JF: Yeah. That’s an amazing, amazing, eye-opening moment. It really is.
DC: It takes a life of its own and rolls along. It’s almost like you don’t have to hang on.
JF: We just had Robert De Niro back for our 100th show. He did the first show—I was just so nervous. Robert De Niro! I actually typed out the questions I was going to ask him and e-mailed them to him. He wanted to see them. So he goes, “I don’t like these questions. Can you give me some more questions?” So I typed up more questions. I sent them to him. He goes, “It’s getting there, but I don’t know. I really want to see more questions.”
DC: That’s a terrible thing to do!
JF: So I typed out more questions, and I sent them to him, and I go, “By the way, this interview is only six minutes long.” He writes, “Thank God, ’cause these questions keep getting worse and worse.” And he was my first guest! The second time, we didn’t give him any lines. He just came out. I said, “A friend of mine bet we wouldn’t make it to a hundred shows. So you owe me a hundred dollars. You know who you are.” And De Niro came out, shaking his head. He put a hundred dollars on the table.
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