Ira Today:
“My attitude has always been that the audience is sophisticated enough to know the difference between someone who’s on the show to be funny and the actual reporting, where we go into the field and do interviews and very rigorously try to define what is happening in a traditional journalistic way.”
He pauses, then adds that he has asked Sedaris if his stories are true, and the humorist always answers: “They are true enough for you.”