That I’m still having the same discussions about women in comedy as I was having 12 years ago. Are we funny? Will anyone watch us? Can I have my own sitcom?
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Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.
My biggest disappointment would be living with disappointment. What a burden to be shackled to. I would be truly disappointed if I didn’t (as the song says) pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.
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View profile →Five years ago, a concrete plug, a little bigger than a baseball, fell off a building on Hollywood Boulevard when I was riding in an open convertible. It shattered the windshield. It really shook me. I still have it on my mantel.
To the Scissor Sisters. Back in the day, I could be an absolute monster; I was a real asshole.
A Henry Darger painting. Sadly, I lost it in the divorce, but it was a great parting gift.
Getting older and dying.
It would definitely involve lots of sex. I would spend the afternoon having some crazy passionate declarative sex with my husband.
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