Liberal Talk Radio Takes Off

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Do you watch TV?

Yes, I do. I use television as a complete and total escape hatch. TiVo has been the greatest thing that's ever happened to anybody.

TiVo is all one of my cousins talks about.

It's really all I can talk about, but I will refrain, because it's like people who talk about their pets. And I'm one of those losers, too. So I will try to refrain from both. But I watch the Sunday shows and I watch The Sopranos and I watch All My Children and One Life to Live and The OC. Those are the series I program TiVo to record. And then I watch Fox and CNN and some of those shows, just to see what they're lying about.

Do you watch any of the reality shows?

I have never been a fan. I don't care about The Apprentice or The Bachelor. I mean, anybody who is on TV dating is just weirder than shit. I'm like, "You know what? You are sad and sick, and if your life was interesting and if you were interesting, you would meet someone doing something interesting." Sadly, the message of the dating shows is: When you meet someone and they say "What have you been doing?" the answer is "Waiting for you." What a bad answer.

What have been the biggest influences on your comedy?

The Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church?

Yes. Very inspiring of comedy and outrage. You know, it's never been "I love this comedian" or "This person has inspired me to do comedy." It's always been more like "I can't believe this person who has been elected by the people is doing this. You've got to be kidding me." I was more the class cynic than the class clown.

I was wondering how you came to comedy.

Somebody just said, "You know what? You've got to take this someplace else, because we're not as bitter as you."

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