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From my one-bedroom efficiency apartment in New York City, this is obscure.

Season four in American tragedy, I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, and literary,

mansplainer-in-chief Michael Ian Black, operating on, I want to say, and I don't know if this is exact, but if not,

it's very close, operating on zero minutes of sleep last evening. I have been suffering low

these many days and about three days now from just atrocious

insomnia. And I can't quite pinpoint the reason last night. However, I did some foolish things,

which no doubt led to my insomnia, but they were in service of a higher cause, which is my

occupation. We taped an episode of Have I Got News for you last night, and as I so often

do when we're taping, because the tapings are two, two and a half hours long, they're unscripted,

and you sort of have to stay awake. And that's not always

easy. I don't mean that I'm falling asleep, but, but the brain can become a little fatigued

during that amount of time. And so I typically have an energy drink just off camera. And I sip it between commercials. And man, that energy drink

last night hit me like a freight train. And I knew when I walked off set that it was going to be

a rough evening because I was just hyped on caffeine. And because I think it was a pretty good show and then previous to

that before the taping I had three cups of tea and I also didn't eat very much so I was

operating on an empty stomach and a lot of caffeine now all that being said interestingly

I did one of those 23 and Me tests years ago.

And before everybody's all worried about the privacy thing, I thought, oh, this sounds like

fun, let me do this.

Well, it turns out that I have a mutation.

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