On Friday morning’s Red Eye, Greg Gutfeld paid tribute to Andrew Breitbart by playing a clip from the very first episode of the show, which first aired February 6, 2007.

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“What I want to say is about you,” Breitbart told Gutfeld in the pilot episode. “You said that you won’t have a lot of viewers. But you represent a lot of viewers like myself who have no discernible expertise on anything and I think that people will relate to you on that!” (Breitbart’s prediction was correct — RedEye‘s ratings are sometimes higher than many primetime shows on other networks).

After reviewing the retro clip, Gutfeld mused about his and Breitbart’s appearances. “I look like a raving drunk!” Gutfeld exclaimed. “He looks like the bass player of a Swedish rock band. He has the long hair — They haven’t gotten famous yet, so he hasn’t lost the weight.”

A panel member said that it looked like Breitbart should be playing a lute.

“I

said that to him once in Half Time, I said, he looked like a wandering minstrel!” riffed Red Eye ombudsman Andy Levy. “He should be talking in verse.”

“That was the interesting thing about Breitbart,” Gutfeld said. “There wasn’t anything like him in the conservative movement. I look at him as an evolutionary step from the merry pranksters doing and making change and almost creating or publishing events through action. Not writing things, but making things happen.”

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