Q&A: John Hodgman on fame and why he's not faking it anymore
by Chris Barton, Los Angeles Times
Dec 04, 2019
3 minutes
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Whether you first saw him on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" or as the rumpled personification of a PC in a series of computer commercials, John Hodgman is not quite who you think.
He still specializes in an oddball brand of comedy on display in his list-driven books of invented facts, starting with 2005's "The Areas of My Expertise." But his career began in a much quieter way at a New York literary agency, where he worked as an assistant and an agent before
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