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Oh, that was amazing! It was a lot of fun because you just think ‘What is the weirdest, filthiest idea I can come up with’ and then you write it as seriously as possible. It’s like ‘A human hedgehog burrows into a family’s home’ and you have to write it as if you were a real New York Times reporter. That was always a lot of fun. The weirder the story that they liked the prouder you were that you wrote it in their style. From there I guess the next high profile gig is writing the headlines for the Post. (Laughs) I don’t have that good of an imagination. That would be a little too far fetched for me. homework. MAD, Cracked, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and the occasional Playboy when I could sneak that past my dad. I liked the articles… you know, with the naked girls. You’ve written for both MAD and Cracked, did you grow up reading those magazines? Oh yeah, I had all of the magazines I shouldn’t be reading that I was reading instead of doing How did you first get into comedy? I was finishing up college at William Paterson University and I really didn’t want to get a job. The idea of working for a living was February 2015 Article Index Next Article 37