Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast - Bonus Bang: Jon Hamm, Paul F. Tompkins, Nick Lowe (Going Hamm)

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

This is part 2 of our "Going Hamm" series, originally episode #126 titled "Suicide is Painless". The leaves are falling, there is a chill in the air, the kids are at school so it’s time to curl up with a brand new Comedy Bang Bang. Our guests are the always charming Jon Hamm, the hugely influential Nick Lowe, and Garry Marshall. Jon teases the next season of Mad Men, Nick plays some incredible tracks off his new album The Old Magic, and Garry Marshall does the whole Garry Marshall thing. You get an Autumn Rap, a laugh-filled Would You Rather, and an excellent round of plugs that will no doubt lead you to some sexy discoveries. So throw on a cardigan, grab a pumpkin spice latte, and relax to a perfect fall podcast. Perfect for pumpkin carving and apple cider drinking! Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link https://siriusxm.com/cbb and code CBB.

Hey everyone, Scott Aukerman here. Welcome to another Bonus Bang, where we re-release beloved episodes of Comedy Bang Bang from behind the paywall. This is episode 2 of our Going Ham series, which features great episodes with beloved A-Block guest John Hamm. And this episode is number 126, Suicide is Painless. It was released on October 11th, 2011. And it features Jon Hamm himself, Paul F. Tompkins as Gary Marshall, and very special treat musician Nick Lowe, the great Nick Lowe.

It's got everything, an autumn rap, a round of Would You Rather, and music played in studio by Nick. And of course, if you like what you hear and you want to hear the entire CBB Archive, you can become a subscriber at CBBWorld.com, where you can find every single episode we've ever recorded as well as every live episode. We're going to be back Monday with a new episode of Comedy Bang Bang until then, enjoy this bonus bang! Comedy bang bang, comedy bang bang, comedy bang bang, comedy bang bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, to our message boards and put it in the appropriate thread. Merciful Percival, now I am in a pickle. Not bad, not bad at all.

Not great, not bad. Before we get going here, I do want to mention that our September Rocktoberfest, our music fest here is coming to an end this week. We've had some great musical guests on the show for the past five weeks. Yola Tango, Matthew Sweet, The Bangles, and Dan Mangan, of course. And this one may top them all. One of my favorite musicians of all time, I love all of his work.

You know him as the writer of such iconic songs as Cruel to Be Kind and What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding. His new album, The Old Magic is in stores now. Nick Lowe is here in the studio. Come on over here. Say hello, Nick. Hello there. Welcome. Hello, here I am. Thank you so much for being here, Nick.

It's a pleasure. And you'll be playing some songs for us during the show and also speaking about the new album and the new tour. Yeah. Right? A little bit later. So thank you so much for being here. Welcome to the show. I am of course, Hot Saucerman, aka The Hawk. And we have a very special guest sitting here in front of me, an old friend of mine is wearing a really nice watch.

Shirts not bad. Can't see his pants. Look like jeans. He's standing up, giving me the full view. What do we call those? 501s? Yeah sure 501s. Is it 501 already? It is 501 drinking time. He's wearing his Madmen haircut because he's currently shooting and let me tell you who he is. His name is Jon Hamm. Hello! To all the ships at sea! They're out there. In radio land. Flash! Welcome, my friend. It's great to have you back.

Thanks. You haven't been here with a new theme song in your remarket. I have not. And with that kind of theme song, I can only promise to be a fantastic show, a classic. A classic. A classic comedy bang bang. Right? Let's try to make a classic today.

Let's really put our best foot forward here. I generally try to do that with everything I do. I try to make it an today. Let's really put our best foot forward here. I generally try to do that with everything I do. I try to make it an instant classic. That is true. One of the great oxymorons of all time. You haven't been on in a while. You were here earlier in the year, but you haven't been on a while.

So I believe- Not on the new digs either. Yeah, yeah, we're in the new studio. No more plane breaks, unfortunately. But yeah, I'm trying to think of, I mean, obviously you and I have caught up since then, but I'm trying to think what the listener may be wondering about you.

What's gone on? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, what's been going on, as Marvin Gaye once questioned. Did he phrase it that way? What's been going on? I think you're right. Now that you sing it, I think I hear it. What has, I'm sorry, I forgot it has.

What has been going on? Marvin Gaye was nothing if not a grammatical perfectionist. He would use the Plue Perfect like no one's business. I have no idea if that's correct. I don't know. Even, I don't think I've ever even heard that. So. The Plue Perfect?

The Plue Perfect, yes. Of course, we all know I did not go to college. Yet. Yet? No, I actually am thinking of going back. See? Have you ever, you graduated all know I did not go to college. Yet. Yet? No, I actually am thinking of going back. See? Have you ever, you graduated? I did.

Where did you go? The University of Missouri. Missouri, actually. That's the first thing that I teach you. Not a UH. No, there's an I, not a UH. I'm pretty sure I know that much. And you graduated four years?

Four years, I did. I went to three colleges in four years, but I graduated on time and under budget, I might add. Hello! Ten million under. I went to, I think I went to four colleges. I actually did go to college technically, but acting school and then two years of junior college.

So I think I went to four or five in my brief career. Four or five beats me. I never graduated though. For what? There's so much I don't know. You know who else didn't graduate? Bill Gates. I thought you were going to say Cosby. Cosby. He's a doctor. He is a doctor. Fake doctor. That's right. He is a fake doctor, isn't he? Fake doctor. Not fair. There should be a different word or a different spelling if you get it fake. I think that dude played a real doctor on the Cosby show to try to trick us into thinking he was an actual doctor.

To try to trick Temple into giving him a fake scholarship. Yeah. A fake degree, fake doctorate, right? That's you see, it's just one in a series of reasons to hate Bill Cosby. I mean, I could go on. Yeah, let's go on. Let's, uh, yeah, why not? Here we go.

First of all, given chocolate cake to his kids for breakfast. Horrible. Not nutritional. Horrible parenting. I say we get social services in there. Something. How about titling your album, himself? Yeah.

Selfish much? Oh, geez. That's the end of the list, though. Probably is the end of the list. It's not a very good list. Also, you know what else? He likes track and field. Ah, yeah.

Sorry. That's just not American. Yo, what kind of sports do you like? You like football. I like football. I like baseball. Uh, who, uh, uh, me, me, me, me. My, my, my, my. Who, who you like in the series?

Uh, bear in mind this is October 3rd. Is it really? Yes. Well, then I think I gotta go with McCardinals. The McCardinals. McCardinals. Bear in mind, this is October 3rd. Is it really? Yes. Well then I think I gotta go with McCardinals. The McCardinals. McCardinals. MC, C-A-R-D-I-N-L-S.

So you think they're going all the way. All the way. Okay. Albert Poo holes. Is that like a PLEW, whatever it was? Albert PLEW perfect holes. Uh, where were we? Yes. So what has been going on?

What has been going on? You, you, uh, you were in, in, in, in, in, in immersed, if that's a word. Sure. Uh, in, uh, waiting for Mad Men to come back. Now you're back. You got the haircut. Back.

Uh, I directed an episode of Mad Men this year. Not only an episode, but the episode which starts... The episode that everyone's talking about. Which starts the fifth... is it the fifth season or fourth? Well it's the... I'll put it this way, this might be a little scoop. Okay. It's the first episode we shot. I'm sorry, I just... That was you took all the air out of the room there. Literally made me pass out for a hot second. It was the first one we shot.

I will leave it there, but it was fun. It was enlightening. We actually shot it in lightning. It was amazing. It looks really aggressive. Yeah, I mean you can't buy those kinds of special effects. No, no, no, no, we got really lucky. We caught it in a bottle.

Wait for it. Okay, wait for it. Okay. It's done. I got it. Uh, yeah. So, uh, how many are you doing this year? You're doing about 2013, just 13 this year. This will be, what is the, what is the pen

ultimate to the pen ultimate? Uh, the second to last season? No, it's the third to last season. Okay. So you got three more seasons left. We have three, three more, two more plus this one, so it's the blue penultimate. And it's, we're about, oh man, by this point, this deep in October, we're almost halfway through. This deep, three days deep. Three days deep in October. No wait, what day is this?

This is October 10th. Oh sorry, did I say October 3rd? This is October 10th. Yeah, this deep, 10 deep. Crisp outside, isn't it? All right, so Mad Men, you have three more seasons to go, which seems to me be like 39 episodes. That's about 39 episodes. And this last year, by the way, one of the greatest achievements in television, I think, you had a great arc on it and an amazing,

I mean, just wrestling with the alcoholism. I tell you, I did not expect, I'm sure this gets brought up a lot to you, but I did not expect in the first couple of seasons of the show for Don Draper to be dealing with his alcoholism to that degree. I kind of always expected it to be, you know how TV shows don't change that much, you know, and Don Draper's kind of a lovable guy who drinks drink that.

