Alan Alda: The 87-Year-Old Legend on M*A*S*H, The West Wing, and Building Chemistry Using Humor and Brutal Honesty
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
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The Importance of Being Funny
I know that there was a, I think it's fair to call it a pretty pivotal moment in your life in high school. You had a, there was a priest who sounds like he was quite sort of liberal and encouraging. And encourage you and your friends to pursue your kind of comedy writing and your writing. Were you attracted to comedy from an early age? Did you think of yourself as somebody who wanted to pursue dramatic characters or comedic characters or everything? "I enjoyed being funny and making people laugh"
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