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Right now, ladies and gentlemen,
it's showtime!

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What's up?

♪ Pete Davidson ♪

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you.

Okay.

Very, very cool.
I need that more than you know.

Hey, everyone. We are here tonight
to induct some of the greatest stand-ups

of all time into a place of honor
we're calling The Hall.

Yes.

So welcome to the first ever
Stand-Up Comedy Hall of Fame

Introduction Ceremony.
I am Pete Davidson.

Yes.

The guy who took the special
out of comedy special.

So we're gonna kick off this event
honoring comics who passed away

and I'm pretty sure it's because they're
betting, like, I might not be alive

by the time this airs.

Trust me, I think I'm a weird choice
to intro a Stand-Up Hall of Fame too.

In the last few years,
I've been onstage less than

the babies inside Ali Wong.

Tonight, we are honoring true legends.

Like Joan Rivers, who sparked... yeah.

Yeah.

It sparked a very fierce debate at Netflix
about which face we were going to use

for her picture.

Well...

we landed on that one.

Robin Williams, who is the-- yeah.

The GOAT.

He's also the literal opposite of me
in energy, talent, and body hair.

George Carlin.

The soothing-- yes.

George Carlin.

The soothing voice of the conductor
on Thomas the Tank Engine.

And the guy who taught you
the word cocksucker.

And of course, Richard Pryor.

Right?

Richard Pryor, he redefined comedy
despite tragically giving Chevy Chase

the confidence to say the N word.

It's a real thing. Google that.

The class tonight is very special.

The Hall did their research in picking
the four nominees, okay?

They didn't just select comedians
that were young and trendy,

in hopes of boosting viewership.

For some reason, they think I'll do that.

Our four inductees tonight were all
legitimately voted in

by a board of agents, club owners,
managers, and other influential members

of the comedy community.

Which is a long-winded way of saying Jews.

It's going to be a really fun night,
seriously.

We've got Mix Master Mike
from The Beastie Boys deejaying.

Fucking sick.

Super tight.

And lots of great alive comedians
to talk about the dead ones.

Like we got Mulaney, Chappelle,
and Handler, yeah.

You could only see together these people
in a really nice theater,

or an even nicer rehab.

The Hall is going to be a part
of the National Comedy Center

in Jamestown, New York.

Yeah, that's a real place.

But tonight, thank God,
is not about me.

It's about these legends that are finally
getting the respect they deserve

on the same streaming platform
that airs Is it Cake?

So let's enjoy a healthy mix
of laughter and crying.

Like me when I masturbate.

And now, come on, I had to have a few
little hey... zingers in there.

Want to know something really funny?
I... I couldn't do...

this is the weirdest sentence
I think I've ever said.

I couldn't put makeup on for this
because I got a spray tan.

Which I think is the weirdest thing
I've ever said.

Ever. And I asked my--
I'd never gotten a spray tan before,

I asked my boy, I was like...

"Do I do my dick and ass?"

Like, I don't know what
I'm supposed to do.

Do I get one of those Borat fucking
Speedos? I had no idea.

And my boy was like,

"No, leave it white.
More impressive that way."

And now, it's my honor to introduce
my friend, Jon Stewart, okay?

Jon Stewart...

was recently honored
with the Mark Twain award.

And is such a consummate performer,
he's equally excited to be doing this.

Jon Stewart, everyone!

♪ Jon... ♪

Ho!

♪ Jon, Jon Stewart ♪

♪ Jon Stewart ♪

♪ Jon, Jon, Jon ♪

Pete Davidson!

♪ Jon, Jon Stewart
Jon, Jon Stewart ♪

-♪ Jon, Jon Stewart ♪
-Thanks for being here!

Thanks to Pete Davidson.
You know, there are not a lot of comics

who can come right from a duck blind
to the show.

And still kill.

I'm here to induct someone
that I have great respect for.

I had the pleasure of knowing
for a little bit.

Mr. George Carlin.

[applause]

Let us begin.

Shit.

Piss.

Fuck.

[crowd cheers]

Sorry, scroll up.

Cunt.

[small cheer from crowd]

You don't hear enough applause for that.

Cocksucker.

[crowd cheers]

I see where the crowd's at.

Motherfucker.

[crowd cheers loudly]

You're going to love the last one.

Tits.

[crowd cheers]

Piss has got some work to do.

Cunt and tits are killing it.

1972, George Carlin uttered
the seven words

you cannot say on television.

Shit, piss, cunt, fuck, cocksucker,
motherfucker, and tits.

I was nine.

And I fell in love.

I didn't know any of it, what it meant,
but the tits bit...

cheese tits.

It was then that George Carlin
established himself

as a counter-culture hero.

But it wasn't just about saying the words.
He had a point to it.

It was the absurdity
that these seven words

carried power when they were just words.

They weren't deeds. They weren't thoughts.

They weren't bad intentions.
They were just words.

George Carlin was arrested.
Lenny Bruce was arrested.

They were sued. They were taken to court.
They were brought in...

on charges for saying words.

Ladies and gentlemen,
that was 50 years ago.

Today, those would be the titles
of the next seven Netflix shows.

That was his moment.

You know, we're a fortunate group.

Comedians.

Even more rare is when a comedian
has a moment

in the culture

when the times somehow meet the talent.

And there's an alchemy
that creates greatness.

That was George Carlin in the 1970s.

He was everything!

But even more rare, almost unheard of,

is a comedian who gives up
making a living on the road

to try and become a legend of the time.

And that's where George Carlin's courage
and bravery,

and not enough is said about that.

This cat started in the 1960s
wearing the sharkskin suit.

And the thin tie,
and going on Merv Griffin.

And doing the impressions.
And he was making a living.

His wife, Brenda.
His young daughter, Kelly.

He bought a house. They were making it.

