triple check quadruple check one two three check please we roll and we're so roland hi everybody this is cathy and probably happens on the fourth saturday of every month and by some weird calendar problem the fourth saturday of december have our wonderful schedule who is here now you could tell that she's our scaled scheduler because she's ready to kill us all very because we we've discovered in the last year that our schedule we've had two deaths in and so anyway and so people sign up for it in advance and normally happen and music and all sorts of crazy wonderful things we just handed in to princeton t v for those of you don't know kathy improv is broadcast to princeton community television it's on every monday night at eight o'clock  every thursday at midnight so it's like kind of like like wednesday thursday at midnight but we just handed in our best of two thousand sixteen episodes so which means we pick little clips from the entire year of two thousand and sixteen and we put them together so you get two hours it from seven to ten except when i lose track of time and then we go to lunch which never happens and yeah so but so and that we have a whole bunch of you know wonderful players wonderful you know indian vocally vocalizing which was really great and just a really wonderful collection of stuff that we have at this the just one of the many things i'm drawing a blank of all the other oh wonderful crazy shirley temple thing going on and she came in and she did she did it exactly like shirley temple and so i just i found out that my mother was because surely topple then you know who knew anyway but i said oh ok i'm  our director ms gene amber god thank you now james not only works with me here but she is an unbelievably wonderful person and great collaborator to work with her work is so good and what we do is we do other gene were working with us and we were very pleased that she's here yes and of course we have mr john irving our founding member who's here in a room someplace he's you to pick up or i will talk about him a you want to marry michaels who does she's like the ed mcmahon of the time of the of the cafe improv and then she's also does the website you know and says that she and it's kind of a funny story because she was so embarrassed at all bad and old our website was up there we get all the like bones and chairs the stuff and that they they we interact with them on the day of the performance and then we also have a wherry larry who has been helping us for the last couple years he was also wonderful and he's also in a little little basket and we were painting the thing and and we were trying to keep his son firms crying too much and while we were painting the big you know you know of course it's a lot of long many years later so but yes and so john and i've been doing this for lion you just you see i have the right so and we have david when a grad who's been helping us out for the last six or seven months who is a wonderful sax player and his mother susan has been helping us out too which is a great a great big help and we also have simon simon here pam is here yes we have pam pam who is also helping us out with eric when they come out over take it over cameras and taken over putting stuff away we have christina and sign and helping out every now and so that's kind of what happens we always tell people that cap every cab and prop is a miracle that's a true blue spectacle because somehow you know my one of my favorite stories is the show used  on live so used to live in princeton t v and we had set up the entire thing the first show we had i had the whole thing set up i was here since like midnight setting all these wires up and we finally had the whole thing together and i was just went live and i took my hat off and  about program but we always say that every community needs to have to in order to be healthy has to have access to the works of individual people the works of individual artist straight from their heart to yours without going through various layers of marketing research which is what we normally hear because we always like to say sometimes people like to confuse advertising with art and ok but anyway so that's what the show is like and now we're going to start the show because we have special stuff for you tonight ok we're going to have special stuff and we have special artist here we're going to tour the red mike here eric come on joe you can help out here so i don't know i was going to start with you could you every looks like you're in such a good mood so i was going to start with something like really depressing so i don't know but why don't we try a song so it will start the night and i one of the songs that i had prepared is you know david bowie passed away this past about almost exactly a year ago right and david bowie i thought i was really what he called inspired by his last record because his last record meat all right there we go now we're going to bring up the first of our guests mr john irving oh and have you all been good little boys in grooves don't lie to me well ok fine you can lie to me because high as doug hey tom how are you doing very good doc well i've got a song for you and you know it do you know we've been doing this and it being the elves concert for coming on thirty years coming up and and that's caused me to kind of reflect back a little bit and notice that you know christmas has really changed for me over the years you know when you're when you're young it's just this you know magical time where anything is possible and you're just so excited for so many weeks and as you get  old you know some of that magic might wear off you might learn things you didn't really want to learn you might overhear things that you know take a little bit of the magic out of christmas and i think it's important that we recognize that christmas isn't always just magic and joy for everyone that in fact there are times when you know you kind of wish you hadn't grown up quite as much as you have and so i'd like to sing a song about that and  love would never dreamed that santa would be forgive me then i was young and but he was gone when  that he will load up all my but there are dreams that cannot be since volver hearing  yeah concert ok but you're not if you're not really aware of what's going to happen because we all know that there are there are things called fusion that we want to talk about the fusion of two very important movements that are happening together right now and have a very happy holiday season we want to see you back here and we've got a lot of work to do thank you very much good night