I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.
I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.
As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
I'm on the Internet a lot more than I watch TV and most everybody I know is, and yet if you watch most late-night talk shows, it's as if it doesn't even exist.
I love doing talk shows.
There is plenty of television. There are plenty of talk shows. There are plenty of comedians. But there is not plenty of worship of the true and living God.
Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.
To me, talk shows are those things during the middle of the afternoon where the underbelly of society is made to look like Middle America.
You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.
I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
