The following transcript of an "AOL Live" chat room is Copyright Warner Bros. 1997. Non-profit reproduction of this article is available here for informational purposes only. A brief description of the event is listed first and then the transcript of the session follows.described at the top of this file followed by the actual transcript. ======================== More about this Event: 06/12 Dr. Katz's Patient Reunion (Coliseum) Insomniacs Asylum and Warner Bros. Online Present: CyberTalk (TM)! We are pleased to bring you Dr. Katz's Patient Reunion on Thursday, 6/12 @ 5:00 pm/ET! We will be broadcasting LIVE from the Toyota Comedy Festival in NYC for Comedy Central. Chat with the funniest comics in the nation such as Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone, Joy Behar, Robert Schimmel, Dom Irrera, Richard Jeni, members of Saturday Night Live, "Dr." Jonathan Katz and others! So get your questions ready and talk to YOUR favorite comics LIVE from the Toyota Comedy Festival in NYC in Insomniacs Asylum's and Warner Bros. Online's CyberTalk (TM) on Thursday, 6/12 @ 5 pm/ET! ======================== Event Keyword: "Insomniacs" INSOM1: Copyright Warner Bros. 1997 OnlineHost: Good evening! Insomniacs Asylum Presents: CyberTalk (tm)! Tonight we are pleased to bring you a very special event: a patient reunion with Professional Therapist Dr. Jonathan Katz! Dr. Katz will be here along with several of his, well, most "normal" celebrity patients. Enjoy the fun! INSOM1: Okay people , buckle your seatbelts and prepare for Comedy Central, live, via computer, from Catch A Rising Star! Not good enough for you cynical cyber freaks? Well then, we've got stand ups, we've got comedy and we've got fudge. Let me explain the setting. I am your host, Craig Kelly, columnist on Comedy Central's web site (www.comedycentral.com) and I'm sitting next (not too close) to Bill Braudis and Ron Lynch and Dara will be typing for our guest and fielding your questions. So gear up and sharpen your pencils -- sheesh, I'm already sick of coming up with puns..... INSOM1: For the next 45 minutes we'll be asking the tough questions about Dr. Katz psychotherapy, and cartoon violence. INSOM1: Our first question comes from LY4JOB... Question: What was it like being a patient on Dr. Katz? INSOM1: The question goes to Bill Braudis, a three time patient of Dr. Katz (he has problems)... DrKatzReun: BILL: It's not unlike talking to any comic strip. A little bald guy is a little bald guy...I discovered that I can't talk to a real therapist. I had no answers to any questions, funny or otherwise.... INSOM1: From JOAN4858: Question: If cartoons are based on violence, why isn't anyone blown up on Dr. Katz? DrKatzReun: BILL: Who says cartoons are based on violence? Try opening your mind a little bit. There's a lot of internal pain on Dr. Katz, there's a lot of violence behind the scenes. Everyone suffers within. INSOM1: From JJ3445... Question: What about really crazy cartoon characters and why hasn't Daffy Duck appeared -- He's crazy? DrKatzReun: BILL: Because Dr. Katz isn't a quack. This show is based on reality. Animals don't talk! INSOM1: From CHRIS556.... Question: Frasier Crane, Bob Hartley or Dr. Katz: who's sexiest? DrKatzReun: That's our question? That couch is only used for one thing. Sex isn't it. Dr. Katz -- he squiggles. You figure it out. INSOM1: From JIMMY345... Question: I know it's a cartoon, but did you feel better afterwards? DrKatzReun: Only when the check is in the hand. Yeah, because you realize that no matter how screwed up you are, you're not short and bald. INSOM1: From BRETTLOC... Question: Do you go to a shrink in real life? DrKatzReun: You feel better, but I can't hear that music anymore, or I just snap. Certainly no one smaller than Jonathan, I'm into this size and shrink and bald business. INSOM1: From BETHMIL8.... Question: I read in a chat room that the pilot episode of the show Dr. Katz had a pet cat named Krazy Kat. True? DrKatzReun: I don't think he did.....No, you're probably feeling guilty for killing your cat. INSOM1: If you just joined us, we are broadcasting LIVE from the Toyota Comedy Festival In NYC at 'Catch A Rising Star!' Richard Jeni just walked by with his good friend Frank Quinn, the voice of Krazy Kat from the lost episode... INSOM1: Our next question comes from CWADOGGY... Question: Would this show be as funny if it weren't animated? DrKatzReun: It would have to squiggle. Everyone would have to squiggle individually. Otherwise, yes. INSOM1: From LUKE4565... Question: Have you ever seen your Dr. Katz character in the comic strip? DrKatzReun: Ron: No, but