No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

In 1996 he served as the conservative commentator in the point-counterpoint segment of 60 Minutes. He recounts that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a volte-face. Y.

In the United Kingdom he is known as the face of a long-running series of television advertisements for British Airways in the 1990s. This was preceded on September 21 2010 by Don't Vote!-It Just Encourages the Bastards and on September 1 2009 Driving Like Crazy with a reprint edition publiP. J. O'Rourked on May 11 2010.