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While Editors And Newspaper Owners Currently Fret Over Shrinking Readership And Lost Profits, They Do The One Thing That Insures Cutting Their Own Throats; They Keep Reducing Space For The One Feature That Attracts New Young Readers In The First Place; The Comic Strips.

For Me, Comedy Is A Day-to-day Report On The Human Condition. It's What's Happening Right Now. I Get Maybe 20 Minutes Of My Act Straight From The Newspaper.

I Always Had A Running Commentary In My Head That Was Extremely Funny And Off-center, But I Never Said It To Anyone.

We've Seen The Uproars Around The World Concerning Cartoons Depicting The Prophet Mohammad. Anyone Who Does Not Think Comic Strips Are Relevant Never Had A Fatwa Put On Him/her For Drawing A Picture.

It Doesn't Bother Me That I'm Not A Household Word On The East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm So Popular In These Cities Where You've Never Imagined An East Coast Comedian Working.