I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.