They wanted me to go out and promote my book everywhere. I’d never get on. If I ever did, I said, “No, I’m not doing it.” “You already signed this contract. “You have to go on Letterman, Good Morning, America, “And two other shows. “You have to promote your book… Read More
This is terrible, we, of course they love watching ’cause they don’t know what I’m gonna do. You know, I don’t know I’m gonna do either. Like when I showed him a bat, one time. Read More
I created this myself, I took a tennis ball, put hair on it, okay?… Read More
I had a box, called a bat box, you know?… Read More
It’s almost like going into a game with him, you know?… Read More
You can’t match wits with a guy. He’s got the greatest wit of any comedian in the history of, Johnny Carson was good too, but Letterman is, he’s not Johnny Carson, none of us are. We’re all who we are, but he’s quick. Oh he can tear you apart in… Read More
How do you let him treat you that way?… Read More
And so they’re, they’re watching TV, what?… Read More
On Letterman, they’re watching me have fun, right?… Read More
So there’s a, there’s a whole different venue for me. It’s very difficult as I said before. Yes, the animal might take a pee. I don’t make the animal take a pee. I don’t make the animal do anything. I don’t become flamboyant. I try and become, when Dave, it’s… Read More
Why, quote, has Jack Hanna been successful and, or the Columbus zoo?… Read More
Because I try and teach animals and conservation in a plain way. I just said the average ability of a person in this country watching TV probably is a 10th to maybe 12th grade education. Read More
When I go on the show, do I turn into a different person?… Read More
You could say that, because do I know now about animals?… Read More
I’m not saying I know everything about animals, by no means. I mean, Dr. Conway, yourself, all the, all these other guys could put me to shame, in their knowledge about animals. I know animals in a common way. Read More
You mean his flamboyant personality or your saying mine?… Read More
Yours. I didn’t, you see people think I’m flamboyant. I look at myself as the same Jack Hanna. Read More
So yes, some of the stuff I did might’ve been criticized for, but knock on wood so far, I’ve never, I’ve had a serious bite myself, that’s the only person I know of in all my shows, hundreds of them, thousands of them by now. And I’ve never injured anybody… Read More
Well. When talked about Letterman, when, how did you decide to have, I guess what I’d use, a flamboyant personality, on the Letterman show?… Read More
Was that something that was consciously decided with him or?… Read More