when you sit there and they just put you in a room and they're like,"you're not coming out until you have 20 jokes and we're going to come back in 40 minutes," your brain just starts doing math really quickly. Honestly, the first year I knew I wanted to do this [write a book] after I leftand the first year was spent just trying to retrain my brain to do this very long-form writing.
I would write a lot of jokes on the show that would be like big swing jokes. Sometimes they would be about as mean as Jimmy Fallon would ever get or they would be political and things like that. If I had any of them in this book, a 12-year-old kid would be like"What?" I wrote it [the book] because I'm imagining when I was a kid... You get handed books by teachers and most of them would be like,"This isn't fun.
Yeah, I remember the first time I read a Harry Potter book and I was like,"Oh, this is just right in the vein." [I also love] the Rick RiordanA History of Knowledge I'd imagine that late-night has a very structured schedule on how to operate. Was there anything that you applied from your time in writing for late-night to your writing process with this?