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American Morning
'Funny Side Up'
Aired February 22, 2002 - 07:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: And we're back at nine minutes before the hour on this Friday morning. Time now to put our "Funny Side Up", the amusing side of being famous. David Letterman is hounded by photographers every day, and he brought it up late last night on "The Late Show".
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DAVID LETTERMAN, THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: Immediately I start screaming obscenities at him. What the hell are you doing? You (UNINTELLIGIBLE) get back in the car, leave me alone (UNINTELLIGIBLE) well that's my job. I'm sorry it's my job. I said I don't care. I said you don't have to do this, blah, blah, blah, and we're yakking back and forth. And I'm - as I'm screaming because I've been running, there's a great deal of spittle accumulated. And I'm now soaking the poor kid and he says hey, stop spitting on me. And I said - I said OK, how about this? You stop taking pictures, I'll stop spitting on you. I thought there's a - that'll hold up in court (ph).
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ZAHN: And Jack, that's what kind of happens to you every morning when you try to leave this place right across ...
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Yes.
ZAHN: ... the street from the Tip Top Diner (ph).
CAFFERTY: See here's the part I don't understand.
ZAHN: And that is?
CAFFERTY: A guy who gets paid $15 million a year to appear on television, and he doesn't want people to take his picture when he goes out in the street.
ZAHN: And how different is that from a certain morning show host ...
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ZAHN: ... complaining about her hours.
CAFFERTY: Oh yes, oh Katie Couric. That's the other one. Yes ...
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CAFFERTY: ... she's in the newspapers whining about having to get up in the morning and I - somebody said the new contracts, 65 million bucks, it's $55,000 a day.
ZAHN: Ouch.
CAFFERTY: Hey Katie, you know, deal with it darling.
The trouble with vaccines, a royal power outage and slackers on parade now as is our custom each and every Friday, we swing across the pond, get a look at what's got fleet streets knickers in a knot, and our guide for that, as always is Richard Quest over there. Happy Friday, good morning Richard. What's up?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes - good morning - no pictures please. No - you'll have to just wait. I'm sorry Jack. You know 55,000 a day and look what I have to put it with. Let's (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and see what we've got -- the big news that's taking place.
One of the big talking points that's been in Britain over the past few has been the MMR vaccine, serious subject -- measles and mumps and rubella. Now the problem is that in Britain you have to have all three together. The MMR vaccine and of course there were great fears about what this actually can do to people and there's been lots and lots of coverage about this. And what's happening is many private clinics are now starting to offer the single vaccine on its own and has now completely ran out across the country.
The prime minister has said the MMR vaccine is safe, but he won't admit whether Leo, his little boy, who is two years old, whether Leo has had the MMR vaccine. So what we have is confusion. We have chaos. We have big stories in the paper at the moment and indeed we have profiteering.
I want to take you very quickly to Commander Crackpot. This is Commander Crackpot. He is a top policeman who admitted - he's a top policeman who's admitted on Internet Web sites the concept of amateurism has always appealed to me. The innate goodness of an individual society that is corrupted. His nickname is Commander Crackpot.
Now here's something that you will sympathize with. The Queen, dear her Majesty is in Jamaica or she was earlier this week, on the last part of her - first part of her leg round the commonwealth, when the lights went out. There she was dressing for dinner when all of a sudden there was a blackout. It gave rise to the extraordinary picture of the Queen having to be guided to her table by powerful (ph) lumps (ph) and her Majesty said, "I was putting my tiara on when the lights failed. Isn't it difficult getting dressed in the dark". One cannot see when one's putting one's tiara on. I know that's the sort of problem you face every morning. CAFFERTY: Yes wearing my tiara. You know, obviously I couldn't find it this morning because I didn't get it on. Richard, nice to see you. Have a good weekend and watch out for all those photographers. Richard Quest in London, one of the real good guys in this company - Paula.
ZAHN: So how often do you think that happens to the Queen, where she doesn't have the benefit of electricity while ...
CAFFERTY: There ...
ZAHN: ... she's getting dressed.
CAFFERTY: ... was no truth to the rumor that Prince Philip was behind having the lights turned out. Just a rumor (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
ZAHN: Do you know that someone did a little report on what the Queen carries in her purse.
CAFFERTY: No.
ZAHN: Apparently she never carries money. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) one tube of lipstick.
CAFFERTY: That's it?
ZAHN: That's a sensible purse isn't it?
CAFFERTY: Wow, I guess, yes.
ZAHN: As long as you have 10 hundred thousand people behind you that's ...
CAFFERTY: That's right.
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CAFFERTY: Carries the credit cards and the cash.
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ZAHN: Yes exactly.
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