A lovable rogue. Yeah, you know, and all of a sudden in the fourth season, spoiler alert, he's dealing with it in a really realistic way and it was fascinating. Well, I think, you know, Matt Weiner, who creates the show, has always sort of stuck by Weiner who creates the show has always sort of stuck by the idea that people, while their characters may not change, that their circumstances certainly change as one does in life. And so you see Don and Betty's marriage completely fall apart and you see how that affects their kids and you see how the drinking escalates in order to sort of medicate yourself from that, having to deal with that or the emotions involved with that

and what toll that takes on your life, your professional career, your relationships and everything else. So it was a really fun season, hard season, but fun season to work on because it felt very different than a lot of shows maybe just sort of glossing over all that stuff. And your work in it was fantastic.

And I know you were not awarded with the personal Emmy. The show was, of course, awarded the Emmy this year. The personal Emmy is interesting, because it's much smaller. It's like a personal pan pizza. It really is. It's a little tiny. It's cut into four slices.

And you get four. And you can give three of your friends. You can share it. You know, as much as I love Coach Taylor, I love Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights. But I really felt like you guys should have been co-champions this year. I wouldn't have minded that. Kyle's actually a buddy of mine.

We did a movie together and he's an incredible nice guy and his work on that show is phenomenal. And for that show to get recognized is fantastic. Yeah. That show has been kind of criminally overlooked for too long. And Jen and I are rewatching the final season, we're actually right in the middle of it and it's so good. The show's got so much heart and has like,

it's very real and it's interesting and it's an underdog in many ways. So it was kind of amazing to see not only Kyle but also Jason be recognized, it was really nice. I mean it's nice and all and it's great and all but like, I just, you know, it's like then you got, you know, breaking bad the other years and it's nice to see. I mean he does amazing work too but come on, Hammy, you were amazing this year. Well, you know, that's nice to hear you say that.

You were. You have the Emmy in my heart if that makes any sense at all. The heart Emmy. The best kind. So what's going on with Don this year? Does he die? Does he... Oh yeah, I should probably start the whole interview by saying, yeah, well this year is the season that Don dies.

But not before some pretty crazy stuff happens. Some hijinks? Some hijinks. First of all, we teased it a little in season four, but Don this year joins the Playboy Club. Oh boy, I cannot wait. Yeah, it's really going to be cool. And I don't want to give too much away, but we might see Don in a very recognizable blue

stewardess uniform. What? I'm not saying anything. He's taking a trip through the friendly skies. I'm not saying, I don't think I'm giving anything away. No, I don't think you are at all. But yeah, there's some pretty interesting things that are happening. What do you, I mean, I know you're being, using humor to make light of a situation,

but what do you think about those shows? Did you watch Playboy, by the way? I did not see it, but I know the director of the pilot episode is a guy named Alan Taylor, who actually directed our pilot pilot as well as three other ones and I think you know look it's it's a if if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then we're tremendously flattered so it's a it's it's nice and and I don't know you know I I don't know I haven't seen either one of the shows but it is it does suggest that our show has had some sort of cultural ripple.

But you know it had a cultural ripple before this. Come on, what are these guys doing? Listen, I can spot a cultural ripple a mile off. I am a connoisseur of ripple, heretofore unseen since Fred Sanford. What are these con men doing? These grifters? I think they're writing, they're trying to write a show that maybe appeals to different demographic. To people who are interested in this time period. Yeah, and a little whiter audience, and by whiter I mean whiter.

Um, and uh. I tell you though, that guy in the Playboy Club, man, he's like doing an impression of you. I've. The one with the bunny ears and the little tail. Oh yeah, that's what I mean. That's gonna be season five. You should all tune in, please tune in.

And you, did you host us a Nell for the third time since we last saw you? I feel like you did. And do you have any- No, not since we last spoke. Oh, okay. When did you do it last? Last was October of last year.

The Halloween episode. And when are you doing it this year? Do you know? Do you have a date locked in? I don't. I don't. But I did have a little voiceover on the season premiere. Season premiere.

Sharp Ear listeners could have heard that. Absolutely. So you don't know exactly when you're doing it. But I imagine you're going to come back every year. One can only hope. I mean, it's certainly not up to me, but, but, a lot of friends over there and it's an amazing time and unlike any other sort of experience, you're very politic today, you're not, you're not, well, that's not answered that.

Come on, give me some scoop here. Um, how do you rate your SNLs just personally? Like your, no, I don't mean- I give them a strong 10 share. They're really surging in the demographic, which is great. I don't mean rate them as far as like grading your performance on them. I just mean your experience on them.

What was most fun for you? Well, I started to say it was a little, there's nothing like it really, other than maybe. This show. Other than maybe a podcast. Uh, other than maybe going up and doing a live show, cause you're essentially doing a live show. I think it is live.

It's fully live. Really? Yeah. Okay. Well, except for the digital shards. Totally not live. But live. TNL. TNL, SNL, TNL. But the first time-

It's time for TNL during SNL. The first time I hosted was a completely kind of out of body experience. It was terrifying. And then the second time you have sort of something that you- You have to live up to. An established bar that you have to either exceed or not. And then the third time was, was really fun. Cause then they kind of let, really invited me to do a lot more stuff,

whether it was the digital short or, uh, you know, come do this, you know, weird singing thing or, you know, other, just more stuff. There's more trust. Which one did you do Sergio on? Was that the third one? I believe that was the second. That was the second one. And you've seen like, there's been parodies of that

on YouTube videos. Yeah, I know. It was the one guy that does it live is hilarious. I heard that NBC is making a sitcom out of him. I did not hear that. It's gonna air right after the Playboy Club. Great. Well, listen, I'm all for cross-platforming. Is that what you call it? Well, it's one to air right after the Playboy club. Great. Well, listen, I'm all for cross platforming.

Is that what you call it? Well, that's one way to put it. I dropped something. I'm trying desperately to get it while you, so just. The thread of the conversation. What? Cover for me for a second. Go.

Anywho. He literally dropped it. I'm back. Okay. Oh, Johnny. What? Okay, good. Oh, Johnny. Okay, so artistically, what would you say is the best? What do you think, which one do you think you did the best in? I would say the second.

The second one, great. And what was in that one that was served? I believe I was in the audience for that one. You were, in fact. I think it would be a combination. I've done two Halloween episodes, which were very fun. And the third one we were going to have, but it would be a combination. I've done two Halloween episodes, which were very fun. And the third one we were going to have, but it got cut for time, we had it in the dress

and it was amazing. And the third one we were going to have, Will Forte, who by that time was off the show, come back and reprise his character of the sex offender Halloween trick or treat. And literally while I was changing in the back and putting my orange sweater on or whatever my costume was, somebody came in and said, we can't wear out of time. I was like, oh man, and Will was there and we did it and it killed and dressed and it was really fun.

Do you have a sketch you wish they would have cut in order to get that in? I don't know. But also that, maybe it's the third. I don't know. The third one had a very funny sketch with me and Kristen that was a weird audition sketch that was sort of absurd that I really liked. Right, right, right, right. Ah, that's so fun. You know, you've gotten to do something that very few people get to do.

It is a relatively exclusive club. It's one of the few things I have in common. It's like a playboy club. With Jason Priestley. And Jason Alexander. And Jason Alexander. And Jason Robards. Early, early in the early.

Jason Patrick. Jason Patrick. Jason and the Argonauts. Jason Statham. Alright, John. Well, we're going to be talking to you all show. I do want to get to our musical guest though, Nick Lowe. I'm very excited by this. I am very excited. He's a legend. I have every single song he's ever recorded.

Pure pop for now people. Yeah. The Jesus for now people. Yeah. The Jesus of cool himself. He literally is a hit machine. Literally. Yeah, he is a machine, literally. That makes hits. Yeah.

Or that hits. Which one is it? It makes hits. It makes hits. And if you get too close, you get hit. Let's go over to him. Nick, are you ready? Come on over here to the mic.

Switch places with John over here. Here I am. Welcome. So, the new album, The Old Magic. Yep. And it came out a few weeks ago. Yeah, a few weeks. I was noticing that this is your first record... It doesn't end there.

That would be a weird question if I ended it there. Now this is your first record where there is not a picture of you on the cover. No, a few people have remarked about that. I didn't think there was going to be anything to sort of remark about really. I thought it was a really good idea. There's a good-looking dame with a couple of getaway sticks on the cover. Getaway sticks. Yeah, I'll tell her you said that. Oh, who is it?

