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Hello, I'm here today with Dave Barry, and we're going to talk about humor, Dave's life,

and Dave's career.

My first question about humor has to do with YouTube.

So a lot of the funny things you have written rather than doing stand-up, and now there's

YouTube as a kind of competitor to written humor.

How has that changed what readers are looking for and what new constraints does that put

on you?

Well, the second part is easy.

None for me.

I'm too old to change.

I basically do what I've always done.

I do think YouTube and the internet in general have radically changed the humor industry, especially

for younger audiences, which are much more oriented towards memey things that they see.

Other people look at shorter things, shorter bits, things that require a lot of inside

and knowledge, which everybody seems to have now thanks to the internet.

And I mean, if I can extend it to not just YouTube, but Twitter and Instagram and Facebook

and everything happens so fast and everything builds on everything else so quickly and things

...