Name: Jack Hanna Collection on Letterman, Part 2 of 11: 1987-1988
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jack Hanna Collection on Letterman, Part 2 of 11: 1987-1988' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-25. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jack Hanna Collection on Letterman, Part 2 of 11: 1987-1988' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-25. Transcript available.

Jack Hanna Collection on Letterman, Part 2 of 11: 1987-1988

thank you ladies and gentlemen you know you're not going to find a band
anywhere on television
better than these boys right over here and it's and if you actually are looking
i can only think
my gosh what a waste of time on your part you know the more i see our first
guest work with
animals the more i question the safety of everyone in this room he is a uh very
nice very entertaining
very intelligent man and he really does know what he's doing please welcome the
director
of the world famous columbus zoo in columbus ohio jack hannah jack
let me get my uh cigar with me wow jack that's a beautiful looking cat what is
that this is a cougar
dave it doesn't eat cigars it eats meat yeah but uh is he is he friendly oh
yeah let's he's purring you
can actually hear him can i go ahead and touch him on the head yeah you have
some more meat let me find
out of my meat here yeah i'm all out of meat jack i'm sorry was i supposed to
provide the meat today
uh piece of meat yeah now where do we find these guys is this an american
animal i just from north
america and they're the best leaping cat probably in the world they can go
about 20 30 feet in one
leap you say best leaping cat yeah jumping cat yeah really a vertical leap you
mean oops
got all the paper all over is there to put it in his mouth there oh oh yeah and
there's something
well this kind of kind of enjoyed that hey hey let go what now watch it now how
how old is the
more piece how old is the cat this cat's about seven months old and it'll be
get about another uh 50
pounds when it's full grown wow yeah but this is endangered in some states jack
another state
no here we got it come here come here come on okay you got the meat oh i still
have the meat yeah i was
concerned that he was uh i got the chicken in the box but these these are all
over the united states
all well just out west they're extinct in ohio now and there's about six in
florida so
it's a cat that's the word's called extirpated that that's the proper word extirpated
that means
it's not endangered and uh it's not uh you know uh threatened this kind of that's
a beautiful animal
what is his name uh this is darby okay you want to come and get darby no don't
eat the tenfold
all right that's it ain't gonna get darby thank you how do you bring these
animals up from uh out
from ohio jack oh in a couple of trucks the day before that's it darby go ahead
buddy and do you
ride with the animals yourself or do you fly in that afternoon sometimes i fly
in you know i like to
ride with them everything but i can't get too used to them why why can't you
get too used to them
jack because i don't you know i have to work with so many of them uh-huh you
don't want them to
become look at this thing how you like this isn't that neat what is that jack
that that is our show
chicken i took a blue ribbon at the ohio state fair that's a silky chicken now
they're not good
for eating or anything here now this is just something you've glued hair on isn't
it this is
not a real animal is it you just you just glued a little something on its head
and this is no i
didn't glue it look at that some kind of a sparrow i would suspect we call it
paul because it has a
haircut like paul does we thought oh that's very nice yeah but that's that's a
show this is a show
chicken that's the show chicken yeah is that a hen uh uh let me see i know you
know chickens chickens
have cloacas jack that's it that's a female chicken get my fox all right what
else do we have oh you
won't believe this i got i got the natural enemy to the chicken which i wanted
to show you
well jack what no
what do you mean
you have the natural enemy of the chicken there i just want to show them
well i've got a chicken right here
yeah this chicken's not good eat the hell are you frank purdue or
what
this is this is a silver fox uh-huh that's a beautiful animal now can i put the
chicken down
chicken never saw the fox before well now that oh lord smell this odor on this
fox i want you to see
a lot of people in it smell it smell is that you or the fox no it's a fox
come on it's the fox now what is it that's just this is the scent of a wild
animal right that's
right this is this is a domesticated fox of course they use these for coats
that's a beautiful animal
and again is that a north american right right silver fox yeah they can come
and get the fox now
because i got a lot of other things to show you that's interesting he didn't
even notice the
no see that's why i point his head over there so i brought two different bands
this time so the fox
could ride without the chicken well that's certainly using look at this thing
here you
want to look at something looks like prehistoric all right at this oh no i don't
that's look at
this thing all right put it just put it down there you can't tell the head from
the tail can you
boy no no you can't that's australian skink i'm sorry australian skinks skink
skink skink blue
tongue it's not a blue tongue skink this australian skink they're pretty rare
it see there you see the
head and the tail so when the the man or the man the predator might come up to
try and get them or
something they just they don't want to buy these things i thought they're
unique that's why i brought
well no they are unique i've never seen i had we just got them in the zoon but
what are what are
they they're they're lizards they're uh they're reptiles no no no they're they're
they're lizards
and they're they live in water no they're no they're arid uh-huh that means
they live on the
land i've never i've never seen a skink before in my life i know you won't ever
see another one because
they're pretty rare look at this here i want to show you i want to show you
this though you've been
