After facing an existential crisis in the repetitive, soul-numbing world of television sitcom writing, Andy Borowitz took advantage of that new-fangled Internet to launch his own satirical news site, The Borowitz Report. He’s since become a regular source of biting (mostly) left-wing humor and commentary. He discusses the origins of satirical thinking, its relationship to the truth, and why the two are often indistinguishable from one another.

Andy’s conversation with Paul Provenza is in the book.