I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.
I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.
When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'