And he was empty.

He wasn't himself.
He wasn't actualized as an artist.

And so he fucking threw it all away.

The idea that you would give up
the dream of making a living

and supporting your family--
they put their house in escrow.

Because he felt he wasn't being himself.
He grew a beard, he grew out his hair.

And he threw on some jeans.

And he started doing bits about
Muhammad Ali getting thrown

to the wolves

for not allowing himself to be drafted
into Vietnam.

And the bit was basically...
Muhammad Ali beats people up

for a living. And what he said was,

"I'll beat people up,
but I don't wanna kill them."

And the government said...

"If you're not gonna kill them,

we're not gonna let you
beat them up."

He didn't give a shit.
He just went out there.

He was an artist.

[crowd cheers]

I was fortunate enough in the '90s

to become friendly with George.

I finally got a chance to go out and spend
some time with him out in Los Angeles.

I was going to interview him
for a special.

He was celebrating 40 years in comedy.

We were doing it in Aspen, Colorado.

Because generally, the people that produce
comedy shows have the wisdom

to take a guy
whose had four heart attacks,

and have him perform
where there's very little oxygen.

That's why I don't do the
"HBO Is A Joke Festival."

I do the Netflix Is A Joke Special.

[applause]

Look at you people.

Displaying brand loyalty.
That's very exciting.

[Jon laughs]

You know, in his later years,
everybody said Carlin got real dark.

You know, he cheered for the demise
of the world. That he became nihilistic.

But it wasn't that at all.
It was disappointment.

I'd never been with somebody
who had such empathy

for the human condition.

And I think his material in later years
was just a reflection of the fact that

he was fucking truly heartbroken

about what we were doing to each other.
And what we were doing to ourselves.

But the interesting thing to me was,

for a counterculture hero
like George Carlin,

he really was a blue collar worker.

He'd go to his office at 9:00 a.m.,
and he'd sit and write.

I mean, I've never met a person

who smoked that much pot

and worked that hard.

He would write his jokes...

and then, he would get out the weed,
or as he would say to me

when I was sitting in his office,
"It's punch-up time."

George Carlin died in 2008.

2006 or 2007, Twitter was born.

If you go on Twitter,
every now and again,

George Carlin is trending.

On a platform that he really didn't have
any idea what it was.

But he'll just pop up randomly
when weird shit goes down in the world.

Because as a culture, we miss his voice.

And that, for a comedian,

is the greatest honor you can give.

[applause]

We miss him.

We miss his voice.

We want to know what he would think.

Comedy's ephemeral, man.
Almost nobody survives their moment.

He survived five decades

as a trenchant observer, an analyst,
an absurdist, and a comedian.

And a friend, and a father,
and a husband.

And a humanitarian.

He was incredible.

And I can't tell you how often
I miss him.

And how much I think about him,
and how grateful I was for...

even the little time that we had
to spend together.

Ladies and gentlemen, George Carlin.

[applause]

[Carlin] George Carlin.

And George Carlin.

I used to be this guy.

Or maybe this guy used to be me.

I don't know. We were each other
at one time.

We have more ways to describe dirty words
than we actually have dirty words.

That seems a little strange to me.

It seems to indicate that somebody
was awfully interested in these words.

They kept referring to them.
They called them bad words, dirty.

Filthy. Foul. Vile. Vulgar.

Coarse.

In poor taste. Unseemly.

Street talk. Gutter talk.
Locker room language. Barracks talk.

Bawdy. Naughty. Saucy. Raunchy.

Rude. Crude. Lewd. Lascivious.
Indecent. Profane. Obscene.

Blue. Off color.

Risqué.

Suggestive.

Cursing. Cussing. Swearing.

All I could think of was
shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker,

motherfucker, and tits!

[crowd cheers]

"Take a shit" is another one.

Take a shit?

You don't take a shit, you leave a shit.

That's the whole idea!

To leave it!

Germs. Where did this sudden fear
of germs come from in this country?

Have you noticed this?

The media constantly running stories
about all the latest infections.

Salmonella, E. Coli, Hantavirus,
Bird Flu.

And Americans, they panic easily,
so now, everybody's running around

scrubbing this and spraying that.

And overcooking their food.
Repeatedly washing their hands

trying to avoid all contact with germs.

It's ridiculous, and it goes
to ridiculous lengths.

In prisons, before they give you
a lethal injection,

they swab your arm with alcohol.

Did you ever belch, and almost puke?

I never fucked a ten.

Never fucked a ten!

But one night, I fucked five two's.

Yeah.

Here's something you never hear a man say,

"Stop sucking my dick
or I'll call the police."

They wonder why there's no blue food.

Haven't we gone a little overboard
with these colored ribbons

for different causes?

Every cause has its own
colored ribbon now.

Red for AIDS. Blue for child abuse.
Pink for breast cancer.

Green for the rainforest.
Purple for urban violence.

I got a brown one. Know what it means?
Eat shit, motherfucker!

Eat shit, motherfucker!

But in the bullshit department,
in the bullshit department,

a businessman can't hold a candle
to a clergyman.

'Cause I got to tell you the truth, folks.
I got to tell you the truth.

When it comes to bullshit,

big time, major league bullshit,
you have to stand in awe,

in awe of the all-time champion
of false promises

and exaggerated claims, religion.
No contest.

No contest.

Religion. Religion easily has

the greatest bullshit story ever told.

Think about it.
Religion has actually convinced people

that there's an invisible man

living in the sky.

Who watches everything you do,
every minute of every day.

And the invisible man has a special list
of ten things he does not want you to do.

And if you do any of these ten things,
he has a special place

full of fire, and smoke, and burning,
and torture, and anguish,

where he will send you to live,
and suffer, and burn, and choke,

and scream, and cry forever and ever
till the end of time.

