I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

In the winters, I enrolled in the hotel management program at Cornell University. I naively thought that I knew something about sleight-of-hand, entertainment and food, and that would be all I needed.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is the level of difficulty or ease, and that may vary.