(non-fiction)

The Grand Master of Slime

(Originally appeared in the The New Yorker)

Kevin Nealon Is Hiking and Laughing and Drawing

(Originally appeared in the The New Yorker)

Why My Favorite Character in The Breakfast Club Is the Janitor

(Originally appeared in the AARP Arrow)

Mike Judge’s Secret Art of Satire

(Originally appeared The New Yorker)

‘We Weren’t Concerned With Making Anyone But Ourselves Laugh’

Monty Python’s Terry Jones on how the legendary group’s work was almost lost to history.

(Originally appeared on Vulture)

A Comedy Education From Late Legend Buck Henry

(Originally appeared on Vulture)

John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”

(Originally appeared in The New Yorker)

Bruce Jay Friedman: An Interview

Justine Bateman Has Some Thoughts on the Fame Cycle… and Geoffrey Owens Working at Trader Joe’s

(Originally appeared in Vanity Fair)

O.C.D. in N.Y.C.

(Originally appeared in The New York Times)