I'm sure she'll be very pleased. Well, she's a friend, actually, she's a friend of my missus', who she goes, my wife likes dancing. She goes dancing at this club in London called The Hundred Club, where they have on Monday nights they have a sort of Lindy Hop night, and rock and roll jive. Wow, people are still doing the Lindy Hop. Yes, for fun. And Natasha is one of her friends from down there, and she's got that sort of slightly

retro look, so we thought it might be fun to have her on the cover. Well the new record is fantastic. I've been listening to it ever since I got it, and you're going to do some songs for us here. What is the first one? Is this off the new record? Yeah, I will if you don't mind. I'll do this one. This is actually the first track on the record. It's a song called Stoplight Roses. Love this one. Nick Lowe. You've practiced and rehearsed it But in your heart you know it's too late Experience should tell you Never get your story too straight straight you'd better steal yourself and prepare for some blues to descend cause you've broken something this time stop light roses can't mend light roses can't mend. You've dusted off your shame face in the mirror behind the bathroom door. That little boy lost look that used to work so well doesn't anymore

If you believe your same old used to be, we'll see you through You'll last about as long as star-plight roses do In this sad array Love's promise in the cellophane lays Or dead giveaways You'll need time to devise a stylish plan And you'll do it driving over to be, we'll see you through. as stoplight roses do. That is good. Fantastic. Thank you, Mr. Lo. Very exciting. Huey Lewis clap.

There it was, Huey Lewis clap. All right. Well, uh, we have John Ham here, of course, from, uh, you know him from, uh, Madmen and, uh, Providence, Providence, of course, the help and, uh, the debt, the debt, of course, um, you do, you doing another one of those, uh, the town sequels? The town. You doing another of the town? The town two. Where else could those guys go? Well, you know where they could go.

They could search for Curly's gold. That's true. It's still out there, right? It's, they haven't, they certainly didn't find it in city slickers. I think every, every movie for a sequel, she'd go search for that for a little while, at least part of the plot. At least until it's found. I mean, it's free gold, Hollywood.

I think it's sitting out there. You'd think you'd like money. By the way, speaking of Hollywood, Jon, we have another guest on the show. I wonder if you've ever worked with him. Have you ever done a movie with our next guest? I have not, although I'm a huge fan of his work. As am I. Why don't we introduce him here?

You know him as the creator of several beloved television shows such as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Joni Loves Chachi, More than Mindy. To name but a few. Beverly Hills 90210? No, that was the other guy. Aaron Spelling. May he rest in peace.

I think he's dead. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is. And also he's directed his share of movies. And when you say his share, that means a lot. And by movies, I mean Frankie and Johnny. Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day, Pretty Woman, New Year's Eve, All of the Above and more. Please welcome Gary Marshall to the show.

Thank you, Scott. Thank you so much. You certainly know a lot about my resume. It's heartening to hear. Well, you know, your work has really impacted me. Hold on a second. Be quiet. I got a bone to pick with this guy. No offense, John, you're a terrific actor.

I think what you do is tremendous. You smoke, you yell, and then you fall down and everybody's like, this guy, he's a mess, but I still like him. Where do you get off doing multiple years of 60s television without ever bringing me in to direct a single episode? I think I have- Shut up! I'm sorry.

No one has directed more 60s television than I have well when we when we say 60s I thought Happy Days was in the 50s it's not it started in the 50s it goes into the 60s we stop before the 70s out of respect for the wardrobe department yeah it's a very good call at the same time Laverne and Shirley they they're in the 60s, they're going off into California, they're having adventures. I think they joined the cult one season, barely escaped, but it's skin in their teeth. And then, I don't know, Bork and Middie, what happened there?

Well, that was in the 80s. 80s. Yeah. Didn't he time travel at some point? Well, he time traveled back to the 60s, I guess it would be for Happy Days for the It was a backdoor pilot, but I think in the series proper There was an episode at least where we did a crossover with the Happy Days gang and everybody got reunited Speaking of crossovers though. We've talked about this on the program before John Don't you think that Fonzie should show up in Mad Men?

I think it's, I think it would be great. It's inevitable. I think it'd be great. And by the way, if I, if I just may apologize, because there's no disrespect intended to you or your talent or career. Uh, I have a feeling though, is this, does this have anything to do with me turning down New Year's Day? I wasn't, um, I wasn't crazy about that decision, I understand

you got things that you want to do, it's all right. What part were you up for, John? That's... I was up for the part, I think you made a wise recast or a wise re-offer. Paul Giamatti ended up taking it. That's right. And that's the guy who sits on the couch watching bowl games the entire movie, right?

Bowl games, yeah. It was his New Year's Day. It was his New Year's Day. There's a lot of football on. And I want to say this, I enjoyed the script and I enjoyed your previous outing Valentine's Day very much, but I was unfortunately unavailable. That's good enough for me. All I ask is that you apologize to me on a recording. That's all it I'm an easy guy

That's all it takes for me done and done But you know John there is another opportunity for you to get involved with Mr. Marshall's franchises That's right. You're not off the hook that easy because from what I hear you're directing a new movie off the hook that easy. Because from what I hear you're directing a new movie regarding another holiday. Listen, these holiday movies, they're doing very well. Valentine's Day, Smash Shit, New Year's Eve is going to be a Smash Shit because it's basically Valentine's Day but it's a different holiday. And ticket prices have raised so it'll probably make a little more money.

They have raised, they have risen, there's many ways to say it. One of them is correct. So, uh, I'm getting, I'm going gangbusters with this holiday stuff. Uh, got a new movie coming out. It's called Halloween. It takes place on Halloween. It's a bunch of people going to, uh, the costume party, all different walks of life. There's even a black couple and they're gonna have a love and adventure. They're gonna get into arguments, but at the end everybody comes together and it's nice. Let me ask you, is there any kind of a masked murderer in this movie? No murder in this one. There's only love. Some people are dressed as murderers, in this one. No. Only love. So some people are dressed as murderers. Famous cinematic murderers. Maybe there's a Norman Bates or a Mike Myers maybe? Yeah

he killed people right? Yeah in a pretty famous movie. So wait is the star of the movie wearing a Mike Myers outfit? Austin Powers guy? No, no, no, no, no. Mike Myers. Michael Myers. Michael Myers. No, no, no, no, no. Nobody's dressed as, you know, maybe they are. I don't know.

Look, I'm working on this movie right now. Wait, wait, wait. Is the lead of your movie, does he have a mask, a William Shatner mask that's been painted white by any chance? That's very specific. I don't know if there's a William Shatner mask, what color it was painted. Nobody is disguised as William Shatner. Okay, but because in the, I hate to tell you this, but in the, there's an original movie

called Halloween, John Carpenter made. Who? John Carpenter, he directed a lot of- The Thing, a lot of classic 70s movies. If you can't think of the name, then don't even bother. Oh, John, that narrows it down. John Carpenter, he directed The Thing. Hey, do you know this director? He put out Who's He What's He.

But he directed a very famous movie called Halloween where killer Michael Myers wore a William Shatner mask painted white. It was a series of films. Do you know how many movies over the course of cinema history were named lards of Arabia? Just one. I bet there was another one. My point still stands. Listen, it doesn't matter.

People are going to know this is a different, this is a love story Halloween. It's not about murderers. Can I throw a suggestion out there that might clash? Go ahead. I'm very collaborational. Could you maybe title it Love, Actually, Halloween? Love, Actually, Halloween. That one.

Yeah, who cares? That's the read. I don't care. I think that'll clarify it. Go ahead. I know for a fact there's never been a movie that has the words love and actually in it. So I think that will really.

There we go, done and done, taken care of. Now that's a script I'd be a part of. Oh, well guess what? I'm working on the movie. We're in pre-production right now, and the movie's going to be out this coming Halloween. That's right. You're going to shoot it over the next two weeks?

Yeah, that's in 21 days. That's right. Probably more like a week and a half, because we've got to do post. But we're cutting corners in a lot of ways. The quality will show through, I'm sure. Well, here's the thing. We've got a principal cast. It's going to be all stars in a lot of ways. The quality will show through, I'm sure. Well, here's the thing. We got a principal cast.

It's going to be all stars, like all of my movies now. But because everyone is wearing masks, we only shoot one day with the people without the masks on. And then it doubles. The rest is done in ADR. So it's just like people in masks where the mouths don't move. And then we get somebody in the recording booth They put a tissue paper a handkerchief over the microphone. I love you. I love you. Come let's get married

I love you. Who are some of that? We're gonna have of course Julia Roberts my old pretty woman She's not the old pretty woman by the way, she's played out, she's playing next to the characters, the same character except now she's old. Wait, is she wearing? Old prosthetic. Is she wearing a mask to be the pretty woman? She's gonna have age makeup and the mask on.

Okay, that checks out, that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, so she's actually older, the character's older than Julia Roberts is now. Okay, so she's old woman. That's a brave choice actually. It's set in the now. Okay, so she's old woman, old. That's a brave choice actually. It's set in the future. Oh, okay. Wait, why does it have to be, you mean.

It's 10 years in the future. Why does it have to be set in the future if she's wearing a mask? She could just be playing a pretty woman. Well, I don't understand the concept of this at all. Cause I respect the screenwriting. I have a feeling it has something to do with CGI. Well, what else happens that would tell you that it's set in the future? Because I respect the screenwriting. I have a feeling it has something to do with CGI.

What else happens that would tell you that it's set in the future? Are there lasers? Are there... There's just screens everywhere. Really? Just... Screens? Wow.

