{"id":5302,"date":"2012-12-23T17:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T17:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2012-12-23T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T18:12:41","slug":"never-mind-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/23\/never-mind-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"albert brooks, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2013\/01\/albert-brooks-this-is-40\" target=\"_blank\">vanity fair interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I did a bit on <i>The Tonight Show,<\/i> early on, this bit Alberto and His Elephant Bimbo. I was a European elephant trainer. I came out and I was dressed up with a whip, and I was distraught because the elephant never arrived, and I said, \u201cLook, the show must go on. <i>The Tonight Show,<\/i> all they could get me was this frog, so I will do my best.\u201d So I took a live frog and put it through all these elephant tricks. Every time he did a trick I threw peanuts at him. And the last trick, I said, \u201cI call this trick \u2018Find the nut, boy!\u2019 I gave the peanut to somebody on the stage. I walked over and gave it to Doc Severinsen. \u201cThe elephant will find the peanut!\u201d I took this frog. I threw this black huge cloth over him, the one I said I used to blindfold the elephant, and this black rag started hopping all over the place till it eventually hopped over to Doc Severinsen. It actually found him. I didn\u2019t know what the hell the frog was going to do. So after the bit I sit down at the panel, and Jack Benny was on. There was always that last two minutes where Johnny was asking people, \u201cThank you for coming\u2014what do you have coming up?\u201d And during the last commercial Jack Benny leaned over to Johnny Carson and said, \u201cWhen we get back, ask me where I\u2019m going to be, will you?\u201d So they came back. Johnny said, \u201cI want to thank Albert. Jack, where are you going to be performing?\u201d And Jack Benny said, \u201cNever mind about me\u2014this is the funniest kid I\u2019ve ever seen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>J.A.<\/b><i>Wow.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>A.B.<\/b> And it was this profound thing. Like, Oh, <i>that\u2019s<\/i> how you lead your life. Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the vanity fair interview: I did a bit on The Tonight Show, early on, this bit Alberto and His Elephant Bimbo. I was a European elephant trainer. I came out and I was dressed up with a whip, and I was distraught because the elephant never arrived, and I said, \u201cLook, the show must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}