ladies and gentlemen we haven't done this for quite some time you know
the only way to continually operate a successful nightly network television talk show you have to
keep in touch with your audience you folks here in the ed sullivan theater represent the vast
north american group of home viewers so we always we have to find out we have to
take the pulse of the studio audience and find out what it is they want what they're thinking
about what can we do for them and we accomplish this with a little thing we like to call and we
haven't done this for years and years and years tonight ladies and gentlemen it's your night
we're going to play is it a game uh it's yes no it's not no it's not a game it's not a game
what is it it's a little something we call who asked for it here we go
that's right okay stop it stop it stop it here's what we do we have a microphone
we have a microphone in the in the audience people come up whatever they want to know whatever they
want to talk about we'll take a couple of seconds and see if we can't satisfy them right here on the
big show yes sir what is your name please tim casper hi tim where are you from fargo north
dakota oh that's a beautiful part of the country isn't it yes it is oh my god what do you do for
living in fargo i work at a suncoast video store oh that must be exciting challenging work isn't it
what's your what's your favorite movie uh tim favorite movie raiders of the lost oh man of
all time yeah what about jaws have you ever seen that that's pretty good too et did you like et
any spielberg movie yeah there you go all right uh did you have a question for us tonight was it tim
tim all right tim go right ahead uh one of the most beautiful images i've ever seen on television
is the view of the earth from the space shuttle who can forget that i know exactly what he's
talking about you know the space shuttle very often can turn a camera on the planet earth the
planet that they're circling out there in lonely deep space and we get that wonderful majestic shot
of the planet earth uh and you want to see that if we could please i'm sorry we can't do that
we we do have something i think you might enjoy it's also from manasseh go ahead roll
it hal here enjoy this tim if you will it's a monkey washing a cab there you go
who asked for yes ma'am
yes ma'am how may i help you um i was wondering if i've always wanted to kiss a big-time tv star
if you would mind what is your name ma'am nadine henley uh-huh where are you from nadine i'm from
new york city new york city what do you do for a living um i'm an artist i'm uh presently at school
i study at the sculpture center here in new york city okay so you're a sculpturist then yes i am oh
well that's nice to know uh and you would like to if you don't mind again repeat the question please
i was wondering if um i i've always wanted to kiss a big time tv star and
i was wondering if you'd like all right if you promise not to get wet clay on the suit
all right here we go
that was cute that was cute was it that was cute
all right who's next here on who asked for it tonight yeah john here hi hi john how you doing
how are you doing what's your name you're john where are you from you're from jersey
well no wonder you're so darn proud what can i do for you john
yeah dave uh can i can i get into uh into that can i well
does he have a card anywhere here let me just sort of there we go let me just give him the damn card
there you here right here you're in blue john
all right here we go can i get in on that oh wait a minute ah wait a minute all right read
it now right here yeah i was wondering any chance of me getting some of that
um i don't know what do you think paul if i have to okay sure come on up john garett
ah
good job relaxing in the glow of a job well done yeah
we used to get a higher caliber audience member you know
uh how are we doing on time do we just keep going on this yeah it's keep going
okay uh who's next oh there we go we got another guy hi hi how are you don fees hi don fees how do
you spell that last name don f-e-e-s oh you know i've never heard that name before that's unusual
and kind of interesting where are you from from lawrence kansas lawrence kansas hey the heartland
that's the uh i believe it's the home of the university of kansas isn't it jayhawks you go to
school there yeah i'm a student all right what do you study um i'm not really sure at this point but
very undecided and you're in what your third fourth year
the junior been there three years has no idea what he's studying that's all right
why don't you have a seat with john you guys ride home together all right
uh what can i do for you well i'm not going to be able to stay around for the whole show and i was
wondering if you could show me how it turns out oh sure you want to see the rest of the show do
me a favor this guy's got to leave going back to lawrence kansas or something fast forward through
the rest of the show let him see what happens okay watch this good good question there we are
there's sinbad right yeah we're chatting it's in bed having a life
nice time uh here's paul but paul grabs oh it's grabs him wait a minute let's oh my god
that's tough
i guess i'll get to see sinbad at least yeah that's right
maybe maybe next time you'll know what you're studying son let that be a lesson to you
is there anybody
hello how are you good how are you what is your name my name is crystal parker crystal parker
well that's a lovely name as well where are you from crystal i'm from fitchburg massachusetts
fitchburg massachusetts what brings you to new york city crystal i'm just visiting all right
and what's on your mind tonight well i just wanted to say that i think that she should really take a
close look at a relationship i mean obviously this guy's just some kind of loser that hasn't worked
a day in his life i mean you know you got to look out for yourself girl because no one is going to
do it before wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute excuse me hang on a second i see it's
been a mix-up i i'm sorry i think we have one of yours can you take care of this for us there we go
it won't happen again what happened
you go with m2 i think you're in the wrong place
we gotta do a commercial we'll be back with sinbad ladies