CG: It’s the best. It’s such a strange show but being with someone who’s there every step of the way is good because I think it would be completely impossible for someone to understand who hasn’t seen all the ups and downs with it. But there is also the thing where sometimes we’ll be talking about work stuff at home and I’m just like all I want to do is just sit at home on my couch and not be in the office. Can I please just watch a grim documentary with my fiancée?

 

CD: I just want to watch hour twelve of this World War II documentary.

 

CG: Then there are so many graphic images of Japanese soldiers’ brains leaking into the Pacific Ocean that she has to get up and walk away while I just stare at it expressionless like a serial killer.

 

CD: This is the traditional last question for all Wag’s Revue interviews. A ‘wag’ is a sort of wit, a merry, droll jokester. Who is your favorite wag — from your life, history, or literature — and why?

 

CG: A merry, droll jokester? Oh, Jesus. Does every comedian make fun of that question in their answer? I’m not one to judge. I just find that phrasing to be particularly amazing and very much what I expected when I was told this was an interview for a literary journal. But I’m glad to be onboard. Hopefully this will class me up and I won’t drag the journal down.

 

To me, it’s probably not surprising to say that I was obsessed with Andy Kaufman when I was a kid. When you talk about jokester, there’s a guy who told jokes onstage but he also told them on the streets; he made his whole life a joke. He went through years of doing things that he insisted weren’t a joke that were a joke.