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How
to Lose Friends & Alienate People
 My agent sent me a script with the unlikely title, ''How
to Lose Friends & Alienate People.'' I knew it was
something special before I finished the first page.
By page ten, I had to keep myself from calling my agent
to tell him to get me a meeting. I did call him once
I finished the script, as my initial excitement remained
undiminished. The script was fresh and funny and smart,
and totally suited to my sensibilities. 
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Kurt
Vonnegut: American Made
 In
March of 1982, PBS aired my first film, The
Marx Brothers in a Nutshell. Soon after that
broadcast, I wrote a letter to author Kurt Vonnegut
in New York, telling him that I made the Marx
Brothers film because I was a big fan of theirs.
I told Vonnegut I was also a big fan of his, and
wanted to make a film about him. I asked if he'd
be interested....
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Dick
Gregory: The Color of Funny
 Until
the early1960's, black standup comics played in
black clubs to black audiences. White comedians
played in white clubs to white audiences. Dick
Gregory was the first black comic to break the
color barrier.
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