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Satire Is An Art Best Practiced Behind The Back Of The Intended Target. I Think Inviting Politicians On A Satirical Show Becomes A Very Big Trap. Because One Of Two Things Happen: Either You Have To Kind Of Unsharpen Your Fangs Because You Can't Be Quite As Cruel To People To Their Face As You Are Behind Their Backs... Or You Don't Defang, And Those Guests Get The Word And They Stop Coming.

I Couldn't Help But Be Struck That This Guy I Had Thought Was The Embodiment Of Everything Wrong With American Politics, A Lot Of His Domestic Policy Was Mind-numbingly, Head-spinningly To The Left Of Obama's. It Was Under Nixon That The Epa Was Created. It Was Under Nixon That Osha Was Created. Under Nixon That The Clean Air And Clean Water Acts Were Passed.

I Was A Political Science Major.

The Act Of Getting Married, Stripped Of The Necessity To Have A Secure Setting To Raise Children, Seems To Me No Less Grim Than Registering Your Emotions With The Government.

My Parents Didn't Want Me To Be A Regular In A Series. I Was A Working Actor From Time To Time But They Thought Was A Little Too Much Being A Star Of A Series. They Wanted Me To Have A Slightly More Normal Childhood.