Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
Meryl Streep belongs on anybody's list of greats.
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.