People ask me do I ever fear I’ll wake up one morning and not be funny. The answer is no because being funny is not something you put on like a shirt when you wake up so suddenly you can’t find the shirt. You simply are funny or you’re not. If you are, you are, and it’s not a thing or a temporary madness you can lose. If I woke up and was not funny, I wouldn’t be me. This does not mean you can’t wake up in a bad mood, hating the world, angry at people’s stupidity, raging at the empty universe, which I confess I do on schedule every morning, but it serves to bring out my humor, not erase it. Like Bertrand Russell, I feel a great sadness for the human race. Unlike Bertrand Russell, I can’t do long division. And maybe I can’t transmute my suffering into great art or great philosophy, but I ...