How Cool Was This?
Friend of the show John Hodgman at the Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner on Friday night.
Hodgman shows precisely why he’s a genius: he learned. Rather than doing the same tired jokes about the same politicians that manages to piss off someone somehow and force the White House into an awkward situation, he completely changes the game. If you were offended, it’s because it was intellectually over your head. What’s Fox News going to do, slap the “elitist” tag on him? He already did! He wears it proudly! THAT’S HIS SCHTICK!!
This morning, Hodgman clarified his argument a little more.
ON THE SUBJECT OF JOCK v. NERD, look: I don’t want to make too much of this.
OF COURSE I was being somewhat reductive for the sake of comedy.
I adore him. He’s so wonderful.
I think he’s the only guest to have intimidated me. He’s so quick and unforgiving. I was scared going into a few others, but no one else made me fear for saying the wrong thing.