Not Only Do I Recommend Wendell Berry

I'm Very Hairy, And Men In Film And Tv Are No Longer Allowed To Be Hairy.

When I Was A Kid, I Lived In This Small Town Way Out In The Country. We Had Three Tv Channels And One Radio Station. I Couldn't Even Get My Hands On Good Comic Books. My Aunt, Who Is A Librarian, Gave Me Tolkien's "the Lord Of The Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "little House On The Prairie," And Lewis's "the Chronicles Of Narnia." They Were Such Incredible Treasures To Have In My Somewhat Mundane Country Life.

I Worked Mostly In Television Drama For My First Few Years. I Just Kept Guesting On Nypd Blues And Csi-like Stuff, So When I Started Getting Work In Comedy, A Lot Of People In The Business Would Say, 'oh - I Didn't Know You Did Comedy.'

People Keep Referring To Me As A Standup, And That Just Doesn't Sit Well With Me Because A Lot Of My Friends Are Standups And They're Brilliant At Writing Jokes, And I'm Not.

I Think The Whole Thing Is Kind Of Sad, Honestly, In The Same Way That Our Civilization - Particularly The Consumers Of Pop Culture - Has Grown So Used To An Emasculated, Bare-chested Leading Man That Something Like Simply Growing A Mustache Can Impress People.