I Mean, Dad's - You

You Know, How Am I Leading My Own Life? What Am I Denying? Since I Brought Such Great Powers Of Denial Into My Adult Life, What Am I Not Doing As A Husband? What Am I Not Doing As A Father? The Whole Thing Started Unraveling With Me That Once I Kept It Up Close To The Chest, I Could Hold It All In, But Once I Started Letting It Out, It All Started Coming Out.

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.

All My Brothers And Sisters Have Stories About Dad Like This. I Remember, When My Sister Was About To Beat Him In Checkers For The First Time, He Knocked The Board Over.

When We Spoke, Gene Wilder Had Just Written A Memoir Called "kiss Me Like A Stranger." The Title Was Suggested By His Late Wife Gilda Radner Three Weeks Before She Died In 1989.

I Know That Everyone Who Listens To Radio Creates You In A Visual Image That They Need You To Have. Whatever That Is, I Thought, Let Them Have It. Let Me Be Who The Listener Needs Me To Be And Let Me Not Contradict That With The Reality Of My Photograph And Risk Disappointing Them.