JFK Jr. Rare TV Interview in 1998 (a year before his death)

It's mystery time though, he's the editor in chief of this excellent magazine, George, the largest political magazine in the country, he and the others at George have a new book that just came out today. The political book is very fun, very avant-garde, please welcome. John F. Kennedy Jr. Well, thank you for coming, we tried to keep it a secret, you did a very good job, well, thank you, thank you for coming. I know you don't normally do these kinds of shows, so it's exciting to have you here now. I know you. You're a New Yorker Jerry is moving to New York any advice there's a great soup place what's the service like these are bad tempered check it out.

I must tell you that you have my opinion in following mr. Seinfeld and the biggest night on television, they always tell you that in politics you have to watch who you follow the night, yeah, let me know you were, right? No, you weren't on Seinfeld, but you were pictured right at my elbow, thank you, yes. Were you in the famous contest episode? Yeah, that's funny because I hadn't seen the episode and I go out home in the morning and everyone's yelling across the street and I'm walking to work, you know? a district attorney then and people walk by their cars and honkey and I'm going to know what's going on here so I walk in and you know every art to say oh you know I saw you last night were you on the buddy side that we are? sighs, I said no, no, what was everyone talking about, so they explained it to me and then I had a trial and I walked in, I walked into court and the defendant was sitting there and he said you were on Seinfeld.

Sorry, he bows. Because of his lawyer, he becomes an actor, no wonder he failed a bar exam, can we back up for a second? Did you say you hadn't seen politics in your entire life? Do you think you'll ever run? Would you ever apply? It's just that some people oh, well, you know, other than people asking me if you were on Jerry Seinfeld's show, the second most frequently asked question, you know, I'm an editor of a political magazine, are you able to be in politics without actually being in it? . in politics, so it's like being vice president.

I guess I have a great time doing that and we all know that politics is a difficult profession these days, but I think it's very rewarding. Well, the magazine is fantastic. I know I read it. because it gives me very good ideas for jokes, I mean, sometimes you are in political magazines, everything is very dry, where do you all see it from a funny angle that generates sparks and everyone does interesting coverage? you always have people playing, yeah, like you, who was Dennis Rodman, what political figure was he, no, Charles Barkley, Oh, Berkeley, that's what he was, George Washington, George Washington and Harrison Ford, he was Abraham Lincoln, right , and Howard Stern was George Washington, well, there you have it. which there was a notable similarity there and I mean, we've actually always been, you know, trying to get you on the cover, you think?

Yes, who would? Yes, we have this, oh, I want, I would love to do, who do you do? Who do I think? It's very nice. It's charming. I hope someone has seen this. It's uh, I see that it's blowing people away. I'm not saying I opened up George and there's a naked photo of you in your own magazine, wait chocolate, we got the photo alright, you might not be wearing pants now if you were naked in the photo. Actually it wasn't there. Was. Had. Was. wearing pants and shoes you might have had Newt Gingrich Newt from the shoulders down.

I don't think anyone wants to. It was not. You know, everyone always says that no one reads the editors' letters and they read that one, so we. I'm going to say it worked for the moment, but now what if the Monica Lewinsky poem here explains? Oh, we have to do it. I guess we should, we should, but it turns out we have someone who sent us the Monica Lewinsky poem that she wrote. ninth grade actually no not in ninth grade when she was nine

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s old and I know I'm going to rot in hell forever for this, but can I maybe just give the sample, yeah, give a sample, okay, it was written.

The poem is a moving reflection on how I can be a delicious lunch, dinner or breakfast, if you're weird, she goes on to describe her cell phone. The date is a round, flat piece of dough with lots of toppings. I am the best friend of a mouse. make you say yum yum it's amazing how kids know at a young age what they're going to do here it's fascinating because it's cool it's not a reference book, you know, just look up something weird, it's a book with a list of celebrities, what? what is it? your celebrity political political what's your favorite what's your favorite well there's a lot of them I mean, you know, we basically tried to have a kind of political resource book that also had some fun stuff in there and so you know the whole deal. with politics is that people often think it's boring and boring and they don't really appreciate some of the drama or some of the story or some of the fun parts, so there's everything from code names of presidents to Jimmy Carter . 10 list of 10 favorite desserts he insisted on in Richard Nixon's protocol at state dinners which were the women which were the resident women women who ran for president who couldn't vote for themselves there were, you know, there's obviously there's lists of men who ran for president should not be able to vote for himself, but the woman who was going to accompany him was named Victoria Woodhull, she ran and for president in 1872 is no one that he knows about this, but she was a woman free.

She loved the candidate and she had two husbands and she got three thousand votes and one of her suitors was Cornelius Vanderbilt and before she ran for president she used to get stock advice from him and she opened her own brokerage house in New York and she did a murder so she was really a very modern woman long before her time, well, that's the fun thing, it makes you realize that there is nothing new, yes, well, everything that has been done here is tired, but it is very fun, just data strangers about various political figures, but Listen to his course, the book of political lists and, of course, Georgia magazine.

Thank you very much for coming. I want to talk to you for a minute before we do that. I want to thank our guests. Darrell Hammond. Thank you so much. Senator Live Tori. The spelling trick is. the movie opens Friday and, of course, Jackson. I want to thank you for putting up with us tonight. I mean, it's kind of hard to make jokes when you know terrible things are happening in the news and I think we've all been affected. I'm trying. to understand why so much, you know, I mean, for me, growing up in Massachusetts and the Kennedys are such a big part of my life as a kid, you know, I remember my mom crying when John and Caroline were at the funeral, you know, and it remains recorded. your mind and then when he came here and sat in the chair, I realized at what point I think my life would ever intersect with his, you know, and he really made an impression on everyone here, genuinely a good man, I mean, everyone. the Kennedy jokes that we've done over the

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s, he could have been nicer and nicer, the signed autographs said hello and then my wife, when I talked about it last night, you know and you realize there are people who you just wanted to see him grow old. just for fun because his life is very close to yours you meet people like him and princess diana you realize these people never did anything wrong whatever you saw them you smiled and felt happy for them and you wanted them to do it. have a good life, you know, and for those do you think someone has something more than you?, you leave why and then something tragic like this happens, so thank you for making the job easier tonight.

I like that that's doing the monologue. I said, how are you doing? start a monologue, but that's the job we have to do here and try to be silly and try to maybe cheer people up, but please don't think it's not on our minds because if it's on your minds, it's on ours too. minds, so I just want to say you know, I said a prayer and God bless him and he was a very, very nice man, that's all, good night everyone.