Non-Fiction Articles
How Lorne Michaels’s Biographer Got Him on the Record
Originally appeared on Vanity Fair, Feb 18, 2025
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 on August 7, 2023 in The New Yorker
Originally appeared on Vulture, Jan 22, 2020
A Comedy Education From Late Legend Buck Henry
Originally appeared on Vulture, Jan 10, 2020
John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons”
Originally appeared in The New Yorker, May 2021
Justine Bateman Has Some Thoughts on the Fame Cycle… and Geoffrey Owens Working at Trader Joe’s
Originally appeared in Vanity Fair, October 2, 2018
Originally appeared in The New York Times, August 11, 2016
Bill Hader and Fred Armisen’s Fake Yacht Rock Band Just Got a Real Music Video
Originally appeared in Esquire, December 2015
David Spade on Why He Turned Down the Chance to Replace Letterman
Originally appeared in Esquire, November 2015
The Truth: The Redemption of The Game Author Neil Strauss
Originally appeared in GQ, October, 2015
Tom Scharpling Interview: ‘The Best Show,’ Death, Comedy And Radio (Not Necessarily In That Order)
Originally appeared in Dangerous Minds, July 9, 2015
Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 Concept Album and 1973 Film)
Originally appeared in The Donald P. McMahon Project, March, 2015
Originally appeared on Vulture, Dec 17, 2014
18 Things You Learn After Interviewing 80 or So Comedy Writers
Originally appeared on Vulture, June 24, 2014
Screwed In Times Square With Josh Alan Friedman
Originally appeared on DangerousMinds, June 18, 2014
Everything’s Turning Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals
Originally appeared on Dangerous Minds, November 2013
Book Review: Patton Oswalt’s Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Originally appeared in The Washington Post, January 28, 2011
Canned Laughter: A History Reconstructed – An Interview with Ben Glenn II, Television Historian
Originally appeared on ParisReview.com, July 20, 2010
Quigley R. Gomez, The Idiot Savant of Stand-Up: An Oral History
Originally appeared in Vice Magazine, April 1, 2010
Over the Edge: An Oral History
Originally appeared in Vice Magazine, September 2009
Originally appeared in The Believer, September 2008
Q&A: Steve Cohen, “The Millionaires’ Magician”
Originally appeared on Vanityfair.com, December 12, 2008
Q&A: Is Blues Music on the Verge of Extinction?
Originally appeared on Vanityfair.com, November 12, 2008
A Spoonful of Mojo to Go: A Primer on Early Blues
Originally appeared in GQ, July 2005
Originally appeared in Heeb, June 2005
Originally appeared on McSweeney's, July 20, 2001
Ladies and Gentlemen, Paul Lynde!
Originally appeared on Salon, August 23, 2005
Da Elliott Code:
An Interview with Chris Elliott
Originally appeared on VanityFair.com, May 28, 2005
The Squid Kid:
An Interview with Noah Baumbach
Originally appeared on VanityFair.com, June 3, 2005