I have seen it in the crossword puzzle. Check your local paper to make sure. Call your local paper! INSOM1: Steven Wright did not just stop by the monitor. Repeat, DID NOT walk by! INSOM1: From BRUECKS6... Question: Will Ben ever, ever, ever get a date with Laura? DrKatzReun: Bill: She's actually a high-class hooker. And he's saving up. INSOM1: Comic Greg Fitzsimmons, another veteran of Dr. Katz's couch, is now here and willing to answer your questions. DrKatzReun: They have a very hot relationship off-camera. Once they're off-line. INSOM1: From BETTY... Question: Greg, what is your greatest neurosis? DrKatzReun: Fear of losing all my money. And food. I think it's an Irish thing. INSOM1: From G57688... Question: Who are some of the guests for the fourth season? DrKatzReun: Guests scheduled for fourth season include Todd Barry, Elayne Boosler, Marc Schiff, Mike Rowe, Don Gavin and Robert Schimmel. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steven Wright, Al Franken, Dom Irrera, Dave Attell, Bill Braudis, Lew Schneider, Jim Gaffigan, Bobby Slayton. INSOM1: From BrianOFe... Question: What non-comedians should appear on Dr. Katz's couch? DrKatzReun: Maybe Jonathan should be on the couch. He clearly has a co-dependent relationship with his son. He should go directly to co-de camp. He's gotta look into... he's clearly been stalking Laura for most of last season. He supports the common belief that most therapists are crazier than their patients. INSOM1: From TROUSERS: Question: Is the show improvised or scripted? DrKatzReun: It's both. When I did it, you stand in the booth for an hour and do your act. Then Jonathan comes in and you improvise...The editors are brilliant and they really retro-script -- they put everything in a compute and rearrange everything how they want it. It takes 4-6 weeks to put together. Which is preety good for animation. It was developed by the people who framed Nixon. I am way overdressed for this. I forgot it was online. I took a shower. INSOM1: From BOALSY... Question: Is the couch comfortable? INSOM1: [back with Bill] DrKatzReun: BILL: Squigglevision nauseates me! Watch it from two rooms away. Move your head quickly from left to right and you won't see the effect. INSOM1: From JIMHOLE.... Question: BILL: If everyone on the show is a comedian, are there fights on the set to see who gets the punchline? DrKatzReun: Everyone gets along. After every show everyone has a group hug. It's very loving. and everyone walks across some cold coals. Because hot is stupid. INSOM1: From JILLSY4... Question: I heard a rumor that the cast was holding out for $1 Million per episode each. What's the deal? DrKatzReun: BILL: We're grateful if any punchline happens, so we're willing to share. I leave most of my punchlines out in the car. It's two million. And they want to change their names to Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer. INSOM1: From LARRYLIE... Question: Can you change the animation if you don't like the way you're drawn? DrKatzReun: BILL: Since my animation looks better than me, I have no complaints. It is amazing how they can take very simple lines and make it look like someone. We're not talking about drugs..... Yes we are. INSOM1: From POPPIE749.... Question: Is every stand up comedian in need of analysis? Who most of all? DrKatzReun: BILL: All of them are in need of analysis. But most of all, everyone else needs it.. more than I do. INSOM1: We have time for one more question. From RiddleBoy..... Question: How has your career skyrocketed since you've been on? DrKatzReun: BILL: The questions are getting creepier. My friends can't come out in public anymore. I have a restraining order against my friends. It depends on what you mean by skyrocketed. You all know who I am. It skyrocketed, but, unfortunately, like the space shuttle, it exploded and fell to earth. My cousin called me up and said he saw the show. And then there's the hookers, the addiction to Zima.... and COMEDY CENTRAL ONLINE -- at www.comedycentral.com! INSOM1: We would like to thank comedy's hottest stars for joining us this evening LIVE from the Toyota Comedy Festival in NYC (At Catch A Rising Star) for Dr. Katz's Patient Reunion! Insomniacs Asylum will be open 24 hours a day. Online's hottest late night lounge is opening its doors to creatures of the daytime -- check it out at keyword: insomniacs. Rock N'Roll Summer launches in IA on 6/18. Chat with your favorite Warner Brothers TV show and Movies celebrities @ keyword: cybertalk. Every Wednesday night @ 9 pm/ET! Good night, everyone. See you online @ kw: warnerbros. INSOM1: Copyright 1997 Warner Bros.