When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
Retro looking stuff but a lot of these guys doing these shows are my age or younger. I was just disgusted. I hated being around that kind of thing. Not that it affected what I did because when it comes down to it I was doing my own show.
Johnny was the very first book I did.
Usually when I get a letter from a parent it's because they buy my stuff. I don't really get a whole lot of negative response in general.
Some robot who never made me laugh didn't think was funny or didn't think the audience would understand. I guess that's television.
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.