But he loves you.

He loves you.

He loves you, and he needs money!

He always needs money!

He's all powerful, all perfect,
all knowing, and all wise,

somehow, just can't handle money.

Religion takes in billions of dollars.
They pay no taxes.

And they always need a little more.

Now, you talk
about a good bullshit story.

Holy shit.

But I would like to bring you up to date
on the "Comedians Health Sweepstakes."

As it stands right now,
I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks

two to one.

I'm ahead. I am ahead.

That's right. Now...

However, Richard still leads me
one to nothing on burning yourself up.

Well, the way it happened was,
first Richard had a heart attack.

Then, I had a heart attack.

Then, Richard burned himself up.

Then, I said, fuck that,
I'm going to have another heart attack.

Why? Why?

Why? Why? Why is it that most of the
people who are against abortion

are people you wouldn't want to fuck
in the first place?

I'm a modern man.
A man for the millennium.

Digital and smoke-free.

A diversified, multicultural,
postmodern deconstructionist

politically, anatomically,
and ecologically incorrect.

I got a personal trainer,
a personal shopper, a personal assistant,

and a personal agenda.

You can't shut me up.
You can't dumb me down.

Because I'm tireless,
and I'm wireless.

I'm an alpha male on beta-blockers.

I'm a nonbeliever, and an overachiever.
Laid back, but fashion forward.

Upfront, down home, low rent,
high maintenance.

Super-sized, long-lasting,
high-definition, fast-acting,

oven-ready, and built to last.

I'm a hands-on, footloose,
knee-jerk head case.

Prematurely post-traumatic,
and I have a love child

who sends me hate mail.

A fully equipped, factory authorized,
hospital tested, clinically proven,

scientifically formulated medical miracle.

I've been prewashed, precooked,
preheated, prescreened, preapproved,

prepackaged, postdated, freeze dried,
double wrapped, vacuum packed,

and I have an unlimited
broadband capacity.

[applause]

I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal.
Lean and mean.

Cocked, locked, and ready to rock.
Rough, tough, and hard to bluff.

I take it slow. I go with the flow.
I ride with the tide.

I got glide in my stride.

Driving and moving,
sailing and spinning, jiving and grooving,

whaling and winning.
I don't snooze, so I don't lose.

I keep the pedal to the metal,
and the rubber on the road.

I party hearty,
and lunchtime is crunch time.

I'm hanging in, there ain't no doubt.
And I'm hanging tough, over and out.

[applause]

[applause]

It's my privilege to induct George Carlin
into The Hall.

♪♪

And now, ladies and gentlemen,
I want to introduce our next...

I don't know what you call the people
that induct better people into The Hall.

The next one of me.

He's one of my favorite comedians
and people.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Mulaney.

-[DJ scratching]
-[applause]

♪ John Mulaney ♪

♪ John Mulaney ♪

♪ John Mulaney ♪

Hey!

- ♪ John ♪
-Hello.

♪ John Mulaney ♪

Thank you, Jon. Hello, everyone.
My name's John Mulaney.

[crowd cheers]

It's a pleasure to be here.

Robin Williams.

His career spanned about 38 years.

But creatively, he packed in
a few centuries.

Here's what, to me,
separates Robin Williams

from every other comedian.

There is no footage of Robin Williams
phoning it in.

There exists no recorded moment
when he wasn't giving his all.

Whether he was onstage
at the Holy City Zoo,

at the Comedy Store,

at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York.

Whether he was onstage co-hosting
Comic Relief for years and years.

Making hundreds of millions of dollars
for medical care for the homeless.

No matter what stage he was on,
yes, give it up for that.

[applause]

No matter what stage he was on,
he seemed to be immersing himself

completely in the performance,
and he seemed to love it totally.

Robin Williams was also
in more good movies

than any human being
should be allowed to be in.

I watched Good Morning, Vietnam
a couple months ago.

And go back and watch that movie.
Watch the first classroom scene

in that movie when Robin
is teaching English

to the people in Saigon.

I've never seen a performance
where someone is funnier,

and also laughing that genuinely
with people in a scene.

It feels like you're watching
this brilliant rehearsal.

He's great even in mediocre movies.

Remember that movie Nine Months
with Hugh Grant?

Whatever. It's fine. It's all right.
It's not great. It's not great.

But they know that.
Robin Williams...

is in it for 15 minutes.

And he's funnier than most people's
entire body of work.

He plays a Russian OB-GYN.

In one scene, who used to be
the head of obstetrics

at a hospital in St. Petersburg
for animals.

And he specialized in rats and monkeys.

And he says to Hugh Grant
and Julianne Moore, he goes,

"After awhile, I figured you've seen
one rat ass, you've seen them all."

But then, that's a very funny part,
but then he goes,

he says this with such dignity.

Such quiet understatement.
He goes, "And last month I received

my new license.
And now, I can deliver human babies."

If you want to see an actor
simultaneously elevate

what a comedic performance
could be emotionally,

and what an emotional performance
could be comedically,

watch Robin Williams
in a movie called The Fisher King.

It is the best work on film
any comic actor has ever done.

Here's an idea that I hear a lot.

Where people like to theorize
that comedy all comes from a place

of pain, and sadness.

And people like to talk about comedians
as if we do what we do

because of some inner darkness.

And this is especially thrown around
when discussing Robin Williams.

And with all due respect,
fuck off with that shit.

Like...

have a little respect
for a brilliant artist

who was just more talented
than you.

That's what was happening.

Making people laugh is incredibly fun.

The art form of comedy
is a joy to perform.

And being a comedian
is not a psychiatric condition.

Are many of us also very fucked up,
myself included?

Yes! But... whatever.

You know, there are depressed people
who don't even have the decency

to be great comedians.

Why don't you pick on them
for a change?