Everything's got a screen on it. It's the future. That's what it's like. That's what you think the dystopian future will be like, is just screens everywhere. Hey, who says it's dystopian? Everybody likes screens. You see these people, they're walking around, they're looking at their phones all day. Nobody sees a bird anymore.

Nobody looks at a cloud. When was the last time you looked at a cloud, John? Just today. Really, how was it? Beautiful clouds in the sky. It's worth it. It's worth it! Take a look! Put down your screens, America! Oh, we said the same thing. Oh, sorry, Jinx. That's all right. So who else is in this movie? You got Julia Roberts, your old pretty woman.

That's right. John Hamm, of course. Fingers crossed! What do you think John should play in this? I think you should play the guy who works at the Halloween Superstore and he's got a crush on the UPS gal who comes in and she delivers the plastic masks and the candy corn. You know who would be perfect for that role? Who's that? Emma Stone. She's in everything now. She's plucky.

I love her. She's plucky. You could legitimately buy her as a UPS delivery gal. Plus, she's used to time travel in movies because in that movie, The Help, she plays a time traveler who goes back in time and acts all modern. I happen to know she is not 75 years old. That is true. So if she was really in the 50s, she would have to be that old.

Now, I think that that's a perfect bit of casting. There we go. So Emma Stone, and she plays the sassy UPS person who delivers masks. Sure. Just a big box. And candy corn. And perfect tie-in because she does masks.

Jim Carrey's in love with her. Jim Carrey played the mask. Eric Stultz. Let's throw him in there. Bring him in. Let's get a mask. All of them in. Can't have too many masks.

You never can. I just got it. We'll get Antonio Banderas from the Mask of the Zoro. Oh, no. Hold on a mask. All of them in. Can't have too many masks. You never can. I just- We'll get Antonio Banderas from the Mask of the Zoro. Oh no, hold on a second. I gotta save a role for Hector Elizondo. Okay, no other Hispanics. Here's my good luck charm. Fair enough. Yeah, he gets- he's touchy about it. You know, he sees another Latin guy, he's like, what are we having a bullfight? What's going on? What is this, Death Watch? What is- You think I got one foot out the door? I don't know what that is. Meaning he's gonna die soon and you're making plans. I'm replacing him.

Yeah. I got a new younger model of the Latin man. I have it on very good authority that Elizondo has never been healthier. That is true, yeah, we did hear that earlier in the show. Strong as a bull. So let me ask you a very important question about this movie. Sure.

Could the masks be packed with the candy corn? Otherwise you know there's a lot of wasteful styrofoam and you know I just think it's... I'll check with the health department, you know, because I don't want to get a bunch of letters from people either at UPS or Halloween super stores saying that's unhygienic, it's unsanitary, we're not going to have people eat candy corn that goes on a mess that touch people's faces. Okay, sorry to interrupt. Okay, well with that question out of the way, anything else? It was a good question though.

Thank you. Anything else you can tell me about this movie? Any other cast members? Let's see, who else? I think we got... Who else is hot? What about A plus K? What's his name?

Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher. He's busy now. He's a big TV star. So he doesn't have time. It's a punishing schedule with a multi-camera sitcom. Multi-camera half hour. One of the worst.

Punishing schedule. One of the worst. Yeah. So I'd love to have him back. He's a great kid. You work up to two days a week on that multi-camera. It is. You earn your money.

That's for sure. It is. Also, he's building a moat around his trailer, so he's busy. Well this sounds like a fascinating film, Gary. I can't wait to see it. Good luck with the schedule. You won't have to wait very long. It's coming out this Halloween.

Do you have any other films in the, not in the can certainly, but in the pipeline? Once I'm done with this Halloween, that's it for the holidays, and then I'm gonna focus in, I'm gonna do movies about the days of the week. Oh. And it's gonna be seven films, and each film is gonna be the different character of that day, so.

Can I ask one favor on that? Sure! Please don't cast Ice Cube in Friday. I've been warned about that already, thank you, but it's been made abundantly clear to me. And I would also, one more, just never like to see Al Pacino on any given Sunday. You got it. Now, what are you going to do for me? Are you going to be the star of Wednesday? I'm your Monday man. Oh, Monday man! Oh, playing hardball. All right. Kicking it off. Wait, you think the week kicks off with Monday? A lot of people would say

in calendars in fact would say Sunday. Or the work week. He's saying this is the role for him. He feels strongly about the flavor of Monday. I had a reserve for Jason Statham, but I think I can juggle some stuff. He's a Thursday man if there's ever been one. Now that you say that, I can see it. This brings up good questions though. Is it just work days or is it the calendar? Seven days. Seven days. And then I'm going to make these seven films and then it's not like seven film series. He's a standalone movies They're each gonna have their own thing like Sunday. It's people just lazing around somebody goes to church

Somebody else, you know, they sleep in and then I would imagine the UPS delivery Person would not be available. That character will not appear in Sunday. Okay, not on the job Maybe at home. Huge arc on Friday though. That's right. Oh, she, we run her ragged. Saturday it's a lot of people doing laundry. Okay.

And falling in love. Of course, of course. And then- I would imagine there's a lot of laundromats out there in the city that people can meet at and- There's gotta be more than 10. Right, okay. What about, I would imagine Tuesday...

Weld. Right, will be in this movie, of course. Yeah, she's still alive. We'll probably get her to a least cameo. Will she be appearing on Weld's day? That's not a day. I misspoke, I meant to say Wednesday. No, she will not.

No. We are gonna get every actress who's played Wednesday Adams will be in Wednesday. Well, that sounds fantastic. I can't wait to see, will all of these be coming out on the days of the week that they are named for? No, they'll all come out on Friday. That probably won't be a problem. All right, well well this sounds great.

And then what else comes after that? I mean, you're... That's it! After that, I push out those seven films and then I will be retiring from directing to pursue other interests. That can't be! You're one of America's treasures. I just said it!

So I guess it's happening. You've got a lot of good work left of you though. Well look, I got other fish to fry, no pun intended when you hear what my next project is. Wait a minute, no pun intended, what are you talking about? You sure do like to come here often a lot when I'm talking. What I'm trying to say though is that you said no pun intended after no fish, other fish to fry.

That's right, and then I said- Did you say no fish to fry or other fish to fry by the way? I don't think the expression ever goes, I got no fish to fry. That's right. And then I said- Did you say no fish to fry or other fish to fry, by the way? Other fish. I don't think the expression ever goes, I got no fish to fry. That's why I was so confused. Why would you say something like that? Hey, again, listen, I can talk to you now. I got no fish to fry. Well, thanks very much for coming in, Gary. Wait, wait, wait. I have a feeling he was about to- Terrible host. Just about to go into his next business venture. All right, what do you have coming up?

It's pretty simple. At the request of my wife, I'm going to hunt for and capture the Loch Ness Monster. Wait a minute. From Scotland? Is that where he's from? I'll start looking there. I don't know if that's where he's from, but that's where he is. Oh, good point.

Just to be fair. I don't want to get into his lineage. Yeah. I'll probably research his known hangouts. Now, will you in fact, once caught, cut it up, fry it up, serve it up? First I put them on display. Sure. Everybody gets a good look.

We'll do like a year tour. Okay. Everybody gets a good look. Sure. Right. last? We'll do like a year tour. Okay. Everybody gets a good look. Every state. Every state. Maybe global, we'll see. And then after that I will probably cut him up and eat him. Fry him up?

Or do you? I can't do fried food anymore so I'll probably boil him. Sure. Really? Just boil him? Maybe pan sear. What about a nice sous-vide or something like that? That sounds nice.

Why don't I come over? Maybe I can give you a recipe. We'll make a night of it. Yeah, you and me. When do you expect to catch it? We'll watch all my movies and we'll cook up the lock-desk monster. I don't know. I'm just saying there could be another project in this for you. A documentary style. Are you going to film the hunt? Oh, that's not a bad idea. You're welcome. Not going to film the hunt. That's going to be too much of a hassle. That's sacred. And it's sacred, sure. A man in his hunt should not be filmed. No. No. Can you think of any good hunt movies? I remember one. There was one at the place in Red October, I believe.

I do remember that one. That's not hunting like a guy out there with a jacket with epaulets and he's shooting at an animal. Yeah, he's trying to hunt for the red october. I think that this could be a lot like a happier version of The Cove if you film the hunt, you know? Like you find the Loch Ness Monster, it ends with you chopping him up and boiling him, you know? I mean, it could- What happened to the sous-vide we were going to do? Okay, yeah, let's do that. You bailed on me already.

I don't know, you wanted to watch all your movies. I don't know, I kind of mentally checked out at that point. You can tune out, play a game on your phone, I don't care. I just like to have them on in the background. Well, alright, well I can imagine that after you catch the Loch Ness Monster, then you'll retire from monster hunting and then that'll be it. No, that's just the beginning. I'm going to capture... Look, after I make all these movies, I will probably weep because like Alexander,

I have no more movies left to make. Then I'll start on this monster hunt. He's a great director. Alexander was a hell of a director. Some people call him the first director because. We're talking about Alexander Payne, right? Yeah, that's right. Who else would we be talking about?

