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

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

The reality is that if you want to be in a reality-based community, you've got to respect reality and that means calling it bad when you see the past ahead and it doesn't look good and acknowledging when it's going to work.

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

My favorite season is autumn, and Maine is lovely for that reason. In Maine, autumn begins on July 29. That's when you start building a fire in the fireplace and the leaves literally start falling from the trees. It is a cold and rugged and a beautiful place that reminds you with its many death traps - its painfully cold oceans, its sharp, jagged beaches, and perilous cliffsides - that nature doesn't care whether you live or die.