ah
how are you i'm good now
it's gonna be all right
[Applause]
everyone here is is so so excited that
you're doing the program
i know you get embarrassed with that
kind of praise well i'm excited too oh
well thank you
as you should be big show
on very late at night uh but you know
it's funny because i've always i've
always been a fan
since day one and you've always uh
always done
these amazing great bits on
talk shows late night talk shows i mean
amazing bits that are just
they're in the museum of bits that a
comedian can do
i mean i remember when you did you did
you went on johnny carson and you did
stand up for dogs
extremely funny
[Laughter]
yes you did on letterman you did uh
steve's uh steve and dave's gay vacation
that was a great
that was a great bid and that's another
that was a fantastic bit
masterpiece
and they're all i mean they're all so
good well i'll tell you
uh it is it's really fun to do those
shows because you know they're they're
so funny they're they're comedy shows
right and um
you know you go out and and you know
dave creates an atmosphere of humor and
you just
feel so funny and you feel so much
funnier
it's just you just come to life it's
just so much comedy carson you have an
amazing
timing right and then uh of course when
i
when i think of your show you know i i
think of books
and when they ask me you know what
what show do you want to promote your
book on yeah i said well
they said do you want to do like a
comedy show i said no
uh i want to do a show that when i look
at right
i think of books books so
so i guess i'll just tell you a little
bit about my book
about your your book uh shop shop girl
right
you see when i wrote the book
i wanted i was very concerned about the
point of view of the narrator
i didn't know if i wanted an omniscient
narrator
or a personal narrator now the book was
written in the past
tense and the past tense creates a
paradox of the omniscient narrator
because what you have is a situation do
you understand what i'm doing yeah
i i i'm sorry i believe me i in no way
mean to be rude
i mean i i i love the book it's gotten a
critical praise everyone loves the book
i just kind of
thought that coming on this show you'd
plan a little something
funny you know i just thought that you
would uh
would uh would
you know you thought you thought
i'm sorry i didn't get the memo on what
conan thought
yeah i'm so sorry i just kind of you
know
[Laughter]
what what what's so funny i'm just
thinking of something i'm going to do on
the letterman show oh my god
it's an instant classic it's so funny
anyway it's really good
yeah anyway back to books the paradox
of the omniscient narrator is
[Applause]
what was that all about oh that's the
bit i'm going to do on letterman
they came to the wrong studio the wrong
time it's almost funny but
oh my god so that's i mean that looks
pretty cool is that that way
that's only the beginning of what i'm
going to do on letterman that's just
nothing compared to what i'm going to do
so anyway did you did you did you bring
out i mean did you you didn't plan
anything then
oh no actually for this show yeah oh
please
absolutely i'm very you did you did plan
something absolutely
that's exciting he planned something
i'm i'm very pleased to introduce the
literary critic of the yale graduate
school of serious fiction
i enjoyed mr martin's shop girl it was
witty provocative and urbane
an enjoyable read
that's gonna that's gonna be fantastic
on your highlight reel
it's gonna be in the anniversary show
grocery show all right we're gonna take
a little break right now
and then we're going to really talk
about some things here we will and not
books
stick around more with steve martin in a
second