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Penn's Sunday School

Robert Klein (part I)

Penn's Sunday School

Penn's Sunday School

Society & Culture, Comedy, Arts

4.85.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The classic comedy of Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Saturday Night Live, & The Tonight Show, as seen through the eyes of Robert Klein, originator of the HBO comedy special. Drugs, angering Chuck Berry, & boating with Rodney Dangerfield. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:01.0

Here we go, we're rolling.

0:16.0

Brothers and sisters, welcome to Penn Sunday School

0:18.0

here at Show Creators Studios in Las Vegas, Nevada.

0:20.0

Tonight we have a very special guest here on the program.

0:23.0

Robert Klein is here.

0:26.0

Star film, television, and stage for four legendary comedy albums.

0:30.0

Robert Klein is also in Las Vegas playing in the South Point.

0:32.0

We're so happy you found time to stop by and hang out with us right here.

0:36.0

So here he is talking with the man preaching the love.

0:39.0

Penn Gillette.

0:41.0

I would start right away by you saying that you were not in the aristocrats.

0:46.0

I don't know why.

0:48.0

I'm going to blame Paul Provenza because from the very beginning we talked about that.

0:52.0

And then you said that some reviewer referred you as a safe comedian.

0:56.0

Which is exactly wrong.

0:58.0

They sent a, yeah, I would say.

1:00.0

You know, I'm a good deal older than you and and tell her.

1:05.0

And you're well, we're a generation maybe apart.

1:08.0

Joe Mrs. I certainly took a lot of chances when I we couldn't.

1:12.0

Genea Belafonte, she's actually an elegant writer for the times,

1:15.0

but she's not a reviewer.

1:17.0

And they sent her somehow to,

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