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...Late Late Show has only been a U.S. citizen for a year and a half, but he has belonged here all his life. His new memoir, American on Purpose details Fergson's long, tumultuous, occasionally unrequited love affair with the country he now calls home. The affable talk show host writes honestly about America, Scotland, alcoholism and love. It's all there, even the part about killer ducks. That's right, killer ducks. (See TIME's Top 10 Late Night Gags...
...student of late night television. I don't really understand it, I just do my own show. I get up and just rant about whatever turned up that day. It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy...
...describe doing stand-up for the first time and it sounds like an absolutely horrible experience. How are you drawn to something that also at the same time makes you so terrified? I think you have to talk to Dostoevsky or Carl Jung or someone more qualified for that answer. I don't know. Maybe because it's a challenge? Maybe it's some kind of low level search for grace? Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that...
...between the aisles of a palm-orchard.” For the next eight years, Vollmann completed “Imperial” doing precisely that. His interests are equally topological and sociological: returns to Imperial not just to research the exact condition of the New River, but to talk to the sad-looking prostitutes one is bound to find along the border as well...
...heard in a dream. “Crossing the river into California, giving down on the reservation’s wide green and yellow bottomlands, I received this greeting: WELCOME TO PARADISE CASINO. I don’t know if you’ll find anybody who wants to talk, said the girl at the convenience store. How about you? Nope...