public comment (calling names) >> thank you planning commissioners i'm dee and also to john sawyer for allowing two more weeks excuse me for changes to the urban forest matter of the plan i want to go on public record as the cannery in the coal mine that warned you thought matter of the plan at our direction planning now proposes some defines for a tree definition the existing document that you have contains an page 75 to 76 describes the tree canopy one of which the trees are a part 3 classes of vegetation were the tree layer represents the clarification and it derived vegetation layers with the tree polygon vegetation layer to covered by the canopy trees leaves and stems and dividing the area of the tree layer by the total area of the city since it's covered with vegetation a tree is higher than 8 foot in contrast the management plan defines a tree as any plant having a vertical trunk over 15 feet at all and anything less is considered not this defensive in definition is going to wreak havoc when the part of the master plan occurs unless the depiction of trees is consistent that is -

and my favorite of those failures i wrote with marika sawyer and john mulaney.old filipino woman -- [ laughter ] and she had joined the babysitter's club, not so much to have fun, but more out of financial necessity. >> seth: right. [ laughter ] >> and she did not get along with the gossiping tweens -- >> seth: right. >> --in the group. >> seth: and i remember -- you want to tell everybody who played the 65-year-old guatemalan lady? >> it was fred armisen. [ cheers and applause ] he did the best he could with the material. >> seth: absolutely. you've been incredibly prolific. you're 30 years old, four short story collections, two novels. what is the biggest difference, what are the advantages and disadvantages between writing fiction and writing sketch comedy for television? >> well, the biggest advantage to writing sketch comedy, especially for a great show like "snl," is you have access to these brilliant, talented actors that will elevate your mediocre material. so my trick, when i was writing for "snl", is if i was writing a sketch and the script was going p