Word: ve
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...chapters in your book skewers the literary-party scene. Have you been to any lately? No, the only thing I've ever been to - and it's not quite the same thing - is years ago, I went to a sort of charity event for the New Yorker at a supper club in Chelsea or something. There were some actresses, authors, various people. If you were to make a lazy stereotype of a New Yorker reader, it was that kind of crowd...
...Paul Rudd? His review was something along the lines of, "One of the funniest books I've ever skimmed!" That was one of those things where the publishers were very excited - "Oh, he's got some celebrity friends, and that'll look good on the jacket." Literally, I must have gotten three or four lists of like, "Hey, you were in a movie with Jack Black. Can you get Jack to write something?" And I was like, c'mon, let's not go overboard here. They were pushing me to get as many celebrity names as possible...
...read that you've been doing stand-up since you were a teenager. The very first time I ever went onstage was the week before my 18th birthday. It was literally the worst thing you could ever imagine happening. I mean, if you saw it in a movie, you wouldn't believe it. It was just the greatest set ever; I mean I was f___ing killing. And I even said, "The red light's on - I gotta go," and people were like, "NOOO! STAY!" So I finished and stepped off the stage and thought, Wow! I'm a genius...
What do you imagine will happen in the movie? Trying to imagine what [show producers] Mitch Hurwitz and Jim Vallely have up their sleeves? That's crazy. Whatever I come up with will be not nearly as funny or creative as what they've come up with...
...being introduced in the 1930s. Women must have choices, they say. "We're getting to the point where people are saying, 'For God's sake, anything that will stop this has got to be [available],' " says Anna Forbes, deputy director of the Washington-based Global Campaign for Microbicides. "We've paid the price in lives...