There's plenty of Alexanders. So then I'm going to go after... Jane? Well, her name isn't Alexander Jane though. No, it's not Jane Alexander. You call a lady by her last name. This is... He's using Jeopardy rules.

This is like the guy from 60s television is right here before me with this rudeness. The guy from the Playboy Club? Yeah, that guy. That's the show you're on, right? Yes. And I get the Pan Am ladies, how come they don't call me in? I don't understand. Speaking of Wednesday.

Right? This is what I'm saying. It's on Sundays, of course. We don't mean to confuse people. Pan Am, Sundays, NBC. ABC. So anyway, it'll take me about two weeks to find and capture the Loch Ness Monster. Then I'll move on to the Bigfoot and after that, of course, the Mothman and then probably the Jersey Devil.

Wait, the Mothman? Yeah, from West Virginia. What about the Yeti? That's made up. Oh, okay. Fair enough. All right, well good luck in your future career. Thank you.

Well, we say break a leg in the monster hunting trade. Really? It's a lot like the acting trade. That's correct Tell you what. Let's go to a song Mr. Lowe, are you ready? Yes. Yes. Come on back. Here I am. Come on back to the mic make yourself known Yeah, you have another song for us. Yes, I do I thought I'd do another song for us? Yes I do. I thought I'd do another one from the new record if that's all right. Fantastic, The Old Magic. Yes, The Old Magic is the record and the song's called I Am A Sensitive Man.

Lately when I go to steal a kiss I feel you pulling away I know something is amiss But what it is you won't say If I've done something to upset you Believe me that was never my plan But how can I fix it standing out here in the cold? I'm a sensitive man You don't always have to speak You can say it with a look Even across a crowded room You can read it like a book

But other times when there's something on your mind Make it as plain as you can Don't freeze me baby, I'm no dinky-doo I'm a sensitive man I'm a sensitive man I'm a sensitive man You can hear that in my song I'm a sensitive man What first impressions could steer you wrong? Bop, bop, bop, ba-da-da Bop, ba-da-da

Bop, bop, bop, ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da My desire is to make you happy again But I can't begin till you let me back in I'm a sensitive man, I'm a sensitive man You can hear that in my song, I'm a sensitive man My first impressions might just steer you wrong Sensitive man out in the cold Tryna do good but so misunderstood But some misunderstood, sensitive man. All right, tell you what, let's take a commercial and when we come back, we'll have more John Hamm, more Gary Marshall, and more Nick Lowe. After this, Comedy Bang Bang. All right, we are back Comedy Bang Bang and we're here with John Hamm and Gary Marshall and let's get to it.

Let's, you know what I mean? You know what I'm talking about. Sure. You guys know what's coming, right? I know what's coming. You guys know what's up. Yeah. I'm familiar with the show. All right. Everyone knows. Why are you being so cryptic about this? It's time for... Yeah, say it. The Freestyle Rap Battle. That's right. All right, here we go. All right, today's topic is autumn.

Autumn, all right. Now you always start, right? Yeah, I'll start, I'll start. We get it warmed up. We'll go clockwise, yeah. Sure. Does anyone need their headphones turned up or anything like that? Turn up my headphones.

John, how are your headphones? My headphones are fantastic. Okay, autumn, autumn. Here we go, let's see. Turn my headphones down. Nothing runs at autumn. Hey, I'm Scott, My name's not Paul. And it's time for fall.

The leaves are, they're all coming down and guess what color they are? You know, they're brown. And then there's a squirrel who gathers acorns. Oh, fuck. And he does not mourn the loss of his father because that's the circle of life. And he has a wife and she's not dead yet.

And that's how we do it. Because hey screw it it's fall we like to go to school and you know that school is not cool because who cares we're all adults we buy our own underwears that's right we don't have wives who do it we like to go out to the the department store and buy our own underwear a lot of times. I feel like I lost the thread of this rap. Let's get it back. Because Autumn in New York, Autumn in New York, that's a song by Dick York, who is on Bewitched, starring a witch.

And that's how we rap. John! Uh, uh, whose line is it anyway? Uh, uh, uh, Halloween y'all. Uh, uh, uh, Dick York is a rap star. Uh, uh, uh, bewitched! Nice rap. Alright, Mr. Marshall, are you ready for this? Of course I am!

This is why I came here! Well, my name's Kerry Marshall and I'm here to say, I like to rap in an autumnal way. A lot of people say to me, It's autumn, where'd you get those sweater vests i say up autumn listen the leaves are falling down down to the ground rounded around everybody thinks it's time to go home for thanksgiving that's where we go to celebrate the birth of our nation dw griffith y'all.

School vacation. Everybody make a turkey with your hand. Wait, make a turkey with what? Make a turkey with your hand. With your gobble gobble. Oh, anyone else want to jump in? Any other? I think we got it. We got it.

Good rap guys. Let's shut it down. Good raps. We covered fall. Good raps. Wow. Covered it. Let's shut it down. Good raps. We covered fall. Good raps. Wow. Covered it up. Covered it up. We covered it up.

Uh, Gary, uh, uh, you know what I- You're going to have to tell me son. Cause I don't know what. Gary, wait, uh, you ever, you ever going to have to tell me, son, because I don't know what. Gary, wait, uh, you ever going to make any, um, movies out of, uh, the, the television shows that you have, you know, how the Brady Bunch movies were big and, uh, this is a thing that people ask me over the years. And the thing is I want to preserve the sanctity of those, what are you laughing at?

I just, I enjoy life. Those shows, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Joni Loves Chachi, Mork and Mindy, they changed the world, Scott. They taught people that it's okay to like a guy who rides a motorcycle he's not so bad they said it's hey if you live next door to two weirdos who seem to have unfettered access to your apartment they're not so bad they have feelings let's say a spaceman comes down he's not necessarily gonna vanquish the human race he just wants to mate with one of us.

And only one. And only one. That's not so bad. Is he so different from us? That's how we mate for life, humans. Sometimes. Sometimes people get divorced. But you take my meaning.

Half of the divorce is ending in sweatpants, whatever. That show was set in the 60s, that Whitney, the things that I could do to relate that to regular people, I'd even have an episode with a black guy like I did on Happy Days that time. I didn't know, I didn't realize that was from Whitney. I thought that was from Irma Bombeck. Oh, that's right. What is it with you?

She predates sweatpants. What is it with you in the 60s? Why does everything have to be in the 60s? What is it about the 60s that was evocative to you? I invested a lot of money in a company that makes old fashioned hair care products and Argyle sweaters. And so all these projects came across my desk and the happy days was supposed to be a modern-day thing I said hey, what if we said it was that how they came up with the character of Fonzie? That's exactly right. That's amazing

That's exactly I've never heard the story before. Yeah. Hey And then they and then they said hold on hold on say that again Everybody's ears pricked up and we knew we had something. Right. We said we just have to invent a character who says this phrase. So that character wasn't invented yet. No, nobody knew from Arthur Fonzarelli. So it really was just about Mr. C, Mrs. C, Richie C.

It was just about Mr. C. That's how Happy Day started, just about Tom Bosley. Amazing, too. I can tell that when you come up with a character name like Arthur Fonzarelli, the first person you think of automatically, Henry Winkler. Absolutely. Hank Winkler. Hank Winkler.

I said, who's the most Italian guy I know? It's gotta be Henry Winkler. What about this nebbish over here? I got him on the phone, Hen, you gotta come and do this. It's perfect, it's right up your alley, it's an Italian greaser. And you, cause you had seen him, I think. Lawd's a flat bush. You had seen him, and also you guys, I think, went to the same temple.

Yeah, that's right. Well, I'm Italian. I might, I might be Jewish at this point. It's been so long. Who knows? Life is long. I've been away from the Bronx long enough in Hollywood. I'm probably a Jew by now.

My point is those TV shows are sacred. They should never be movies at the end. That said, what if, what if there was a possibility, maybe a Broadway musical? Now you're talking. This is what I like to hear. There was a musical that you wrote that was down the street from my house at the Falcon Theater.

My theater? Yeah, that you own. So the- What musical was this? It was the Happy Days musical. Paul Williams wrote the music for it. What? You were involved?

No, I wasn't! They did it at my theater! That sneaky prick! That little freak gay snuck into my house! He's small. He's very small! He could be here right now! He's coming through the dog door? You laugh, but he could fit through a dog door. He would do it at parties.

It was the most boring trick. He'd get everybody's attention, and then he'd crawl through the dog door. Everybody would say, so what? He went, I just came through the dog door. That doesn't do anything for you. Everybody went back to being drunk. That's what parties were back then. Parties these days are just such a letdown.

What does everybody do? They're doing cocaine all the time. Yeah, what do people do in parties now? Wheatgrass. Just all wheatgrass. Good drag. John, would you ever want to do a Mad Men, John, would you ever want to do a Mad Men movie?

