and jeff garland who played jeff green on the show, fabulous guy, funniest guy, he had an office next door to me. he said what are you going to do now. i said i'm thinking about doing some stand-up. he said you should film it. film the process of me going back after a ten year absence to do stand-up. and he said, and i'll direct it. i said you know, i don't want to do that. who needs a camera following me around. i don't like that idea. and i talked to lori about it. and she said no, you should do it i wasn't convinced. and then i started to think about it and i thought well, if they film the stuff on stage, that would be fine. it's the stuff that would be off the stage that i would have a problem with because it seemed really boring. what are they going to do. i will go to a dry cleaner, they will film me at the dry cleaner-- it was nothing. it would be boring. and i didn't like the whole idea of a camera following me around like that but then i thought suppose i made up some stuff. suppose i created a fictional kind of world where i was married, and i had a manager and jeff would pl