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00:35...and the Bretnam is back in the Midwest.
00:37And Eric Buhrd says that the Bretnam is back in the middle of the ham.
00:42Who is it?
00:43The Bret?
00:44The fraternity fellows.
00:46Yeah, whoever.
00:48Of course!
00:50There were 60 people who came from Washington,
00:53But they didn't like what they saw, so they decided to do something about it.
01:07Armed with deprimandation and a strong view, to choose the course of time,
01:12they wrote their own notes, classy notes.
01:16But they knew that wasn't enough, they had to sell them.
01:19Letting nothing stand in their way, they went straight to the networks.
01:24But the networks just weren't ready for it.
01:27Not NBC.
01:30Not CBS.
01:32Not even ABC.
01:35But they didn't stop them.
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02:03Second City started in Chicago in 1959, and originally came out of the University of Chicago.
02:09One of them was the West Campus Players.
02:11It was the University of Chicago.
02:13They didn't have a theater department.
02:14And they created their own.
02:16They being Elaine May, Mike Douglas, Severn Darden, Delco's Bernie Sollens,
02:21Shelton Taker, there was a lot.
02:24And they get answers.
02:25Part of that.
02:26Shelly Berman.
02:26Barry Truman.
02:27Barry Truman was part of that.
02:29He had great stuff.
02:33I grew up in Chicago.
02:34I'd grown up in the kind of Phoenix.
02:37It was about the atmosphere of the earlier 60s.
02:41It, in fact, was a guitar player.
02:44It was a singer.
02:45In the 60s, as the whole country started to make up, from the close, you know, from the
02:52power slumber of the veterans at the World Court, people had money for us started finding
02:57their toys and more solid.
03:00How many times did you end here at political?
03:03Well, it was a floor of, you know, beyond which you did not go to.
03:08You did not go to judge for us.
03:10You did not use acceptance for us.
03:14And you did not use the things for us.
03:16And you always serve the same.
03:19Back to the top of your intelligence and the top of your intelligence.
03:23But after college, it went back to the late 60s when I saw David Steinberg in the
03:28State of the Second City was very difficult.
03:32And I thought it was very fun.
03:34It was really smart.
03:37But I had the reaction that a lot of people had come through Second City.
03:42I looked at them and thought, I could do that.
03:45And it seems so accessible to the State of the Second City.
03:48And the audience is just a week away.
03:50And they've literally put their feet up to the city.
03:52I'm going to the county college here.
03:54White Park University.
03:55And they had a program with Pittsburgh Playoffs.
03:58It was a good drama group there.
04:01And they did a whole season.
04:03Which, they did the theater from Chicago came in.
04:05And did a whole season of repertory.
04:07And I would have been hearing a little bit of parts in the productions.
04:11The season ended.
04:12They left different.
04:13They went back to Chicago.
04:16And I made most of you.
04:18And nothing was going.
04:19And I remember Mike.
04:21He had a killer.
04:23He had worked at the playoffs.
04:25He hadn't seen me.
04:26He hadn't had new things.
04:27She didn't know it.
04:28And I said, please, do you need any actors?
04:30And I said, no, I don't need any actors.
04:34But I did meet a state manager.
04:37And she didn't know anything about lights.
04:39And I found myself in Chicago in Second City.
04:43And I looked.
04:44And there's these little sketches.
04:46Funny bits.
04:47Some daring bits.
04:48And then I had to listen to an empathize.
04:50And I thought, wow, this is great.
04:53I just love this.
04:55You know, I've got to be a part of this.
04:56I just have it.
04:57Where do these performers come from?
04:59Producer Bernard Solis, please.
05:02Oh, West Chicago family.
05:03I went to Chicago.
05:05And we were looking at other theaters.
05:07when they were at home.
05:10And the touring companies are just not a jazz slide.
05:13And then, they were lucky.
05:16And we didn't know how they were going to have them.
05:19And then the touring company.
05:23I had a group of lights that had helped them out.
05:25And they were lucky to use those.
05:27And then the touring company at times, Jim Fisher,
05:30and Harold Ramis,
05:33Brian Murray, and I believe,
05:35Brian Murray.
05:35Yeah, yeah, and Chris Morgan, Bernie didn't like to, the company was there, they were too long, they were grouchy
05:42and mean, so he shipped them off to New York, he said, you know, I'm not a second of a
05:48show up there, New York, so he owned a nice show, but Bernie didn't require anybody, he would just send
05:53them off to the theater somewhere, so he had a big meeting there.
06:05What happened? You blew it up?
06:36What happened?
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