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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today, writing funny.

Comedy is about being honest. It can be a brutal honesty, but it's some way of telling a truth about people.

That's Bob Odenkirk, comedy writer, performer, actor, and one of us But it's some way of telling a truth about people.

That's Bob Odenkirk, comedy writer, performer, actor, and one of our guests today as we talk about the fine art of writing comedy.

Also, Megan Amram reimagines science for girly girls.

I would call this a feminist satirical science textbook, which, you know, there's a lot of them,

but I hope mine rises to the top.

And one of the highlights of any issue of the New Yorker, the cartoons, although the New Yorker has a more highbrow term for them.

And nowhere in the contract that's mentioned the word cartoon. It calls them idea drawings.

But first, Simon Rich.

He's barely 30 years old and already has a reputation as one of America's funniest writers.

He was one of the youngest ever sketchwriters for Saturday Night Live.

He sold film rights to Jason Reitman and worked as a staff writer for Pixar,

and he's just

released his sixth book, a collection of short stories called Spoiled Brats, which includes a story

about a woman who gives birth to a demon and copes by putting him on Ritalin.

The stories have to be experienced.

So here's Simon with the first one called Animals.

They buried my wife in a shoebox in Central Park.

I like to imagine that the funeral was respectful,

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