 Hi, good afternoon. I had the pleasure of being the very first author and probably the only one so far that actually isn't published yet. So it's funny that the last time that I was on this stage was at a seminar for getting published. And so two years later, it's nice to be here to announce that it's actually happening. It would be a little bit more of a vindication if I actually had my book with me. But I am, like Jack said, I'm a local portrait photographer. And I specialize in performing arts, specifically comedians. And those are my kids anyway, so don't worry. It doesn't bother me. So anyway, I photograph my musicians and comedians. And I photographed San Francisco and nationwide international comedy scene for about 15 years. And I put together a book of a collection of my portraits, which will come out in September. I'd rather, pardon me, in the spring. Did they not have mine? Oh, did you grab mine? Anyway, I'll talk a little bit about it. So I was putting out a book. And in 2006, I met Paul Provenza as a comedian and also the creator of the movie, The Aristocrats. Thank you. And so what we did then is we decided to collaborate. And he would interview the comedians that I had photographed. And so we went back into a lot of the people that I had photographed. And then he brought a lot of other people to the table. And we've had a three-year collaboration of interviewing comedians and photographing them. So what I just wanted to do this evening, or this afternoon rather, is to go through and give a few examples of some of the quotes that arrive in the book. OK? So, people are such sheep. All it takes is one person to say, can you believe what he said? Doesn't it make you mad? And then it's, yeah, you're right. We are mad. I'm glad you reminded me. I almost forgot to be mad today. One of the things that we had to decide was the definition of a satirist, because we narrowed our focus to just a satirist as opposed to just the wider comedians. And there's sort of two levels of satirists that we determined is that there's the classic definition of a satirist who is someone who takes on the opinions of the people that he doesn't agree with, a la Stephen Colbert, or there's the truth to power satirists, like Bill Maher, who is essentially up there telling the truth. Here's another one of those. In America, we're a few other countries. Pardon me. In America, we're aware of a few other countries. There's one to the north that we're building a virtual fence against, lest they invade us with common sense and humanity and health care, Henry Rollins. The GOP is a big tent party. All manner of assholes are welcome in the tent. That was Janine. The best line I've heard about Barack Obama, somebody said Barack Obama is a man who's a credit to his races. There isn't any moral high ground in this country where racism is concerned. It's been our great sin, and despite all the songs I've written about it, it's not cured, Randy Newman. It's very strange. I'm Asian-American. I'm a woman. I'm queer. I'm so many different things that we don't hear in comedy. So I feel like I'm being revolutionary just by existing. Actually, satire sounds like some chick on Flavor Flaves show. If I was a stripper, that's what I'd call myself. I'd get up on the pole and dance around, and the announcer would go, come on, fellas, give it up for satire. I love my country. Maybe it's because I'm white and rich, but things have really been working out for me. Well, I'm technically not rich, but I do have a lot of shit I don't need that I refuse to share with others. And that feels solid. That's Maria Bamford. Hope is just faith-based denial. All the comedians I know have a bitterness, a fucking anger, a malcontent and madness about them, which, you know, they use for cash. I used to say that I was a communist just because it upset my family. I didn't have the courage to say I was a homosexual, and communist was the next most upsetting thing on the list, Tom Rhodes. My brother is, by nature, a would-be conservative, but he's always appreciated my passion. He just said, don't fuck up the show, though, OK? Don't get us fired. I said, don't worry. And boom, we're fired. I guess that's the beauty of coming from a British perspective. You have so much shame that you can initially reach out to Americans by saying, no, it's OK to be ashamed. It'll get better. Your empire will die, and you will just be left with the echo of what you've done. At a certain point, 25% of our economy is going to be satirical shows making fun of the country. Thank you very much.