You have a part in a new show.
It doesn't start 'til the 21st,
starts in a couple days. That's tomorrow!
Day after tomorrow, or tomorrow?
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow?
How about that!
Okay, but, it's almost there, and once it starts
you could sit down and watch the whole thing, right?
Yeah.
(applause)
We got a clip.
Yeah, yeah, it's called the pilot,
it's called-- And, Josh Groban's
in it too, who I love!
One of our favorite guests, and boy, what a voice he has.
Got them.
Both of you, so talented.
Oh, but he doesn't sing, he doesn't sing on the show.
He doesn't sing
on the show. I sing.
He fights.
(laughter)
So, tell everybody the set-up.
It's called,
The Good Cop. It's called, The Good Cop.
It's called, The Good Cop.
And, between the two of us,
we make one good cop, I think.
But, he's a real stickler for every rule
and I'm sort of a guy who went to jail.
(laughter)
And, because of my parole,
as a condition of my parole,
we have to live together
in the house he grew up in.
Oh, you're a bad, bad cop.
Like, you went to jail, cop.
I went to jail,
and I did seven years.
And he,
and he and I, we're like the odd couple.
It's really,
and what's great about Josh,
I want you to know. Everything. I love him.
Well, I'm gonna tell you something.
Well, I didn't know, you know?
You don't know 'til you show up.
Do a lot of acting?
I don't know.
A guy said to me, Josh Groban,
a friend of mine said,
"It's either inspired or a disaster."
But anyway, so, he comes
and we work together,
and the second week I wrote him an email.
I said "Josh, I just want to say how impressed I am
with your work and your work ethic.
"Not that I'm the greatest judge,
"I don't presume to be,
"But, I'm having a great time working with you."
He's just such a great guy, and so, so much fun.
And, he's gonna surprise a lot of people, I think.
(audience applause) Yeah, I think he's
a really talented actor,
among everything else.
Let's, do we need to see the-- You know what else?
He does voices.
It's crazy. You know, like he's a clown,
he's hysterical.
I mean, you know, he's,
he surprised me.
He's one-stop shopping.
Yes!
(audience applause)
So, in real life, you work with
the Police Athletic League, right?
Oh yeah.
You're a friend of police officers in real life too,
which means he hasn't gotten a ticket in decades.
(laughter)
I'm just kidding.
No, well, what it means is that I,
I'm on the Board of Directors
of the Police Athletic League. Wow!
I was a PAL kid.
For those of you who don't know, New York,
we've got PAL.
Police Athletic League is a partnership for kids.
I was a PAL kid because the beat cop in my neighborhood,
in East New York, in Brooklyn,
which, by the way, is that Euclid Avenue,
is my stop!
That's so funny. Oh my God, that's so funny!
But anyway, the beat cop strongly suggested
I should give PAL a try, so I did.
(laughter)
But I'm on the Board of Directors now,
and, we started a program...
PAL serves 35,000 kids in the city.
But, we started a program called PAL Acting.
It's an after-school
acting program. That's awesome!
Teen acting.
And here's the slogan,
PAL Acting, because when you teach a kid how to act,
you teach a kid how to act!
(hearty laughter)
Very good!
You know what I mean?
(audience applauds) And it's been amazing!
We started with 12 kids, up in Harlem Center.
We have three installations now.
We have over 200 kids.
That's great.
We just put on a big benefit June 28th
at John Jay College,
put on a big benefit,
raised a bunch of money.
The kids and the cops singing together.
Oh man!
(audience applauds) You gotta understand.
You gotta understand.
You know, PAL,
you know, New York City especially,
PAL is at the nexus of one
of the most intractable problems
we have in this country,
and young people and the police.
And so we, you know, we're talking all the time,
talking about neighborhood policing
and having the community involved and everything,
and this really does the trick.
And, Commissioner O'Neill has even said to me,
said to the board, that he would set a benchmark.
If I could get like an after-school program
in every precinct in the city,
then you set a benchmark at the precincts
where the cops have to spend
a certain amount of time with the program.
So, the kids meet the cops before they're in trouble.
That's right! And, they get to
know each other! Holy Mackerel!
Yeah!
And, I was asking backstage
about his cabaret show
because there's so much in it.
It's not just singing and dancing,
it's really visiting with you,
and you're such a warm person.
It's storytelling.
Tell the people what it's like.
Well, cabaret, cabaret,
that's what I think cabaret is supposed to be.
Cabaret is you're supposed to make a connection
with the audience.
It's a visit.
Yeah, it's a visit.
You know, you come,
and there's, you know, a few hundred people,
and you try to weave a tale,
using songs to evoke,
to hyper evoke emotions,
and stuff that you wanna.
And, you tell personal and professional stories,
and try to wrap it all together.
And then, and then I bring out my secret weapon.
What's your secret weapon?
I play the ukulele.
Oh!
(audience applauds)
Alright, so now, the list is long.
Now, when you come back,
you have to bring the ukulele.
Oh, I will, I will.
And you have to bring the artichokes.
(laughter) I will, alright, okay.
(laughter)
I love you Tony, I've known you for years.
You're such a great person!
That's so nice to hear ya.
Good day! (audience cheers)
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