Name: Rob & Etta Rollins, Balloon Artists, on Letterman, February 7, 1984
Uploaded: 2016-05-09T01:37:14.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rob & Etta Rollins, Balloon Artists, on Letterman, February 7, 1984' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rob & Etta Rollins, Balloon Artists, on Letterman, February 7, 1984' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-09. Transcript available.

thank you so much my next guests have performed all over the world they
currently appear in the
new witty allen film broadway danny rose and we are delighted to have them with
us tonight please
welcome balloon artists bob and etta rollins hi bob nice to meet you how are
you etta how are you
nice to see you folks come on down here uh bob uh why don't you just well let's
get right into it
and uh you and etta show me what we're going to do here tonight from the top
down from the top down
pretty much the standard way to inflate a balloon from the bottom up from the
bottom
up unbelievable ladies and gentlemen from the bottom up from the top down the
bottom up and
a bubble in the middle no really all right we'll take slope what happened there
all right very nice now let me make one for you uh david how long you've been
doing this bob oh you
can't answer me i'm sorry forgive me i'm sorry and how long has bob been doing
this for years for years
years okay all the way back every time we make these annals they always ask
well how do you make from the
bottom up and the back and forward yeah how do you etta how does how does bob
do that with these oh he's a
genius are these trick balloons no have you folks ever worked with a russian
psychic before
now three different positions medium small and large
and large
all these are college education are these special special balloons no they're
not
all you have to do now just keep on twisting
make it together
watch the noise on this guy you'll like that oh you'll like this guy when he
asked for big ones
this is the biggest thing we can make for them what the what is this going to
etta what's this
going to be right this will be a giraffe okay
oh that's
very nice
very nice
now i need to point out right now because of security reasons we can't pass
these out to the crowd
so i'm off this
everybody's going to get this plus a couch what do you want
now here you are one for you one for me right what do you want me to do here
bob
blow it all the way up now let's see if you can blow it all the way that you
take your time
this is a trick balloon no no i'm gonna run a lung will collapse no no no no
all right
high blow high high
see look of course of course we'll know she's she's lived with you for years
and years
thank you very much oh this is starting to feel good i'm getting a little warm
in the head
that's it all the way that's easy there you are well there's some sort of blockage
down here we're
going to have to operate but now let's let's put this down here one for you one
for me one for my
lady my family now all you have to do is just like this bend the balloon bend
the balloon that's
right so you can see here in the x-ray bob where this is going to have to come
out we
now you twist it like that this is what all the clowns do all over the country
it's safe to twist
this right go ahead twist it don't be afraid twist it that's it all right okay
there one twist or two
no just all right whatever you want to do whatever you now i'd like to be
somewhere having a drink if
it's up to me uh okay one more one more okay that's safe now again now you take
all right leave it loose
that's for safety leave it loose okay all right just twist it around again
what's that it doing back there oh she's making it she made it already see that's
all right now
leave it loose leave it loose all right now now you take it again again
anywhere just yeah all right
you twist it again like that all right now you go from the back in the back in
like this
put it back here come on all the way back here all the way back here now you
twist it this way
that's the boy now you twist it like that you have this this is what they we
have one minute
here that's it the clown like that how about that all right now all right can i
can i show you
something here uh this is finished this is the deal okay well wouldn't this
light up any little kid's face
now i want you to do the same thing as i give me that little one all right
there's one for you one for
me what is what does edda normally do in the act what do you normally do edda
she does everything
you handle the balloons and so forth do you enjoy this kind of work love it i
wouldn't do anything else
but bob pay pretty well doesn't look for you all right okay now i want you to
do the same thing as i do
okay we're just desperately out of time here bob now put your little finger on
the end
they're not they're not somebody stand up in the center center somebody stand
up put your index
finger no way up way up by your girl there you are honey here it goes oh that's
that's very nice
we'll be right back
thank you folks edda thank you very much bob thank you very much we're almost
out of time i want to
thank robert klein and of course lev schneider and the gentleman with the
electronic finding device
mr grim depenesis and tony gatillo this is the safe sane way to have fun we'll
see you folks tomorrow
night thank you very much