>> joaquin phoenix. he needs a role like that. he already had the weird beard. so now he just has to keep it for awhile. we had what might be a scene for the movie right here when your sound guy came over. you can vouch. he was having trouble get -- getting the earpiece on and i said, i don't have an ear. >> do you have part of an ear? >> what? >> do you have part of an ear? >> yeah. >> i look at it and there is only half an ear, beautiful. >> wow, look at that. >> i had to give up my dream of being a carpenter because the pencil falls out. >> the larger tragedy was you wanted to be an ear model. that didn't work out either, but we won't say that and it will bring you down and the interview will go to hell. let's talk about your comic. what was the insurance inspiration? >> i have other books, a memwior out now, my fourth. it puts me one up on churchill. and now i know why kissinger stopped at three. four may have been one too many. but i would go to the comic-con vengeses and see people over the course of a few days and they were into reading. none of them had