Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

I should also say, in general, I just drank a lot. I shouldn't characterize it as "to get the courage to perform." It was just an in-general nighttime activity. It definitely made it easier when I started doing stand-up. It was just much simpler to do a couple of shots. It made my nerves go away, for the most part. It just was something I sort of relied on for about the first four years.

Is being an idiot like being high all the time?

The teabaggers - do I know every single one of them? No. Can I see that there's a lot of racist bullshit going on? Absolutely. Would it have been welcome to see more of these "anti-government" types around after the stolen election? It would have been good to see it. I wouldn't have liked to see them with their immigrant-bashing and their stupid signs.

I don't know who you're referring to exactly who said, 'What has Iraq done to us?'