Name: Rocco Morobito on Letterman, December 8, 1987
Uploaded: 2016-05-02T23:52:59.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rocco Morobito on Letterman, December 8, 1987' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-02. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rocco Morobito on Letterman, December 8, 1987' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2016-05-02. Transcript available.

so uh yeah thank you they were gonna light the christmas tree outside the
building tonight but
we've just been informed that they'll do it tomorrow night
do it tomorrow night a few days ago our first guest decided he wanted to go to
the beach so
he put his baby sister in the back seat of the family station wagon back the
car out of the
driveway and hit the road folks please say hello to rocco morbito
hi rocco how are you have a seat nice to have you here rocco you look great you
look good you feel
all right you've had quite an experience haven't you have you uh what is this
friday morning this
all happened when you took the car for a drive about friday morning had you had
you ever driven
a car before that time no no do you do you have a little toy car that you
operate i have a big foot
a big a big i don't know what that is it's a toy big foot okay um do you you
must like automobiles
pretty well do you find them fun do you find them fascinating and interesting
yeah yeah so you just
decided that you would drive right yeah
you know there could be a place for you rocco at the phone company
now so you went out and you got into the car what kind of car is it rocco
station wagon late model
station wagon ford chevy buick something like that
all right whatever it's a station wagon so you got the keys now where did you
get the keys rocco
on top of the refrigerator on top of the refrigerator did you have to climb up
on something to get those keys
you were just able to get them now where was mom
sleeping on the bed mom was asleep this was quite early in the morning wasn't
it about seven o'clock in the morning
yeah yeah so you and your little sister you go out into the driveway and you
get into the car
now did you know in your mind that you were going for a ride or were you just
going to pretend you were going for a ride
just pretend you were just going to pretend you were just going to pretend so
you put the keys in the car and you started it up right
okay now was that hard to do no
could could you reach the pedals
yeah how did you know which pedals to work
because i saw the pedals then i pushed the both pedals
mm-hmm and you figured out which one made the car go which one made the car
stop right
yeah so now you pulled out of the driveway now is your sister in the back at
this point or did she come out later
she was in the back she was in the back so what where did you think you were
going rocco
my sister wants to go to the beach
so i mom's asleep and you said i'll take you
all right now do you do you from your house do you know rocco how to get to the
beach
yeah all right so so you pulled out the car pulled out and you're are you in
traffic were
there other cars
you were you were pretty much on your own then not a not a lot of traffic yeah
how how long did you go
three miles three miles do you know how fast you were going
pretty slowly
pretty slowly yeah could you see over the steering wheel
yeah yeah
um and then the policeman stopped you how did you know there was a policeman
following you
i saw the lights in the mirror
you saw the lights in the mirror now did you know immediately what to do when
you saw the police
yeah so what what did you do then i pulled over
you pulled over and and the policeman comes over to the side of the car what
does he say to you
did he ask to see your license was was he surprised to see a little boy driving
the car
no was he nice to you yeah yeah and and then he took you down to the police
station
and what did they say to you there my papa was there your father was there at
that point
my grandfather your grandfather was there at that point and did they ask you
where your mom was
yeah yeah uh did did they didn't arrest you did they no no and they treated you
pretty well yeah yeah
well now what did you and your sister do when you were stopped by the police
you you were you surprised to see him
uh and and rocco uh have you learned anything from all of this yeah what did
you learn
i learned
well it's it's you learned that you probably should wait till you're a little
older to drive again don't
you think
okay do you think you'll be doing this anymore okay well it was certainly nice
to meet you and i'm glad
everything worked out all right okay okay rocko nice to have you here
we'll uh we'll do the station of information we'll be right back