I was writing the previous blog entry while watching John Hodgman on The Daily Show. Hodgman appears occasionally on NPR's This American Life. He appeared on The Daily Show today to promote his new book, The Areas of My Expertise. I actually stopped writing the last entry, saved it, and then wrote this entry before I forgot what I was thinking.

John Hodgman is, I think I can safely say, the funniest human being alive. He came up -- without missing a beat -- with the most hilarious responses to Jon Stewart's questions, all perfectly deadpan. I'll post video as soon as I can.

Among the things in his book are "700 hobo names" (which is apparently a song), something that we've seen before on Boing Boing. In that instance, Boing Boing linked to a website that was drawing cartoons for each of the 700 hoboes chronicled in Hodgman's song.

The more I watched Hodgman during his brief appearance, the more I was completely stupified how perfect his timing was, and how quickly he came up with hilarious answers to Stewart's questions. Even Jon Stewart was cracking up, even though he was trying to play along.

I'm going to buy Hodgman's book now.