Lewis Black is one of my favorite comedians. I think that most comedians really aren't all that funny, especially the ones who seem to get offered TV sitcoms, but I love Lewis Black because so much about people just pisses him off and I can relate. He is the subject of 20 Questions in this month's Playboy (a truly good issue) and one of the questions they asked is whether after all this time he has trouble getting angry onstage. The actual Q&A is as follows:
PB - You're widely revered as the angriest comic in America. Have you ever had nights when you're just not in the mood to go up there and be pissed off?
LB - Never. That has never occurred. I swear to God. Never, ever. There's always something that happens during the day. I may be yelling that they don't know what to do with Social Security, but I'm really yelling about the fact that my AT&T cell phone doesn't get shit in a variety of zones. I've lost calls, and it's a pain in the ass.
Love this guy.
The other thing that makes this month's Playboy good is that they have a short piece by Bill Maher on religion. I'm not a huge Bill Maher fan but in the piece he writes a couple of paragraphs on each of several religious sites in America, Europe and Israel that he visited this past winter to see why people are religious. In the section on Judah, Israel, he comments on how new "lost" sections of the Bible keep being found:
"It seems we keep finding Bible outtakes like we find "new" Elvis and Tupac records. Now, I know religious Christians and Jews alike get their hair shirts in a bunch when you call the Bible a fairy tale, and they have a point - the Bible is actually an anthology of fairy tales, a kind of Reader's Digest collection of books written in different languages over thousands of years and then assembled and translated into American, just as God planned."
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