All right, folks,
my next guest tonight is somebody we're really--
Ho, ho, ho, ho!
(audience cheering)
Hey.
(audience cheering)
Look, everybody, it's Santa Claus!
It's Santa Claus!
Come on over, Santa!
(festive music)
How are you?
Hello. Have a seat.
Ho, ho, ho.
Hey Santa, so great to see you, thanks for stopping by.
Well, it's my pleasure.
Yeah.
(audience laughing)
Terrific, so how were your holidays?
Oh, just fine, just fine,
lots of good boys and girls out there.
Yeah.
(audience cheering)
You especially. Yeah.
I'll bet and hey, everything went smoothly on Christmas Eve?
Oh, yes, things went great, went very well.
Rudolph came through once more.
Oh, he sure did, yeah.
I love my presents, yeah.
Well, I'm glad you did.
Yeah.
Well, that's just terrific.
So, Santa, what are you up to now?
What do you do now?
Oh, not much.
Got a little down time now.
Really?
So you don't have to start getting ready for next Christmas?
Not really, I don't really have to get into it
till about March or April.
Everything's computerized now,
so just gonna kick back, relax,
enjoy a little RNR.
(audience laughing)
Little rest and relaxation.
Yeah.
Wow.
So.
So, Yeah.
who you got on tonight?
Oh, we just had Brian Williams on
and Artie Lang is coming out in just a moment.
It'll pick up.
(audience laughing)
Hey,
kind of cold in here, huh? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, we keep the studio a little cold.
It's you know--
I like it cold.
(audience laughing)
I like it cold. Yeah, it's for the lights
and the machinery. Oh, lots of light.
Yeah, yeah. Look at that.
(audience laughing)
So you got writers
or do you come up with all that stuff yourself or?
No, I got writers
and you know, we have like an office is--
You come running down with the bits at showtime?
Yeah and then we, you know, work it out.
Sort of throw this stuff at you and you make the ha, ha.
Yeah, well.
(audience laughing)
I try.
Well, I bet you comedy guys are glad
about the Bush getting into the big old house there
because here you got good comedy fodder there 'cause
Yeah.
he's got, he's not the brightest bulb.
Yeah, yeah. in the whole.
(audience cheering)
But of course Gore, if Gore got in,
that'd be a different angle
and you make the jokes of him,
you'd find the laugh, you would.
Yeah.
(audience laughing)
You know, listen, Santa, I don't want to be rude, but
we have a show to do and we kind of have to keep it moving.
Oh sure, sure. Yeah.
Say no more, Santa's on his way in his sleigh.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Okay, all right. Ho, ho, ho.
Santa Claus, everybody! Merry Christmas.
(festive music)
That's great.
Santa Claus.
All right, folks, you know, my next guest
of course he's been in movies--
Wow, these cameras are really something.
(audience laughing)
So do you put the tape right in the side there
or do you?
There's no tape,
actually the cable goes back to the control room.
Oh, it's one of those feeds?
Like where there's a cable feed and stuff and
oh, and you got wheels there,
you can move side to side as the situation demands.
Yeah.
That's exciting, you know--
Excuse me, Santa.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
We really are trying to do the show.
So if you-- Oh, understood,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm on my sleigh and flying away,
flown out of sight, okay, ho, ho, ho.
Okay, great, Santa Claus, everybody.
(audience cheering)
All right, well folks, my next guest tonight he's done--
So you're the producer.
Right, Santa.
And what do you do, exactly?
I produce show, I help organize everything.
Pull all the pieces together.
What's your name?
Jeff Ross.
Is that a Jewish name?
No.
Just wondering 'cause.
Yeah, Santa, Santa,
I'm sorry, I hate to be a jerk, but you,
you sort of keep interrupting.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I certainly meant no offense with the Jewish thing.
No, no, no, I know, I know,
I know, you're just speaking your mind.
I just hate to do this,
but I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
No, I understand, you got your presents now,
you're just gonna kick an old man out, huh?
No, no, no, no, it's not gonna be like that.
I'm not gonna kick you out, no.
No, no, you got what you wanted
and now you have no use for me anymore, huh?
All right, no, Santa it's not like that, Santa.
Oh, thanks.
Christmas day I'm a big hero and after that I guess
Santa gets the old Baltimore boot, huh?
Very well then, goodbye.
Well, Santa, no, don't do that.
Santa, people love you.
We appreciate all your hard work during Christmas.
Really you do?
Yes, yes.
Just stay, you can stay, we just need to do the show,
so if you could just try and be quiet.
Oh, hey, you got it, no problem.
I'm zipping my lips throwing away the key.
Ping, ping, ping, won't hear a peep out of this guy.
All right.
Enjoy the show. Great.
Thank you, Santa Claus.
Thank you, thank you.
Good to have you.
All right.
All right, anyway, folks that's nice.
That was nice of you to do that.
Now my next guest tonight, you've seen him in movies,
he's also of course done a.
(guitar music)
(scatting)
♪ We gotta go now ♪
Santa!
Santa, would you knock it off!
Santa!
♪ We gotta go now ♪
All right, we're taking a break, we'll be right back.
Artie Lang will be here.