ANY COMMENTS ON THE BUSH PRESIDENCY THUS FAR?

John Warner: Blurg.

Kevin Guifoile: I like the hats. I think any president who can bring fashionable new headgear to the Washington elite is doing okay.

WHY'D YOU WRITE THE BOOK?

JW: Well, in short because they asked us and it sounded like fun, so we said 'yes.' Slightly longer version is that Mike Colton from Modern Humorist took an idea for a book based on some work Kevin and I did during the convention to Crown with whom they had a two book deal (the 2nd book will be released in the fall). Crown was interested in the pitch and asked if we could do it in three weeks and--not really knowing any better--we said 'yes'. We started the weekend after Bush was declared the winner and delivered the manuscript on January 4th.

KG: The timetable was such that there wasn't really any time to think about it. Even if we hadn't been sure we wanted to write the book, we would have had to start writing it anyway because by the time we decided we wanted to do it, there wouldn't have been time to pull it off. We wrote the book in much the same way you'd save a toddler from the path of an oncoming train. But funnier.

HOW WAS IT WORKING TOGETHER, SHARING AUTHORSHIP?

JW: It actually works out perfectly for several reasons. We'd done some work together before (the aforementioned diaries and 'The Britney Papers' and while the writing on those projects was separate (i.e., John would do the diary one day, Kevin the next,) we found our sensibilities for what's funny are pretty similar. For the book, we had to trade stuff around more since everything was written in George's hand (Kevin is George's handwriting and did the drawings) so that required more coordination, but it also eases some burden knowing that Kevin is writing away even when I'm watching Buffy.

KG: Basically I wrote the book and John wrote episode recaps for all the Buffys I missed. 'Buffy and Riley had a fight. Willow finally perfected her sunshine spells.' That sort of thing.

DESCRIBE THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK -- THE JOKES AND DRAWINGS -- A BIT MORE.

KG: The central gag is that the President is nine years old and he's surrounded by all of these grown-ups: Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, CondiRice, etc. I should clarify that: He has the experiences of a 50-something-year-old, but his methods of expressing himself are more like a child's. And he's completely unconcerned with weighty matters of state. Some of the pages are homework assignments George has been given to help him prepare to be leader of the free world. Some are letters to the eight-year-old pen pal (Hector) in Mexico that Condoleezza Rice has set him up with so he can learn about foreign affairs. There are also memos to his staff which are always accompanied with crayon drawings of Barbra Streisand or cool military moonbases or his new invention: 'The Executionator'. The humor is as much about pop-culture as it is politics: One of George's letters to his pen pal is all about how much he loves Jerry Orbach. I don't remember why. We just thought that was really funny.