I was talking to Robin's daughter, Zelda,
about this.

She wrote something back to me
that I wanted to read tonight.

If you don't mind.

This is from Robin's daughter, Zelda.

Talking about this idea, she said,

"This is just one person's perception
of a much more complex man.

But in my eyes,
so much of what Dad wanted to do

was to brighten people's lives.

Especially those he thought
may need it the most.

In that way, I think his drive
had much less to do with his own sadness,

and much more to do
with lifting the world's.

He'd go to homeless shelters
and sit alone with them for hours.

He rode in triathlons
for challenged athletes foundations.

And he would make all the other folks
laugh on the long journey.

He went to hospitals.
He went to army bases.

To anywhere laughter was needed.

He loved knowing that
at the darkest moments,

laughter really is the most incredible
salve for the soul.

And it remains, in my eyes,
one of the hardest, most precious gifts

a human can give another.

My dad truly was happiest
when he was making others happy.

Always."

Well...

[applause]

And what more could you say
about a comedian or a person?

Ladies and gentlemen, Robin Williams.

[applause]

Is there someone here tonight that feels
the need to be healed by comedy?

Is there anyone here?

Look!

The moon, like a testicle,
hangs low in the sky.

What sound or noise do you love?

[fart noise]

[laughter]

Is there a deaf signer here?

Oh, how cool is that?

Blow me.

Thank you.

I guess I should talk for a moment
about the very serious subject of...

schizophrenia. No, he doesn't.
Shut up, let him talk!

My son is three years old.
It's an amazing time.

It's like big head, little tiny body.

It's an outrageous time when they ask you
about everything. It's like...

"Why is the sky blue?"
"Well, because of the atmosphere."

"Why is there atmosphere?"
"Well, because we need to breathe."

"Why do we breathe?"
"Why the fuck do you want to know?"

I always have this dream.

I have this dream, well,
like I guess every father.

You have a dream that maybe one day,

one day it'll be my son
accepting the Nobel prize.

I also have another dream
where it's my son going,

"You want fries with this?"

I was on this German talk show,
this woman said to me,

she said, "Mr. Williams,
why do you think there's not so much

comedy in Germany?"

I said, "Did you ever think
you killed all the funny people?"

But if you're Irish,
you'll kick my ass,

but then you'll fucking
sing about it afterwards.

♪ Oh, the night you said
My wife was fat ♪

♪ I knocked you down
And shit in your hat ♪

♪ Away the time we go with it
Coming away for air ♪

♪ Moving... ♪

Here's my idea for a fucking sport.

I knock a ball in a gopher hole.

"Oh, you mean like pool."
Fuck off, pool.

Not with a straight stick.
With a little fucked-up stick.

I whack the ball.
It goes in a gopher hole.

"You mean like croquet."
Fuck croquet!

I put the hole hundreds of yards away.

Fuck off, yeah.

Whacking away, and each time you miss,

you feel like you're going
to have a stroke. [chuckles]

Fuck! That's what we'll call it!

A stroke. Because every time you miss,
you feel like you're going to fucking die.

I want the guy who does Mexican soccer
to do golf one time.

The ball is rolling.
The ball is going to the...

Hole!

Girls, if you want to get
that lovely tattoo of the sunrise

rising out of your ass crack,
gorgeous when you're 20.

But when you're 50, it's an octopus
chasing a fucking starfish.

So, no.

[shouts]

Fuck!

Peeing!

And then, you realize...

that God gave you a penis
and a brain.

And only enough blood to run one
at a time.

[imitating John Wayne] That's right,
Corky. It's time to saddle up.

We're heading south of the border.

You got to please Missy.

[normal voice] I have one question
for the ladies.

Do we look like this?

[laughter and applause]

[raucous laughter]

Are you almost there?

No, no, no. I will finish.

No, no. No, I love you.

I love you.

I will finish.

Look, I said I can take it.
I just can't feel my face.

No, who's your daddy?

I love you. I love you.

I'll finish. I'll finish.

I'll finish...

[snores]

Good night!

[applause]

Yep.

It is an honor to induct Robin Williams
into The Hall. Yes.

♪♪

And this is a real delight
to bring up your next presenter.

A comedian that I love watching
and a person that I love running into,

who I haven't been able to see
in some time.

Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome the very funny

and wonderful Miss Chelsea Handler.

♪Chel Chel Chelsea
Chel Chel Chelsea ♪

♪ Chel Chel Chel Chelsea ♪

-♪ Chelsea ♪
-Yeah!

♪ Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea.
Chel, Chelsea ♪

- ♪ Chelsea ♪
-Hi, everybody!

-♪ Handler ♪
-Hi!

[applause]

Thank you so much. Thank you.

I'm here to talk about Mrs. Joan Rivers.

[applause]

The first time I met Joan Rivers
we were both on E.

And not the fun kind.

I was too young, too confident,
and too arrogant

to believe anyone had a hand
in my success but myself.

Now, I know that
for every success I've had,

it was because someone came before me
who was bolder, and braver,

and good luck finding someone as bold
and as brave as Joan Rivers.

[applause]

She once said, "Stevie Wonder,
that poor son of a bitch.

Who's going to tell him he's wearing
a macramé plant holder on his head?"

And of course, there were the classics.

She also said, "Elizabeth Taylor
is so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin."

So I am humbled
to stand up here tonight

and pay homage to her life,
and to her work.

Joan was born in 1933
as Joan Alexandra Molinsky.

She was born in Brooklyn, New York.
She started out as many of us did,

working odd jobs to make ends meet.

She was a tour guide
at Rockefeller Center.

She worked as a proofreader
at a New York ad agency.

And she also worked for a brief time
as a fashion consultant,

a skill that would come in handy
decades later

when she formed the Fashion Police
with her daughter, Melissa.

They invented eye rolls
and celebrity smackdowns

decades before Jada and Will.

Joan soon found her home onstage
making people laugh.

Laughing at celebrities,
laughing at politics,

and mostly laughing at herself.

She launched her stand-up career
at clubs in Greenwich Village.

Sharing bills with the likes
of George Carlin and Richard Pryor.

Joan's routine at the time closed
with the punchline

"I'm Joan Rivers, and I put out."

I think that's a pretty strong opener
as well.

And then, after almost a decade
of struggling in dingy clubs,

Joan became an overnight sensation.
After being rejected multiple times,

she was booked on The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson.

[applause]

It was February 17th, 1965.
And that night changed everything.

Johnny Carson sat there wiping tears
of laughter from his cheeks,

and he said, "God, you're funny.
You're going to be a star."

And he was right.

[applause]

She was in command,
and Johnny, the King of Late Night,

was clearly in awe.

She was showing us that you could enter
the boy's club,

and not only leave them laughing,
but if you were funny enough,

you could dominate them.

[cheers and applause]

Joan played Carnegie Hall.
She won a Grammy. She won an Emmy.

She earned a Tony nomination.
She wrote 12 best-selling books.

She redefined the red carpet
as we know it today.

And most impressively,
she wasn't afraid to be herself.

Joan found her own acerbic
and trailblazing voice

at a time when women did not speak out.

And when a lot of people get famous,
they become safer.

And more guarded.

Because suddenly,
there's too much to lose.

But not Joan.
The more successful she became,

the louder, and the more unapologetic
she was.

She pushed boundaries,
and she put everything on the line

for a laugh.

She was criticized her whole life

for being too abrasive, too gossipy,
too personal.

But there was always something deeper
under the surface of her jokes.

She refused to apologize for anything,
saying, "Part of my act

is meant to shake you up.

It looks like I'm being funny,
but I'm reminding you of other things.

Life is tough, darling.
Life is hard.

And we better laugh at everything,

otherwise we're going straight
down the tube."

[applause]

And she didn't just love
making people laugh.

She loved people
who made other people laugh.

She once said, "If one more female
comedian comes up to me and says,

'You opened the doors for me,'
I want to say 'Fuck you.

I'm still opening the doors for you.'"

[cheers and applause]

And she still is.

Not even her death in 2014
could stop her,

thanks to her legacy,
she is still opening doors

for women from some big red carpet
in the sky.

Ladies and gentlemen, Joan Rivers!

[applause]

This business, it's all about
casting couches.

I just want you to know,
my name is Joan Rivers,

and I put out.

My wedding night was a disaster
because I have zero-zero.

My husband said,
"Let me help you with the buttons."

And I said...

[laughter]

I said, "I'm naked!"

When you're not wanted,
you know from the beginning.

All I ever heard growing up is,

"Why can't you be like
your cousin Sheila?

Why can't you be like
your cousin Sheila?"

Sheila had died at birth.
Oh, yes!

First wives were too good.
We worry, the hair grows gray.

Husband has a heart condition,
we're upset.

We pawn our rings to buy him a pacemaker.
Anything, right?

Second wife, the husband's got
a heart condition,

she's walking behind him going,
"Boo!"

That's the difference.

That's the difference!

Also cremated my mother-in-law.

And it was, oh, to cremate
your mother-in-law,

you don't know.
You should never know this.

I was flying,
and I took the plane directly,

Montreal, London,
London, Montreal.

I'm flying back, I thought,
I should have waited till she was dead.

And I was just...

Kissing on the first date,
that wasn't allowed.

-[Joan] Are you kidding?
-That secluded?

-Edgar and I still haven't started.
-[Carson] I didn't know that.

If my husband didn't toss and turn in
his sleep, I wouldn't have had the kids.

[laughter and applause]

You know, right?

I can come home from work
with lipstick on my collar,

he couldn't care less.

I pretend I had an affair.
You want to talk about getting him crazy?

I thought, "This will get him insane."
Right?

We're lying in bed,
I'm pretending I'm talking in my sleep,

and I'm saying things like,
"No, Tim, it's not right!"

"No, Tim, it's not right.
My God, it's just not right."

Next morning, my husband left me a note:
"Tell Tim it's all right."

We all go through the same thing at 40,
you begin to lose your eyesight.

I don't care who you are.
You can't read the birthday card.

At 50, the memory starts to go.
"Let's go see that movie.

You know the one.
You know what I'm getting..."

At 60, you start to fart.
You just fart, fart, fart, fart, fart.

Yes. And at 70,
you lose your sense of smell.

So between 60 and 70,
it is a terrible time.

Oh!

[Joan] Everyone watched the Carson Show.

And when Carson said to me,
"You're going to be a star,"

my life changed.

I'm very sentimental.
Look at the dedication in the book.

-[Carson] I know, it's very sweet of you.
-Yeah.

It was very sweet of you.

-You talk about sentiment...
-You didn't have to do that.

It's to...

It says, talks about your baby.
Then you have a dedication.

-Can I read it?
-[Joan] Sure.

-It says, "To Edgar," your husband.
-[Joan] Had to do that.

"Who made this book happen.
Who made this book happen.

To Johnny Carson,
who made it all happen."

That's very sweet of you. That's nice.

[Joan] Fox came and offered me
my own show.

And Edgar would be the producer.

Of course we said yes.

After 20 years on The Tonight Show,

the first person I called
was Johnny Carson.

He slammed the phone down.
Called him again, slammed it down again.

And never spoke to me again. Ever.

Monica Lewinsky, is she here?

Look under your chairs.
Monica, my idol!

This girl has seven million dollars

from having oral sex
with the President of the United States.

Do you understand what I'm telling you,
Canada?

Seven million dollars!

Doesn't that upset you?

If I could do it again...

If I could do it again,
I would say to my daughter,

when she was 16, "Melissa,
come in the den, bring a banana.

Get on your knees.
Mama wants to talk to you."

Sometimes, I say to them, "Staff!"

"I'm lonely.

Who's going to fuck me tonight, staff?"

Oh, I'm staring at you.

Look at the person.
Don't look at me.

Look at the person.
This is not fucking hard.

Look at the person.

We're going to say it three times.
This is what life is about.

One, I'm so glad.
Come on, guys.

I'm so glad.

I'm so glad.

I'm so glad... I'm not you.

Thank you and good night!
A pleasure working with you.

That's the funniest woman
in the world.

And we'll be back after this message.

[Joan] But there's an importance for me
for this type of event for comedy

because I'm always left out of it.

So for me, this is nice to be included.
Because I'm usually not included.

[cheering and applauding]

Well, Joan, you might have put out,
but tonight we're going to put you in.

It is my great honor to induct you
into The Hall.

♪♪

And it's my pleasure to introduce
the roast master himself,

a man who is a good friend
to every comedian

that he's ever met.

Please welcome Jeff Ross.

♪♪

♪ The roast master ♪

♪ The roast, the roast master ♪

How about a hand for Chelsea, everybody.

♪ Jeff Ross
Jeff Jeff Ross ♪

Whoo! Hello, comedy world!
How are you doing?

[crowd cheers]

I am here to present tonight's
in memoriam segment.

Because recently, comedy has lost
Norm Macdonald,

Louie Anderson, Bob Saget,

Gilbert Gottfried, and Will Smith.

Any Gilbert Gottfried fans here tonight?

[crowd cheers]

I loved Gilbert.

I did get to see Gilbert in the hospital
right before he passed away.

I'm glad I got the chance to thank him
for being my pal.

And I held his hand,
and I said goodbye.

It was hard for the doctors
to pronounce an exact time of death.

Because Gilbert's eyes were always
kind of closed.

I was doing a show for Netflix
where I roast historical figures.

And I called Gilbert's agent,
and I said, "I need Gilbert to come out

to LA and play Adolf Hitler."

And his agent said, "No way.
It's not appropriate.

Gilbert's first time on Netflix
is not going to be playing Adolf Hitler."

So I called Gil myself, and I said,

"Gilbert, I need someone
to play Adolf Hit--"

And he went, "Ler?

I'll do it!"

And he flew out.
We sent him into wardrobe.

And Gilbert came to rehearsal
with a lederhosen,

and a Hitler mustache,
and a swastika armband.

Then, we broke for lunch,

and Gilbert was still wearing
the swastika armband.

And we did the show.

We went to the after-party,
and I couldn't get him

to take the swastika armband off.

I think he wore it on the plane home
the next day.

But he was so funny that night.
And let me tell you something.

Gilbert Gottfried was the best
Hitler ever.

Mel Brooks once said that comedy
is revenge through ridicule.

What better way to mock the Nazis
then have their führer played by

the loudest, most obnoxious Jew
in history.

So... Heil Gilbert!

Any Louie Anderson fans here?

[crowd cheers]

What an original voice in comedy.

Louie Anderson turned his childhood
pain into concert tours,

TV specials, and animated shows.
And he made it all hilarious.

Louie gave us a way in to look,
and laugh at our own childhoods.

He was also a recent Emmy winner,
a best-selling author,

a hit game show host,

and a spokesman for Land-O-Lakes butter.

Both officially and unofficially.

The first time I met Louie Anderson,
we were both standing at adjoining urinals

in a men's room at a comedy club
in New York.

I was 24-year-old open micer,

and I'm pretty sure Louie
propositioned me.

And I'm not going to spill secrets here,
but let's just say,

I've been a huge fan ever since.

We're so lucky Louie shared his life
with us.

Life without Lilly won't be the same.

Long live Lilly Anderson.

[applause]

I know we got some Norm Macdonald fans
here tonight.

[crowd cheers]

Norm had so many jokes
that I think about all the time.

Whenever daylight savings time
rolled around,

Norm would always say,
"I give it six months."

Norm got fired from Saturday Night Live
for making too many jokes

about O.J. Simpson.

But comedians are supposed
to tell the truth

no matter what the consequences.

And that's what Norm did.

I just wish he'd told us the truth
about his health.

We all would have been able to tell him
how much we loved him.

But that wasn't Norm's way.

He was always one step ahead of us
right up until the end.

I'm going to miss that guy.

Where are my Bob Saget fans?

[crowd cheers]

Bob was like my brother.

But he was America's dad.

Like Bill Cosby.

Except Bob put people to sleep
the old-fashioned way.

By talking about his charity work.

Bob's wife, John Stamos,
told me about how...

how fans would stop Bob
all the time.

They'd want to hug him.

They'd get emotional,
and they'd say things to Bob like,

"I didn't... I grew up without a dad,
and your character on Full House,

Danny Tanner, he was like my dad,
so thank you."

And in his honor,
please donate if you can

to the Scleroderma Research Foundation.

A cause that meant so much to Bob.

Bob was so strong, and so supportive
when life got hard.

I hope everyone here
has a friend like Bob.

He was this gigantic TV star,
but he lived his life like a comedian.

He even died like a comic
on the road, alone, in a hotel room.

He slipped and hit his head.

Which is kind of poetic for a guy
who hosted America's Funniest Home Videos.

If Bob were here, he'd be like,
"Can I use that? That's good."

[crowd cheers]

Thanks.

[applause]

These four future Hall of Famers
may be gone,

but their laughs live on.

So let's all give it up one last time
for Gilbert, Louie, Norm, and Bob.

[cheers and applause]

Whoo!

And now, it is my great honor
to welcome "The Closer,"

Dave Chappelle!

