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...many events do you think I should be working?" Obama says with a laugh when I ask him about the lackadaisical pace. Comparatively, I say, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 kept much brisker schedules; Kerry, who had named his running mate, John Edwards, weeks before the convention, spent the last week of the primaries hustling through a bus tour from Norfolk, Va., to Philadelphia and on to New York City, while Gore barnstormed across battleground states, doing a "handoff" in Michigan to the Clintons, who preceded him to the convention...
...stage productions of old hit movies - Erin Brockovich played by teens - which are routinely panned by the local critic, another student at the school. No one cares for him, including his wife, Brie (Catherine Keener, in another of those roles that require her to do no more than laugh a lot at the hero's inadequacies...
...Jerry reached out to spend time with me. We became friends. I would go to his house in East Hampton and listen to records and marvel at his commentary, always colorful, always mesmerizing and always smart. Artists from every genre would join us, but it was Jerry with his laugh, lexicon and turns of phrase who held center stage. He might have been the elder statesman among us, but when the music played, the years swept away and his youthful enthusiasm bubbled over. Music can lift the soul, change the mood, teach the mind and touch the heart...
What do you think the fans are expecting? They probably won't expect what we look like. We look like the runner-up in a Cheech and Chong look-a-like contest. [Laughs] But they hear Cheech's voice and they hear my voice, everybody's going to go, "Ah, okay." We're all about being funny and making people laugh at stupid things...
...that they should be passed around and shared. Oh that's right. I did say that. [Laughs] People try to put ownership on things: "That's mine, that's my joke." No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, "Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin." You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh...