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  • All right, folks were back.

  • Danny Aiello coming up.

  • We're gonna perform great show all around.

  • But first, ladies and gentlemen, from time to time we hear it late night Feel the need to remind ourselves what is truly important in this life.

  • Isn't that right?

  • That is exactly right, Conan.

  • And you know, there's no better way to get this kind of message across then with a fable.

  • Exactly.

  • Good point, Andy.

  • So, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr Nipsey Russell as that's right.

  • That's right.

  • As there's more as he reads a story from his very own book, Nip sees fables.

  • Thank you.

  • Phoning.

  • And the fable that I'm presenting tonight is entitled The Turtle who thought he waas a corn muffin.

  • And it goes like this once upon a time on the shores of a freshwater pond.

  • Then lived a turtle who thought he was a corn muffin.

  • What?

  • Son?

  • You've been sitting in the nest all day.

  • Why don't you go out and swim with the other turtles?

  • I am not a turtle.

  • I'm a corn muffin.

  • Did you hear that?

  • Mother boy thinks he's a corn muffin.

  • Well, he's the dengue gist looking corn muffin I've ever seen.

  • Look, I don't know who you are or why I'm here, but I could tell you this.

  • From this day forth, I will spend every waking second of my life searching the globe for my riel family.

  • And so our little friends started crawling.

  • I can tell you.

  • He crawled around the world from the magical streams of Profit Valley through the young young trees on Animal Mount and all the way over to Google Falls in the flipper T Plop hollow.

  • And then one day, just as he was about to give up, he stumbled across Dingell's Bakery, a tiny moment pop place on a quiet, sunny street.

  • And in there, a great surprise awaited our little friend Mama.

  • Daddy!

  • Oh, Mama, your skin.

  • It's still so soft and pretty.

  • And Daddy, Daddy, you're still holding down the fort.

  • Look at you and little Ronnie.

  • You're not so little anymore.

  • Oh, I can't believe it.

  • Look at us.

  • A family.

  • Oh, and just then in two nickels, Bakery walked a tall, dark and very handsome policemen.

  • Okay?

  • Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • Good morning.

  • I like a corn muffin.

  • Please.

  • This is no corn muffin.

  • This is a turtle I'm telling you, this is a turtle.

  • I asked for a corn muffin.

  • A corn muffin, not a turtle.

  • This is a turtle.

  • And the moral of the fable is when you go into a bakery, make sure it is not run by a stupid thank you very much.

  • A terrific thank you.

  • It's a beautiful fable.

  • I hope we all learn something.

  • We'll take a break.

  • We'll be right back with Danny Aiello.

  • Stick around.

All right, folks were back.

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