DECEMBER 5, 2004 --

Dear Jackie,

Thanks for the photo op after your show, November 27, in Torrington, CT, at the beautifully-restored Warner Theater.

Before the show, I took some quick photos of former Gov. John G. Rowland, in the lobby -- and I heard someone say that he had something to do with the restoration.

Anyway, I wanted to see the reception you would get in Litchfield County and I found that it was about the same as what you get when you appear on Broadway. Lots of laughs -- and applause.

I was not aware of anyone uncomfortable with all the f-words -- other than me, and otherwise, I laughed as much at the Warner as I did when I saw you on Broadway or, even years before that, at the Concord Hotel in Kiamesha Lake, NY (I don't think you used the f-word
at the Concord though).

People laughed at your comments about
Torrington -- including the one that it would be a good place for the witness protection program, because no one would be found there -- and then New York. (I liked the comment recognizing that New York City has a pothole problem, which the media seems yet to
notice.)

And your comments about Gentiles and Jews, and the Adkins diet, and being in a hospital where you can't understand what the Indian doctor is saying and the nurses are not very pleasant.

You didn't have much current political stuff in your act -- the references to Senator Kerry seemed to me a bit dated due to the election.

And of course the remarks about men, women and sex drew lots of laughs -- along with some heads nodding in agreement on relations between husbands and wives.

Now, I am no comedy writer, but I have a hunch you would get laughs talking about parking in New York City and parking violations.

This routine might start with an observation how you can't trust a politician, and how they don't have much interest, it seems, at least in New York City, in serving the people, including making life a bit more tolerable for
drivers.

This routine could start: "Did you ever hear a politician run for office promising to increase parking fines, and demanding that cars at overtime meters get towed -- on pain of foreclosure?"

And you could add how parking signs seem to be written with intent to confuse the driver to get more fines.

You could do a variation on one of your current routines, saying how you can park on Mondays and Thursdays but not on Tuesdays and Fridays but on certain hours on Wednesdays and including Sunday, except between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., unless you are a commercial vehicle.

Then you could say how it might be a lot simpler if the police stopped cars at checkpoints and demanded payments for the City in lieu of fines -- say a hundred
bucks a week to drive in Manhattan - Uh-oh, better stop -- don't want to give City Hall any ideas.

Best regards,
David