From a very selfish point of view, I'm enchanted by the idea that a politician can come along and speak simply and clearly and truthfully to an electorate as though they are grown-ups and to feel the electorate respond to that.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.