We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.