Writing a Book, You Write a Joke in Socks

"i pitched the book almost exactly two years ago and sold it, and then thought like, man, i i, i don't know if i have the time to do this," he says. "It was like i was just in my office alone at home, pounding away." He's always been a rules dork: "I would line up immediately when the teacher sait, ok, everybody line up,. And then i would look around at the other kids, like, what are you doing? What are you doing?"