♪♪

♪ The Closer ♪

♪ The... The Closer ♪

♪ The Closer
Dave Dave Dave Chappelle ♪

♪ Dave Dave Chappelle ♪

♪ Dave Dave Dave ♪

♪ Dave Dave Chappelle ♪

♪ Dave Dave Chappelle ♪

Oh, boy.

Thanks for being here.

I don't know how you get to be
in this audience,

but you lucky motherfuckers.

-[man 1] Dave!
-[man 2] We love you, Dave!

Hey, thanks, buddy.

I love you too, in a very impersonal,
heterosexual kind of way.

I got a heavy lift tonight because
it's my honor to get to...

to induct the GOAT.

[cheers and applause]

Richard Pryor.

Richard Pryor.

[cheers and applause]

The greatest stand-up comedian
that ever lived.

Not to make it personal,
but comedians love Richard Pryor.

There's a story that we always revel in
of him walking off stage

in Las Vegas in the middle of a show.

And when he did it,

whoever promoted the show told him
he'd never work in Vegas again.

And he said, "I don't care."

He said, "If you said I'd never fuck
in Vegas again, I'd be worried."

Abruptly, he left show business
and went into the unknown

of what his future might be.
And it took him to San Francisco.

And with the help of Paul Mooney,
and some other people,

he started doing all-Black rooms,
and slowly but surely,

he became the Richard Pryor
that we've come to love.

It wasn't just Black rooms that he was
doing that made that transformation.

It was cocaine.

Sometimes, I'll see a comedian
have a great joke, and I'll say,

"Man, I wish I wrote that joke."

But the joke will be
about something personal.

I know that that person lived
through something very difficult

to be able to say something that funny
about their own life.

Richard Pryor was like that.

When I was 19, I remember,

I did an event that he attended
at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

And I came in as he was coming in.

They were wheeling him
in a wheelchair.

I was standing behind him.
I didn't say one word to him.

But I looked behind his ear.

And I could see the scars
from when he burnt himself.

And it made me want to cry.

Not long after that,
I opened for him.

At Newark Symphony Hall.

I couldn't believe that he was a legend
doing a gig in Newark.

I met him backstage.

He remembered my name,
shook my hand.

And he came out to the eeriest song.
It was a song called "I'm Calling You."

And he did about 15 minutes.

And he stopped talking.

And he told the crowd, "I'm sorry.
I just can't do this tonight."

And you could have heard a pin drop
in that room.

And a guy in the back stood up

and screamed out like he wanted to fight.
He said, "I love you, Richard!"

The whole crowd went crazy.

I mean, this was sincerely the longest
ovation I've ever seen

to this day in comedy.
And I was a young man,

but I understood that I was witnessing
actual love.

That it didn't matter if he did good or
bad, they just wanted to be around him

one more time.

And they sent him off lovely.
And said a great goodbye.

And the moment that I saw that,
it informed the rest of my career.

I knew that's exactly what I wanted
for my life.

And that's exactly how I want
my career to end.

Well, maybe not exactly.

Not in Newark.

Paul Mooney was a big influence
on me as well.

And...

[cheers and applause]

And he used to regale me
with stories of Richard.

And the way he talked about Richard
was like he was in the next room.

You know what I mean?
It was something very familiar

and comforting hearing a guy
talk about his friend that way.

I was very lucky
to get to know him too.

I don't want to blather
about my own personal stories, but...

I just want to say that
without Richard Pryor

there would be no,
there would be no Dave Chappelle.

And all you comedians out there
who complain that you can't say anything

nowadays, I would suggest that perhaps,
you have nothing to say.

Because there's a very profound example
of a person

who said anything and everything
he wanted to say

outside of context.

There was only three channels
when that nigga was working.

There's nothing to be afraid of.

If you saw a person be this courageous

at such a high price.
So please, ladies and gentlemen,

make some noise for Richard Pryor.

[cheers and applause]

Now you know, I have read that
you were born in a brothel.

And I figured this is Pryor
putting on an interviewer.

No, I was born in my mother's womb.

[Dick] Well, yes.

And we lived in--
I guess you'd call it a brothel.

-We called it a whorehouse.
-[Dick] Yeah.

Whorehouse or...

-Or--
-But it was home to me!

It was... [laughs]

I remember tricks used to come
through our neighborhood.

That's where I first met white people.

They come down through our neighborhood
to help the economy.

Nice white dudes, though.
Because I could have been a bigot.

You know what I mean?

I could have been prejudiced.

I could have been prejudiced.

I could have been, man,
but I met nice white men.

Come up, "Hello, little boy.
Is your mother home? I'd like a blowjob."

My mother, I met my mother.
She's sitting out there.

I love her. That's my mother.

[applause]

-[interviewer] Is she here?
-Come on, Ma! Don't hide your face!

Get up there!

[interviewer] I didn't know that.

[Pryor] Don't cry, Ma.

My grandmother's the lady
who used to discipline me, right?

You know, beat my ass.

Anyone here remember them switches?

You... right?
You used to have to go get off the tree

yourself, and take them leaves like that.

I see them trees today,
I will kill one of them motherfuckers.

And you get them switches,
and they start cutting wind

on the way home.
You hear, phew, phew.

Make you start crying
before you get in the house.

Phew, phew. Mama!

Phew, phew! I'm sorry, Mama.
I'll never play...

Mama, please! Mama, please!

Please, Mama! Please, Mama!

Ow, please, Mama! Ow, please, Ma!

Are you big in Europe?

What's the matter?

That's a legitimate question.

Gee, he really thinks I'm great.

-Just a moment.
-He thinks I'm funny.

-Just a moment.
-I got the laugh, not you.

-Just a moment.
-What do you mean, just a moment?

Sometimes, pain is funny later on.

You know what I mean?
Like when I was in jail.

