here comes woody allen, this schlameal. this was something new in stand-up comedy. >> where do you get your humor? >> it's like a genetic mutation. i say it and it comes as a great shock to me. it's like a pleasant surprise to hear myself say it. it's like i'm not even conscious of the thing happening. >> he happened to be an incredible craftsman of jokes. when you listen to a joke of his, it's almost like a little haiku. he was conscious of the writing of the joke, and that's also inspirational. >> woody allen is about as secular a jew as they come. he never felt judaism as a religion. woody has always been much more interested in the big questions than the day-to-day. he's still asking about the nature of existence and is there a god. it's a theme he works again and again in his movies. >> mom, come out. >> of course there's a god, you idiot. you don't believe in god. >> but if there's a god, then why is there so much evil in the world? just on a simplistic level, why were there nazis? >> tell him, max. >> how the hell do

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larry david, woody allen, eddie murphy, steve martin, all these people were immensely respected standups. >> have i started yet? i have, okay, let's go. >> i think a lot of standup comedians have an am bib lent relationship withstandup comedy. it's like a stepping stone for those people like they had something else on their mind. >> if they bop, they go god damn it. >> steve martin quit doing standup at the height of his fame. >> i knew it was over about a year before i stopped. i wasn't being creative in it anymore. and i didn't really know how to write for such a big audience. >> i spent $150 for a tape recorder and as i talk into it, it goes, i know, i know. >> woody allen was a very shy person. he was the last person in the world you would think would become a performer. as soon as he was able to leave standup for believes he did. >> every time i try and do something serious, people laugh at me which would be a problem if i tried to do a serious movie ever. i would like to make a movie where i was real serious in it. >> the comedians that just walked away from standup all became movi

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allen wears one of these. what-- what is this? >> he actually served in that unit back in the day. a little-known fact. >> stephen: that's how he got to know bergman. what is this? who is the specialness of this? >> it's a hat. no, it's-- yeah, they dropped us in the woods for what felt like six months, but i think it was 10 days, and it was like a survival course where you basically had to-- there were different stations -- >> stephen: by yourself? >> the unit, yeah, it was me and three other guys. >> stephen: what time of year? >> winter. >> stephen: winter in sweden. that-- >> and then there were different-- it was like an ambush, and then they held us hostage. and you're, obviously, like, sleep deprived and you don't eat. at one point i remember we had to assemble a canoe. and that was horrible because we had been weak for a week, and we were starving and we're from the land ikea, so we should be able to do that. ( laughter ). >> stephen: did it come with an alan wrench, the canoe? that's the problem. >> i

their lives in a woody allen world and you know what's in that case. i would say you are. good and also that and assume we're close because in the summary i welcome the number to my guns and. let them look it up you know when i get the data give it to c.n.n. we're going to go through the very how we got will get it out. it will cause a good look at. the go on with. margaret will spend a month at a maternal home like this one in the grounds of salema hospital. this way she is sure to deliver in the facility. the women here fend for themselves for weeks while they wait to deliver. in one of the poorest countries in the world the government is battling to fulfill its pledge to build one hundred and fifty new waiting homes across the country. i was. i was certain that i do wonder trying to decide if i'm as a man is was i going to know about it in a remote doesn't have an organ or you have a lot of again. that . was enough that you know you're not. going to be. stupid to sixty i was. just. the easy. was but honestly i. was not but i don't i didn't know what will go. on. on my i

it has a woody allen sensibility. it takes place at david's deathbed. to me about how everybody in that story works. who is a audible character. and who is a schmuck. i deliberately didn't read it until i finished mine. i laughed out loud when i did read it. see mick peter in greenwich connecticut, thank you. i am a vineyard fan too. congratulations on a wonderful career and a raising true. i'm a landscape architect. i was studying in providence and spending time on the vineyard. the latitudes are almost exactly the same. when you read as some of the ancient text and so forth they are all very important. it's kind of fun to think about when you're on the vineyard. i know the days are different in the time. that sense of place. in the specific up part of the place. i'm a big fan of what they do to help them appreciate and enhance those environments. thank you. history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by the cable television companies. and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress the white house the supre

i love that quote from woody allen if you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans. as we all know, this plan goes off of the rails, and a disastrous fashion, in september 1914 with the battle of martin. by the time you have early october 1914 you have two armies glaring at each other, north of paris along the river, the first thing that they are trying to do is find the flank with the other folks. so, then they can get the momentum back and gain inertia. the other guy thinking the same thing, by the time you get to summer 1914 you now have an unbroken line of trenches, an unbroken line of troops along 400 miles. from the north sea in belgium all the way to the swiss border. these opening weeks of the war, have been devastating. in fact, in one day 22 august 1914, the french lose 27,000. putting that in perspective, in 17 years of fighting in afghanistan and iraq, the u.s. military has lost 6997. they do not have an answer to this. the soldiers figured out something. if you're going to live on this battlefield, you had better dig deep. because only by digging into mo

>> well, first of all, i don't know if you remember woody allen's movie "bananas." the language of san marcos will be swedish and everybody has to change their underwear and everybody has to wear them on the outside. that's what this reminds me of. the white house is perfectly entitled to set these rules. it's their house. the media there is absolutely obligated to violate them all. that's just the way this works. beyond that it's a bur less bei gue. >> here's the thing, it isn't their house. it's our house. it's the people's house. the white house belongs to the american people and the press are our representatives as i recently learned the mckinley administration invited them to be indoors. but they're still in the people's house. >> well, i understand that, you know, fill low sophicically. i've never bought the fact that we represent the american people. that's a little grandiose for us. it is their press room. they can set rules and we can disobey them. that's the way it's supposed to work. they set rules. they can set rules about what information we can have an

tom hanks returning to play woody told the bbc, the emotional range of the movies has become more and more deep and profound and affecting. like a true friend, tim allen who is the voice of buzz lightyear, backs up his pal hanks and told "e.t." in canada that the end is so emotional he couldn't even get through the last scene. get ready, guys. >> rob's already got the pocket square out. >> he found the pocket square. >> don't give it to her. you would accuse her of stealing it too. >> any excuse to buy more hankies. >> we're there for you to infinity and bz. thank you, buzz. >> dad joke. >> exactly. >> alert. >>> speaking of whit and the dad jokes, now to the story of a house named brady, which apparently whit used to live -- >> i lived right around the corner from this house. yeah. >> you know how the song goes. well, we've got an update on the home made famous by the hit '70s tv show "the brady bunch." hgtv announced a new series called "a very brady renovation" and the kids are all grown up along with gma's lara spencer who also stars on "flea market flip" as well as a bunch of oth