doing some experimenting at the zoo haven't you no i have not again no i no all
right we've got to do a
commercial get out the next one yeah we'll be sorry keep him coming we'll be
right back with jack hannah
jack hannah from the columbus zoo is with us tonight sondra bernhardt and dave
edmonds with the band you
know i stepped on something and i felt it squish and i thought i had hit a skink
but it wasn't it was that
hunk of meat we were feeding me i thought you might stepped on my frog no
anyway this is an american bull
frog i want to show you some different frogs these are in ponds and lakes all
over the country all
over the country look at this thing here this is a columbian horned frog and
they they bite pretty
good but it's beautiful frog look at this wow isn't that gorgeous yeah that's
lovely wow those colors
are unbelievable and you remember this frog here this is your favorite frog
this is my big cone oh he's
all right he's all right he's fine what about the chicken jack is oh now now
now jack when people
go to the columba zoo and they park the station wagon and they go in is it just
animals every
running all over no we got it wait till you see this animal i got one of the
biggest are these gonna
be all right together he's fine you've seen chickens and frogs and what you see
is turtle i brought a
little turtle is that how you got the skinks these two bread one day and no no
this is this is my marine
toad uh-huh look at this turtle coming out here we got this turtle coming it's
a little teeny turtle
this is dean you gotta be careful put this turtle wow what about the chicken
jack put the chicken over
there that's dean he carries a turtle for me thanks dean nice job
you see the gorilla say hello i like look at this
anyway dave come here i'll show you no it's a big turtle well yeah right this
turtle this turtle is
about 60 years old this aldabra tortoise aldabra aldabra and now the male
turtle weighs about 400 pounds
and he has a groove down the center of his belly so when he breathes her it
slides right up on the
groove there i'll bring him next time but i couldn't get them both oh yeah i
think we'd all like to see
that well no i i wouldn't show it i'll show you his groove uh-huh you sure as
well it's very it's
very sensitive of you jackson uh this is out there how much does this thing
weigh shoot this weighs
about 300 pounds you can hold him here i got some more turtles i'm not going to
hold him you have uh
that's right dean dean with the yeah look at this where is this from this this
tortoise that's all
that's from the aldabra islands on the coast of africa off the coast of africa
i'm going to africa
to learn a lot more about all this uh is there really an aldabra island you get
the frog jack jack
can't get the thing off if where are my assistance i can't get the my snapping
turtle out of here
oh yeah blame it on the assistance jack i can't seem to unload this thing
somebody can help me get
the turtle out of there i appreciate it that's my one thank you very much for
helping look at this
turtle here now you want to see something jack has trouble with the concept of
the clasp watch this
turtle this is this turtle bites that turtle bites yeah this he's he's not
biting right now but now
now these turtles despite the fact that they're all different are generally
related aren't exactly all
the turtles are related this is a we're the only zoo in the country to breed
this turtle this is a giant
musk turtle this was bred in captivity oh yeah this thing's going to fall off
the desk dean's got it
cheese
i'll tell you what jack look look look do some local shows in columbus get it
figured out
and then come to new york okay okay now what kind is this this is my giant must
turtle and it does bite
it's this is a we're the only one zoo in the country to breed the giant must
turtle see let me see show
you all right it's the trip see it's a long trip anyway i have a i have a
little turtle to show
everybody a little turtle this turtle here how are we doing look at the i want
i want to compare the
little turtles again they're the same same animal aren't they the same isn't
that amazing now this is
a water turtle this is a land turtle right now look at this here what's this
one's name jack the big
one what's the name that's al al it's a female turtle look at this female
turtle this is a turtle egg
turtle egg yeah see that's what turtles so here in one little display we've run
the gamut for turtles
look at this right here it is yeah the egg and the baby and then the big turtle
that's it anything else
jack is we got to go huh you got one more back here oh yeah the caracal cat mescovite
stand right
back there caracal isn't that beautiful that's a beautiful now that's that's a
wild cat also oh yeah
that's a caracal can i touch it oh yeah where is this from that's from uh that's
from northern africa
and egyptians you won't believe this story i know you ain't got time but
no we don't know i read this so they go they use these for hunting uh-huh and
they kill about 13
birds and then egypt the cat would eat one bird then the egyptians would go and
take the other 12
birds well that's yeah pretty a pretty efficient use of a bird this this cat
looks like a domestic
cat almost yeah it's a beautiful animal with nice interesting you dean you dean
might have to take
the turtle yeah okay well we got to roll along here i know we do that's why it
takes a long time
get him out of here okay all right thank thank you very much jack oh yeah jack
hannah ladies and gentlemen
jack welcome back to the program today's tuesday it's almost the end of march
isn't it what's today
the 29th the 30th 31st 31st and tomorrow's april 1st that's right yeah spring
amazing that's right
tomorrow's april fool's day isn't that amazing yeah uh oh if you haven't seen
the program in in a
while let me show you something brand new we're kind of proud of there it is
right there
i think we're the we're the first to have this particular talk show accessory i
don't think you see
this anywhere else how could we have i love this this is my favorite thing in
five years this is
my absolute favorite thing uh what a show good show tonight eh paul let's get
to it a gentleman
who's been on the program many times he's back again he