was fun. >> stephen: did people think you were going to take that and make a script out of it? >> i didn't know what they thought. i didn't ask. >> stephen: were you surprised it became such an iconic piece of comedy? >> well, it had kind of a limping start. it didn't do much in the theaters. there was one theater in boston that played it for a year, and a lot of other theaters, you know, where people liked the show and moved on. >> stephen: it came out in '84. >> '84 gli heard about it and i heard it was fantastic and was being played at my college at the time, in northwestern, and i went into this auditorium because somebody told me, "you have to see it." i went in early because i thought it was going to be cracked. >> cricket s. >> stephen: and it was. it was absolutely jammed with people but they were there to protest a guy named adolfo colearo who was a representative of the contras, whe

this father-son comedy power house carl and rob reiner lived that philosophy.ctually got to go to carl reiner's home in l.a., sit down with him and between them you have legendary shows like dick van dyke, harry met sally, i could go on. i learned that laughter and politics really just in their dna. did you grow up laughing in this house? >> the funny est people in the world came into this house. people have asked me a million times what it was like growing up in a household where there was mel brooks and there's -- norman lear, just the funny est people in the world. i said, well, you don't know as a kid, you're growing up, you don't know that's your reality. >> i was trying to think of when he was very, very young, four, five and six years old, when mel and i would be kidding around in the living room he would sit on the steps and listen and laugh. we didn't understand how this kid knew what he was thinking about. matter of fact, when he was 12 years old or 13 or 15 he threw in a joke we still use. >> i was staying up late last night rewatching scenes from wh

with his friend drummer rob reiner and the band anvil he's done it almost. well, really not quiet.tless shows over decades on the road the hard core metal fans adore anvil. why are they still working so hard? >> nice guys but financially a disaster. >> reporter: they used to have a live music one guy that booked it runs the man cave in bordentown he said he booked anvil here they just didn't do that well. >> anvil was one of hundreds of metal bands i had there. i do remember though that it was not well attend. keeping in their stride. maybe about 150 people. >> reporter: randy acknowledges though anvil has been a great band. he's got their vinyl for sale at his shop. anvil's close brushes with stardom many low lights, too. are spell out in 2008 documentary anvil the story of anvil. >> after the documentary i quit my bleep day job. >> which was. >> delivering bleep food. >> reporter: judge anvil by their show turn out outer money they make which wouldn't have been much all that misses the point of exactly who they are. those 150 people left with ringinrinking in their ears ands on t