I Exaggerate

While I waited for a taxi, he waited for his limo. He eventually sauntered over, removed his Ray-Bans, leaned into me, and in his inimitable delivery confided, “Ya know . . . just because we hung out for a few days doesn’t mean we’re gonna be friends.” I burst out laughing, thinking to myself, Oh, that Steve Martin. He is so funny! I did not see him or hear from him again for several years.

Howard Stern didn’t ask a single embarrassing question except this one: “Did you ever get into Jan Hooks’s pants?” Jan was a fellow cast member on SNL whom I had dated for a few years. I responded, “Yes, I did, and they were very tight on me,”