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We Grew Up As This Family Of Deniers. And People Who Knew Us For Years Were Stunned When "the Great Santini" Came Out Because We Had This Appearance Of Being This Happy, Large, Smiling Family. We Were Taught To Smile, Put The Best Face Forward. And So When The Book Ended Up - Dad Swatting Us Around The Room, No One Believed Me.

It Seems That's Where Bill Clinton Came In Last Night Because He Told This Long Story About How They Met [with Hillary Clinton], How He Courted Her, How He Bought A House To Convince Her, I Think After The Third Proposal, To Actually Marry Him. And He Talked About Her Activism And Her Commitment And Everything. And It Was As If He Could Tell The Narrative In A Way That She Couldn't.

I Was Thinking About Comedy And How Comedy In Many Ways Opens Us Up To Ideas And Really Being Influenced By Richard Pryor And Sort Of The Way He Would Use Comedy To Really Speak About Larger Social Issues.

An Interesting Difference Between African-american Humor And Jewish Humor, In It's Kind Of Basic Or Maybe Most Austere Type Form Is, African-american Humor, Some Of It Comes Out Of Playing The Dozens In Which You Insult The Other Person Or Insult The Other Person's Mother, And So Much Of Jewish Humor Is Like, You're Insulting Yourself. It's Totally Self-deprecating.

I've Never Seen Radio As The Minor Leagues, Where I'm Just Really Preparing To Be In The Show That Really Counts, Namely, Television, Which Is, I Think, What People Often Assume. I've Never Felt That Way.