Mad Men, that's hard to say. I don't think so. No? I don't think so. Like X-Files did, a couple of them, you know? Yeah, but they weren't very good, were they? I don't know. Were they?

I don't know. I didn't see them. Yeah, no one saw them. Let's couple of them, you know? Yeah, but they weren't very good, were they? I don't know. Were they? I don't know. I didn't see them. Yeah, no one saw them. Let's prejudge them, though, for sure. I don't think, I think that when you're on the air for 13 episodes per season, I think that's plenty of time to tell a story.

It's like a 13-hour movie. I don't understand what you leave in the bag. Well, you know, stakes would have to be raised. Like, you know, someone gets kidnapped, and you like- A space alien shows up. Sure. He wants to impregnate one of the ladies. Yeah, yeah.

But I don't know if that would necessarily be the tone of the show. So I think you'd be making something else. You say not necessarily, but just open your heart a little bit. To me? I'll show you love if you've got the key. I don't know, I think it could be good.

I mean, you know, I mean, you'd have to get some, you know, some big stars. You put big stars in. I think that's the better opportunity is that you would, you would completely recast it. You would maybe tell an origin story, a reboot of the franchise. An orgy story.

An origin. Origin story. Like how the origin, or how the character originated. Then I think you could do it. I think you get a J.J. Abrams. I think you get a Joss Whelan. Yes, get a lot of lens flare in there. I think you get a, I think you could do it. I think you could get a J.J. Abrams. I think you could get a Joss Whedon. Yes, get a lot of lens flare in there. I think you could get a filmmaker,

and I think you really kind of recharge it, and you certainly get a new cast. I wish you had more chances to say my name and not take it. J.J. Abrams, Joss Whedon. Yeah, get these two nerds in there. It sounds to me like your schedule is packed JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon, yeah get these two nerds in there. It sounds to me like your schedule is packed up until the Monster Hunter. Here's what's wrong with Mad Men, not enough prosthetics.

You know, that is interesting because directors nowadays are nerds, you know, and you hearken from an era. We invented that word. Yeah! I think we did. I think so, who can remember? We popularized did. I think so. Who can remember? We popularized it at the very least. Who can remember the 50s?

Now these people are proud of being nerds and saying I'm a nerd about this, I'm a nerd about that. I love nerds. It wasn't a compliment, it was an insult. You think Pottsie, he ever said I'm proud to be a nerd? No, he lived in fear that Fonzie was gonna crush him, crush his skull with a pipe. And be told to sit on it or some such...

You know that was... Sit on his own crushed skull? Yeah. That's what that meant, that expression. I... Sit on it always implied one's own crushed skull. I've always wanted to know this because, and it's been bothering me for decades now, Pottsie, Anson Williams.

That's right. Now a director? What was the character Pottsie's real name? Because I think I know it. Take a guess. Potstricia. You're so close. I think it was Potsticker, wasn't it? Potts and Jammer?

You're cold. I'm cold from Potstricia? He was warmer with Potstricia. Alright. So where'd we land on this? Potts and Jammer? It was Potstrick. Potstrick.

Yeah. Oh. Shakespearean. Dear Potstrick. I knew him well. It was based on a character out of Shakespeare. And that's why the skull sitting on the creche skull. I get it.

I get it. That's right. I get it. We're all smart. We're smart people. That's very deep. High level of intelligence in this room. It was meant to haunt people

and I'm glad that it did its job. I'm surprised I didn't get that question more. 30 years. 30 years we've been- You know where that answer isn't? The internet. Yeah. That's right.

I kept it close to the vest. You should update your Wikipedia page though now. Or at least POTSies. It's exhausting. I was editing POTSies for a while and then it got to be too much. Oh, so many facts to add. Well, plus people going in there and adding false facts. Somebody tried to say he was the president at one point.

And it turns out that was just in some Happy Days fan fiction. Wait, is that though, is that actually, what do you call it? True? No. False? Yes. What do you call it? Fuck I'm blanking.

A dream? What do you call it when it's in canon? Is it canon? It is part of the secret canon of Happy Days. I kept writing scripts long after the show went off the air Yeah, I still do one every once in a while if I got some free time tell the story There's this book where Chewbacca always telling the story that you should you should check out because it's canonical

Sad The firm I'm so sad. It really was. I read that. What book was that? The Firm? Stars and Chewbacca getting hit by a car? There's this book, The Firm. Chewbacca gets hit by a car. All right guys, let's go to Mr. Lowe again. Who cares? Go ahead.

Nobody's stopping you. That's what I'm saying. Okay. I'm not mad at you. Let's go to him and he'll sing a song for us. Alright. Is it a Nick Lowe song? I hope so.

Let's see it together. Alright Mr. Lowe, you ready? Yeah. Come on back here. I am, yeah. What do you have next for us? I thought I'd do this one. It's a slightly older one, this, but... All men

All men are liars Their words ain't worth no more than worn out tires Hey girls, bring rusty pliers to pull this tooth All men are liarsars and that's the truth well do you remember Rick Astley he had a big fat hit, it was guy Slade He said, I'm never gonna give you up or let you down Well, I'm here to tell you that Rick's a clown Rick's a clown

Though he was just a boy when he made that vow I'd bet it all that he knows by now All men, all men are liars Their words ain't worth no more than worn out time Hey girls, bring rusty pliers to pull his tooth All men are liars and that's the truth Of all God's creatures man must be The most slimy and slippery There stands the naked ape in a monkey suit. Behind a little mustache he grew the shifty boot. All the ones not

choking on the words they ate are sweating on getting their story straight, all men, all men are liars Their word is in the world, they know no more They never walk, never die Hey girl, bring rust to pliers to pull this tooth All men are liars, and all men are liars Yeah, the whole men are liars And that's the truth I'm sort of clapping in protest because you call him Mr. Low, you call me Gary. Well you're a friend. I'm an old man, I've earned respect.

Yeah I know but you've been on the show several times. Address me with respect Scott. The last few times you said call me Gary. I demand you address me with respect. Alright Mr. Gary. Call me Gary. Alright guys. Mr. Gary was my father. It's time for one of our favorite features here on the show. It's time for a little something we call Would You Rather?

What's that? It's a fanfare. Where's that coming from? A fanfare. Is that Nick Lowe? A fanfare for two not common men. Please don't talk during the thing. I'll be in my own game. All right, it's time to play Would You Rather and we all know how this is played. People send me Would You Rather scenarios to our Twitter, which is CBBWYR, Comedy Bang Bang Would You Rather, and I read them out loud. I'll open the floor for questions.

You can ask me any question you like about either of the scenarios, and then I'll shut down the floor. We'll vote, we'll tally up the points, and everything will be all hunky dory. But that would never end. So I'm gonna do something I've never done before on the show, I'm gonna do a combo question.

What's this now? You seem very suspicious. I am! People send me questions all the time and sometimes I like one of the scenarios but I don't like the other one. Like I think one half of it will be funny. You'll mix it up? So I'm gonna combine.

I'm gonna combine two people. I think that's your prerogative. So you not only crowdsource the material, then you pick and choose. So. Yeah. I say it's not good enough. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. Partially good enough. Uh, so this, today's question is going to be a combo from, uh, Amos Hunter, whose Twitter handle is happy Amos fun, uh, combined with Tony Wirt, who is Werter, W I R T E R. If you want to look him up, him or her. I wonder how long he's been an Amos Hunter. How come the one guy doesn't call himself

Werter's originals? You think he ever goes around hunting for a red October at all? Or. I hope so. Did they ever catch that by the way? They never did. All right, here we go.

They ask, would you rather, they ask, would you rather always laugh to the tune of the mash theme song or have Tony Danza appear as a devil slash angel on each shoulder for every decision you make? Would you all rather always laugh to the tune of the MASH theme song or have Tony Danza appear as a devil or angel on each shoulder for every decision you make? I'm opening the floor for questions. I have a question.

Yes, Kerry Marshall. I'm afraid I was not looking up, I did not see your finger, John. I saw that he had his finger raised and I went in and undercut him so that I could get the first question in. I know you love to get the first question. I'm very competitive.

All right, what's your question then? In the scenario where I laugh to the tune of the MASH theme song, is it in tune? Do I do it well or is it atonal? In this scenario, you have perfect pitch. So you are able to do it in tune with harmonies, anything you want to do.

I got a follow up. Is there ever a time where I do the vocal version from the movie, including the words, so it just seems like I'm singing the theme from that? This gets along to my question as well. Okay. Yes, there is. There is a time, but it's only when someone very close to you has committed suicide and you're at their funeral. I got one more question. Okay, one more.

What happens when I cry? That is a great question. You actually cry tears that when they drop down, they resonate vibrationally into the Sanford and Son theme song. Does that go for tears of happiness as well? No, tears of happiness, they play, Here Comes the Bride. What about tears of excruciating pain?

Tears of excruciating pain. These are the three kinds of tears. Yeah, this is the Green Acres theme song, but with the lyrics. Yeah, John, you had a question? It's a very simple question. In the aforementioned scenario, both verses, how long do you have to keep laughing?

