I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.

I felt that, as time went on, an audience gets to know you and in a weird way, you kind of feel like you get to know the audience a little bit. When I'm doing stand-up gigs now, I feel like I'm doing gigs in front of people I know. I think that's the result of doing late-night shows for so long.

There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real, from the waves on the sea to wisps of wind blowing in the characters' hair. The feeling I get watching that scene is why I fly - just for that feeling.

I'm hooked on email. That's right, kids, I'm one of you.

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?