and he's a legendary professor at the school of visual arts in new york for 40 years. but his-- his art style was very close to my riffing free associating. and-- i always wanted to collaborate with him but didn't know how. >> and then-- about-- two years ago i came up with an idea actually, "look, i have some thoughts. they're not jokes. some of them may be jokes, but-- n-- i didn't care about them i ca-- "any thought, and i'll call you with five and six--" he goes "i got-- i like this one goodbye." and then he would do an image and-- as it turned out, there have been several collaborations like this. not to be grandiose, but edgar allan poe did the raven and manet illustrated it on each page-- >> but, you know, b-- but how 'bout a comedian's jokes being illustrated. is that original? has anybody ever done that? >> probably not. i think it's really authentic, and for me i been-- you know-- if i don't-- i've had-- i-- i-- when i grew up i had idols, you know when-- in the arts. the arts saved my life when i was a kid. the family was really dysfunctional. and-- and so i

larry david got him a studio i wound up buying 30 or 40 of his paintings, he's a professor of school of visual arts, a legendary guy of 40 years. but i've always tried to find a way where we could collaborate. he so understood, he paints the way my mind, good or bad works. so i said i have an idea. i'll call you up with five thoughts. if anything tickles your fancy -- which is a phrase i never used on television dinah shore once used it -- >> rose: but not you. tick also your fancy she would have said? >> coltrane would have used it. so i called him up and we got the book together by a wonderful editor and christopher murray and now it's out in powerhouse books, it just came out. it's like a gift book, 50 images. larry david wrote the forward where he demolished me. >> rose: said, this book is a marriage of artist and comedian. i'm usually skeptical about marriage of any kind but this one works. and it did >> thank you. i think it did work. he has two beautiful daughters, amicable with his ex-wife and a happy man right now. >> rose: why did it work for you and him? >> because you know we had this c

of corner betsy carmichael schools along with some capital improvements to one of our arts organizations and also happy to see that we are funding subsidies shall subsidies for rents to keep our seniors in visual disabilities, homeless adults and families housed in their home. also i'm glad to see you funding come in particular to our transgender community around organizing but also legal services, and leadership support for those that are formerly incarcerated and frankly, disproportionately impacted by our criminal justice system. finally, i like to say them back to see the board fund initiatives both in the district attorneys office and public defenders office for real criminal justice reform. in particular, i'm really excited about the pre-child's attention unit as a public defender's office, which will now house to public defenders and two paralegals to actually go in for bail hearings, so that defenders have witnesses and evidence are presented before judges get these hearings are often a couple minutes were just as we make very quick determinations about whether an individual is really a risk to public safety, and we've seen that this discourse only impacts for example the african-ameri