Unless you're at your friend's funeral, you just laugh the normal amount that you would laugh for anything. In fact, I'd love to hear you try to laugh. It takes a lot of breath. That's all joining in! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It's like he just got back from Bermuda. What era Tony Danza? This is a classic Danza. Who's the boss? Taxi or boss?

No, I'm sorry. This is classic, meaning who's the boss. Fair enough. Fair enough. And he addresses you as Angela. Let me ask a good question. He addresses your right ear as Angela and your left ear as Samantha.

OK. Does he give the angel and the devil? Yeah. Do they give advice when you have to make a decision? Or do they just appear there and it's creepy? They appear to everyone who's looking at you. And- Oh, I don't see them.

No, you don't see them at all. Everybody else sees them. Everyone else sees them. Anytime I have to make a decision, they appear, everybody else. So do I even know that- And they're miming. Do I know that they're there?

No, no, no. And no one has the heart to tell me. So I never know when this happens. Follow up. Yes. Are they in costume? They are. They're in Halloween costume, but those sexy angel-

Slutty, slutty, slutty, slutty. Sexy slutty, yeah. Okay. Yeah, so garter belt. Danza was a fit man. Fork and tail. Yeah. Can I hear them?

Oh, yes, you can hear them as like slight murmuring. You assume that you have some sort of mental disease where you... Makes perfect sense. So I never figure out through my whole life that this is what's going on. People all of a sudden looking at me strangely, I hear some murmuring. And you check yourself into a mental hospital first. And you check yourself into a mental hospital. Before I wreck myself into a mental hospital. Of course you do.

And you lick it before you kick it and all of the above. And yeah, it pretty much ruins your life and you spend your golden years with two Danzas. Boy, you got excited. Do I ever have to make a decision in front of Tony Danza? Great question. They turn your plight into a TV movie starring Tony Danza and then you play the angels on his shoulders. But nobody tells me this is based on my life.

No, of course not. You die not knowing that. You just happen to get a great job. And you're constantly like, I wonder why they would hire a mental patient. Oh, this is after I've gone crazy in the sanitary Oh, yeah, you're in the sanitary You're in the rubber room and then all of a sudden you're plucked from what you think is obscurity and you have a great acting Job the way how long does a TV movie last? Oh weeks. Yeah, probably talking lifetime. Are we talking Hallmark? Oh, so a lifetime. Yeah, it can last a Lifetime. Okay.

They cracked that stuff out at Lifetime. They got it down to a science. It's good. Yeah. So it's more like a Bee's Lifetime. They use a lot of the same scenes in the Lifetime movies. The middle of the movie, it's the same thing every time. It's just because all of them have Meredith Baster-Burney in them, so it's just easy to

plug and play. She just backs to now because she made some discoveries about herself in late years. You know what we're talking about, John. Some sexy discoveries. No, that sounds great. Is there a Lifetime movie? Everybody loves Sexy Discoveries.

I mean, if there was a channel, I'd tune in. I would watch a movie called Sexy Discoveries, or Plug and Play, starring her think I think that's the subtitle No more plug and play for her. Sexy discoveries cold like rub and play back to the game When the mash scenario, uh-huh. Maybe we should laugh again when I Let's save it for a time. We really need it when Let's save it for a time we really need it. When, do I ever laugh in front of any of the cast members of MASH?

You do. TV show or movie? The TV show, but only the after MASH cast members. So we're talking, uh, uh, uh, Chris Potter. William Christopher? I know them by their character names, Klinger, Potter, and of course, Father Mulcahy. William Christopher. What? William Christopher played Father Mulcahy. All right, so yeah, those three. And how do they react to this? Are they offended? Are they delighted?

They say, always nice to meet a fan. And how do I feel about laughing this way? Do I enjoy it? And how do I feel about laughing this way? Do I enjoy it? You love it. It brings great mirth to your life. It actually encourages you to laugh more often because you're a very sad person. What if I go to a comedy movie and I'm really enjoying it and laughing the Smash theme. Do I get thrown out of the movie theater? What happens?

People get upset, I bet. They get upset, but they don't throw you out of the movie theater? What happens? People get upset, I bet. No, they get upset, but they don't throw you out of the theater. They escort you to the other theater where MASH is playing in a revival house. Would people like that any better? Of course they would. They're trying to watch MASH. Because it's all over the film.

People kind of, they hear you laughing to the MASH theme and they nod and go, Hey, you know. We get it. If it, if it had to be somewhere, at least here. Another question about the laughing. Is it, do I have to say like, you know, you have a different length of laughter based on how funny you think something is.

Sometimes you think something's a little funny. You just get a little laugh. I feel like this was the first question. But go ahead. Oh, was it really? Ask an answer. Oh, well, but... Okay, well... What's your Gary Marshall spin on it that we want to hear?

I can't remember the wording of the question. Was it every time you... You were too busy following up your original question. I think. Look, you got to get in there. Are you saying... You realize, by the way way that I don't award points just for the questions you ask. No I understand. I understand but it's I'm

trying to the speedier I get in there with my questions the more information I have I feel like I'm more confident. You're a great player. You're a great player. I don't mean- Good follow-up because I think this does bear a huge amount. I know Mr. Marshall has a lot of history. Please call me Gary. Thank you Gary. Has a lot of history with not only Tony Danza, Catherine Hellman, Alicia Milano. Alyssa Wong.

Alyssa. Both of them. Both of them. So does that, do they bring any sort of personal resonance into this because I don't want to be, any sort of personal resonance into this? Because I don't want to be, have sort of a weird, there's a question whether or not this guy has a little influence over what happens on my shoulders. If I'm guessing you're-

Oh, you're putting me into this scenario! This is unprecedented. Well, we're both in the scenario, tell me I'm wrong. You're, I'm sorry, what did you- I said we're both in the scenario. He has sort of prejudicial knowledge of all of these characters. Right. Having worked with them alongside of them.

So meaning if you both choose. But this is an alternate universe. This is a, what if in this universe I don't even exist. This is my question. I became a bricklayer. Well here's what happens, okay? If you both choose this scenario, then Gary Marshall is in the scenario and he has prior knowledge of Tony Danza and the whole cast and it kind of ruins it for you because you're

not special anymore. Got it. However, if he does not choose it, then you're the only one and you become the mental patient and you star in the TV movie, but everyone loves you. But no one loves you if Gary Marshall chooses this thing. So it's time to vote. No wait, it's, well, well okay. All right here we go. I think we should do it the same time then because one. That's right it's a lot like poker you want to declare at the same time. All right so we're gonna ask you to vote at the same time. What is it A or B or or Danza

Tears or what is it? It's uh uh uh uh uh it's uh., mash, mash, mash, laugh. Yeah. That's the tears. No, it's laugh. Laugh Danza. So, uh, so fly left ends. It's a beautiful air. So hold up one finger for laugh. Two for Danza. This is on the radio.

Yeah, I know, but I'll judge it. I'll judge it. And we're, and we're going to, we're going to go five, four, three, nose, one, and then vote. Okay. All right? Now, one finger for?

One for laugh, two for Danza. Okay, and I'll be- What about the thumb? Does not count. Not a finger. Does not count, okay? So it's gotta be the fingers, all right? So on the count, I want you to say it with me.

Five, four, three, nose, one, and then shoot. All right? Are you guys ready? I'm ready Mr. Marshall, I was please call me Gary. Thank you so much. Gary. Are you ready? I'm ready. All right, mr. Ham I am ready. All right, here we go and five four three nose one shoot Okay, let me describe what happened John Ham picked the Tony Danza scenario

and in a surprise upset, Mr. Marshall... I picked the let. I was kind of waiting for you to say, call me Gary. Oh, this is it. I think it calls for Mr. Marshall here. All right, Mr. Marshall. This is a big moment. Mr. Marshall picked the mash laugh.

That's right. So a happy ending here for John Hamm and an unhappy ending for Mr. Marshall picked the mash laugh. That's right. So a happy ending here for Jon Hamm and an unhappy ending for Mr. Marshall because he chose incorrectly. But uh... I chose with my heart. You chose with your heart. I chose unselfishly.

So there we have it. So Jon, you're a winner. Congratulations. Congratulations, you played a good game. Thank you, thank you. I thought so. It all came down to that shooting. I tell you, if you'd only picked the other one.

Well, then it wouldn't have been as good for John in that reality. Well, that is of course how we play Would You Rather. And yep, there it is again. Goal. Where'd it go? Back. What's this, 36 inches high?

Nice one, Nick! No, it's not him playing. It's not him playing. How's he doing it without that? It's the intro to Mary Provost, I think. All right, guys, that's how we play Would You Rather. That was a fun game. Congratulations to John Hammer, winner.

And we only have one thing left, which is which is of course a little something we call plugs. I hope there's no song. There's a long one so prepare yourself. And now it's nearly here, I can taste it! It's time for the comedy! Bang, bang! What's up, hot dog memorial? Vlogs Segment of the Comedy Bang Bang audio podcast program What's up, Hot Dog?