I was in jail for income tax evasion.

-When?
-Last year.

-How much time did you get?
-I got enough.

I told the judge, I said,
"I forgot about my taxes."

He said,
"You'll remember next year, nigga."

And when you don't use sensitivity
when you're having sex, right?

Or share some of your soul,
nothing is going to happen.

Because men really get afraid.
Men are really scared in bed with a woman.

You got to have that macho shit working.
It's hard to say, "Did...

Did you, did you...

Did you uh...

Did you cum?

Did you?"

Because men get defensive if a woman says
she didn't cum.

Men get real defensive, right?

They won't take no fault for shit, right?

Men might say anything when they get
scared, right? Men go,

"Look, baby, maybe your pussy dead."

And women always have a great comeback,
right? Women say,

"Well, why don't you give it
mouth to mouth resuscitation?"

[cheers and applause]

-I have sinned.
-[Carson] Oh, no.

-In the past. And many, many--
-Heal!

You're the only white man alive
that's ever touched my head

without being killed.

[Pryor] Ali, man. I got in the ring
one time. Ali, man, is awesome.

The nigga, I was in a benefit with him
just for fun, boxing.

And just to get in the ring
with a nigga, your heart go... [shudders]

No, because something make you say,
I'm in this motherfucking ring and shit.

Does everybody know this is for fun?

The nigga be fucking with you, right?
As soon as you get in the ring,

Ali be talking about...
[mouthing words]

I said, "Wait a minute.
Does this nigga know it's a benefit?

He ain't supposed to hit my ass up
in this motherfucker."

And the nigga's so fast,

you don't see his punches
till they coming back.

That's all you see, right?
And your mind be saying,

"Wait a minute, now.

There was some shit in my face
a minute ago. I know that."

Then the coach say,
"Stick and move! Stick and move!"

And you be scared when you have
your first boxing-- Right? You be doing...

-Have you seen The Exorcist?
-Ah!

And women won't go to the bathroom
outside, right?

Ladies, you won't, will you?

"You want to go to the bathroom
out here, baby?"

"Uh-uh."

"Nope. Too much. Look, no. Uh-uh.

Too many things crawling around
could crawl up there. No.

I'll wait till we get back to the car."

I say, "Bitch, you ain't gonna piss
in the car!

You better drop your drawers
and piss here."

"I gotta go real bad, too.
Okay, I'm going to pull my panties down

a little bit.

Okay? Now, don't you do nothing.
Don't you be funny.

If you see something,
you let me know.

You're not going to do nothing funny,
are you?"

"No, baby. Go ahead.
I ain't gonna do nothing. Go ahead."

"Okay, I'll just pull it down
a little bit."

I like to wait till they get into it,
right?

You go, "Somebody's coming!"

I remember that's where I met
Louie Armstrong.

I walked in his dressing room.
I said, "How you doing, Louie?"

He said, "White folks still in the lead."

Don't go out with the Mafia.
You can't buy them dinner.

The motherfuckers like,

they always like to take entertainers
to dinner.

And they take you to dinner,
and they pick up the check all the time.

Right? And if you get mad,
you say, "Let me buy the check tonight.

Goddamn it, you guys buy me dinner
every night."

"Hey, kid. Let me tell you something.
We're crime.

And crime don't pay."

Anyone here ever had a heart attack?

Them motherfuckers hurt!

I'm not bullshitting, man.
I was walking in the front yard.

I was just walking along,
and something said, "Don't breathe!"

I'm saying, hmm?

"You heard me, motherfucker.
I said don't breathe!"

"Okay, I won't breathe. I won't breathe.
I won't."

"Then shut the fuck up then."
"Okay. I'm sorry. Don't kill me."

"Get on one knee and prove it."
"I won't get up."

"Don't kill me, don't..."
"You thinking about dying now, ain't you?"

"Yeah, I'm thinking about dying."

"You didn't think about it
when you was eating all that pork."

"I wasn't."

I woke up in an ambulance, right?

And it wasn't nothing
but white people staring at me.

I said, "Ain't this a bitch.

I've done died and wound up
in the wrong motherfucking heaven."

Now listen to me. All the people
you ever heard of freebasing,

have you ever heard
of anybody blowing up?

Why me?

Ten million motherfuckers freebase,
I got to blow up.

I want to say y'all gave me
a lot of love when I was...

not feeling well.
And y'all really, I appreciate it.

-Also, y'all did some... also...
-[applause]

Yeah, applaud yourself.

[applause]

Also, y'all did some nasty ass jokes
on my ass too.

Oh, yeah. Y'all didn't think
I saw some of these motherfuckers.

Since you love me so much.

I remember this one.
Strike the match like this.

What's that? Richard Pryor running
down the street.

I was watching TV one night,
and they said I had died.

I was bandaged up and shit.

They said, "Richard Pryor died
five minutes ago."

[muffled mumbling]

Now, what makes me angry
is the fact that

across the board, in my mind,
there's nobody I've ever met

in the business of comedy
who was any more brilliant than me.

And I will never get the recognition
for what I do.

[cheers and applause]

He called that one wrong, didn't he?

In 2016, I did my first Netflix special
in this very room.

It was March 12th,

the anniversary of when
Richard Pryor: Live on Sunset Strip

was released in theaters,
which he shot in this very room.

It was Easter weekend, when people
celebrate Jesus rising from the dead.

And when he shot that special,
he had burnt himself on fire.

It was his first time back
in front of the public

after that terrible incident.

And it was my first time back
in the public

after that nasty spill
I took on television.

It's an honor to be here tonight.

We love you, Richard.

We love you, Richard.

[cheers and applause]

It's my pleasure to induct Richard Pryor
into The Hall.

[applause]

♪♪

Thank you guys very much
for being here.

God bless you and good night.

[cheers and applause]

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