Memorial. Never forget. All right. That is, let's see, that is Send in the Plugs by Bad Canyon. Bad Canyon. And if you have a plugs theme for our What's Up Hot Talk Memorial plug section, go to earwolf.com to our message board under the comedy bang bang.

There's a little plugs theme thread devoted to this. And that was a good one. I agree. It was a fantastic canyon. Johnny, it's all up to you. What do you have to plug? Nothing. Nothing coming out until March.

Please watch Mad Men when it comes out, season five, in March. Does that come out in March? Comes out in March. What about the silver screen? Nothing? Friends with Kids, starring myself, friend of the show Adam Scott, friend of the show Maya Rudolph,

friend of the show Kristen Wiig. Friend of the show Jen Westphelt. Friend of the show Jen Westphelt, friend of the show Eddie Burns, friend of the show, Jen Westphelt. Friend of the show, Jen Westphelt. Friend of the show, Eddie Burns. Friend of the show, Megan Fox. Yes. I would love for her to be a friend of the show. If you can hook that up in any way. Why are you scowling at me?

I think I know what that means. You put Jessica Beale in your movies. Yeah, I put her in the movie. The way you say you want her to be a friend of the show, it sounds like it's double entendre. You think that when I say friend of the show, it sounds like it's double entend. You think that when I say friend of the show, the show is my penis?

Is that what you're saying? I think, oh, come on, what this vulgarity. That'll be in theaters, hopefully, hopefully in the early spring of 2012. From your lips to God's ears. Exactly. And yeah, watch season five and buy the season four DVD. What do you say? That's some great work you did.

Thank you, sir. And Gary Marshall, what do you have to plug? Scott, as unorthodox as this is. I please just plug your thing. We don't have any time. I hope you will allow an old man a favor. I would like to cede my plug time to someone else. No, we do not do this.

My friend, please, can I bring my friend in? Not only do we not do this, we've never done this. We don't have enough room in this studio. Don't open the door for a friend. Wait a minute. Who is this? Oh, hey. Hey, guys.

Oh, this is a friend. Yeah, hey. I'm a friend of the show. You know what I mean. We are. I thought he meant a friend of his, not a friend of the show. Paul F. Tompkins is here. Hey, Paul. Hi, guys. How are you? How are you? friend of the show. You know what I mean. I thought he meant a friend of his not a friend of the show Well, Paul F. Tompkins is here. Hi guys. How are you? How's the show been going? Super good. Great. Loved it Good. You should do the show sometime. How do you know Gary Marshall? Oh, just from show business. That's amazing. Yeah from show business parties

I get I get from some of those drinking cocaine parties. Yeah We met at a wheatgrass party. That's how they do it now You have something to plug from what I hear? I do have some things to plug and it was nice of Mr. Marshall. He allows me to call him. Did he leave by the way? He's just waiting right outside. Okay. Yeah. Are you giving him a ride? Yeah, I'm gonna give him a ride. Right now he's just like from what it looks like he's just standing in the corner staring at the wall Blair Witch style. Okay. That's what he does. See he's in sleep mode. Powered down. Oh yeah, exactly.

Like C-3PO. You have an interesting accent. I have, oh thank you. I didn't realize there was a little accent mark. Can I do my fucking plugs? Okay. First off, the Pod F Tomcast is back. It's back.

Friend of the show. Friend of the show. Another pod, another show is back. And that's downloadable on iTunes. Also on iTunes, the Dead Authors podcast, which Scott, you are going to be a guest on very soon. You don't say. That's right.

That's right. You recorded mine? I did. I recorded them all. I love it. Yes. But it's, it's a subscribe to that. That's on. You recorded mine? I did. I recorded them all. I love it. But it's a subscribe to that. That's in iTunes now. I had a great time doing that. And the premise of the show is basically that you are H.G. Wells and you interview authors

who are currently dead in our current time period, but you bring them from the past. Yes, in my magical time machine. Yes. That's a magical scientific. All science is magical. That's true. That's true. But that's a great podcast that I do. It's all comedy, but it's

to spread awareness of 826LA, which is a wonderful mentoring and tutoring program. Here in Los Angeles. Here in Los Angeles. Yes. And also October 15th, this Saturday, as you're hearing this, the Paul Tompkins show. As the crow flies. Yeah, as the crow flies hearing this. As if with his little earbuds.

He's looking for string and shiny rocks. A lot of people don't realize this, crows fly using sound. And wearing clothes. Not unlike Banshee from the X-Men. Also not unlike. What a terrible power. Screaming.

I can fly but I have to scream at the top of my lungs. Ah, here I come. Very unpleasant. Ah! It's marginally better underwater. But I can stun a whale. I hear Sheryl Crow has that power, too. Yeah, she does. Why she started singing.

Yeah, that's right. All I want is ah! Ah! Anyway. Everything is a whine. All right, well, that's enough of your plug. The ball of Tompkins Show with Largo at the Coronet and West Hollywood. Never disappoints. Rich Summer from Mad Men will be one of our guests.

Not familiar with him. The section string quartet will be our musical guest and some very special surprise guests. Always surprise guests. Can't wait for that. Always surprise guests. You were one such surprise guest one time. I was. I was unveiled. Always surprise guest. I cannot wait for that. Always surprise guest. Yes, I will. You were one such surprise guest one time. I was.

I was unveiled. You were unveiled. John entered the scene wearing this SWAT riot helmet and then he put up the visor and I was like, here it comes. The moment they realized it's him. And they couldn't figure it out. He would not turn and face the audience. I'm like, come on you motherfucker.

Let him see. I got a big name here on the show. I think I did eventually. No, you eventually did. I was in the scene. And then you told people to stop. You were on the show. I think I did eventually. No, you eventually did. I was in the scene.

And then you told people to stop. You were in the scene. That's right. I was in the scene. Always the professional. That's right. Well, I want to plug, go check out our... I don't want to listen to this. Goodbye. Oh boy. Hey, Gary, come on back in. Gary, wake up. Well, it's about Paul F. Tompkins, but you can get our live from Bumbershoot shows on

iTunes of course and Earwolf.com. We had a lot of fun doing those. And the weirdest dream! What happened? I dreamt I was dreaming! And we also want to let Nick Lowe plug, of course, his new album. Come on back here, Nick, if you would. Come on back.

Yeah, okay. And you've been playing songs from it, The Old Magic. The Old Magic. Yes. Not ye Old Magic, The Old Magic. So The Old Magic, and it's a fantastic record. And if I can implore everyone who, if everyone who is listening to this right now were to buy it this week You'd have a number one album. Yeah would so I mean how great of a surprise would that be if

All the sudden you're looking up billboard and you'd have to credit me I will assure you a drink a drink would be flying your way Scott And of course you have you're on tour, which is why we're lucky enough to have you here. You're touring this week I know tonight if you're listening to this on Monday you're in Portland, right? No, in San Francisco. San Francisco, sorry. The Great American, one of my favorite venues. Great theater and then Wednesday in Portland. Yes, at the Aladdin Theater, another one of my faves. They're modest places. I mean, I've been on tour with Wilco for the last while playing some

very grand places, so I'm back to the sticky floored end of the market. Do you like the smaller places better or the bigger places? That's a very good question, Scott. Is it? I suppose I like playing in the small places, you know, I do, but obviously there's a little more dough to be made in the slightly bigger places. All right, so let's I want to thank my guests here. John Hamm, thank you so much for coming by. Thank you, Scott. Always a pleasure.

And Gary Marshall. Please. Good luck with your- Call me Mr. Marshall, then I can say call me Gary. All right, Mr. Marshall. Please call me Gary. Gary, good luck with your film in three weeks. It's gonna be a big hit. Thank you.

Get ready to see that Loch Ness Monster. Yeah. It's going to be good and then he's going to be delicious. I changed my mind. I'll be there. I'm glad to hear it. I'm going to bring my little machine, the Sous Vide stuff. You won't be sorry.

My plastic baggies. Oh, you got one of those George Foreman Sous Vide machines. I do. Is he doing that now? Yeah, he is. He's covering all the bases. Good choice. All right, guys.

Thanks very much. Let's hear another song from Nick Lowe, and we will see you next week. Thanks, bye. Searching for light in the darkness of insanity I ask myself, is all hope lost? It's their only pain, hatred and misery And each time I feel like this inside There's one thing I wanna know What's so funny about peace, love and understanding?

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? And as I walk on through troubled times My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes Where are the strong and who are the trusted? And where is the harmony? And each time I feel it slipping away You know it just makes me wanna cry What's so funny about peace love? Understanding

Ooh, ooh, ooh What's so funny about peace love? And understanding I'll be slow and understand Ooh, where are the strong And who are the trusted And where is the harmony? Sweet harmony Cause each time I feel it slipping away

You know it just makes me wanna cry What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? What's so funny about peace of understanding? Understanding brother, understanding sister, understanding Standing