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John Hodgman and the Trappings of Fame

10/25/2014

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PictureHodgman, before his mustache phase
Let’s say that 10 billion people have lived since March 9, 1934, the day (I needn’t tell you) Yuri Gargarin was born. Of those 10 billion, roughly 517 have, like Yuri, traveled in space. That is 0.00000000517% of the population. The rest of us have been stuck here gazing up at the stars.

Almost as few of us have been in orbit as have visited an Emmy Award gift lounge. This is a real thing. I first heard of them on Tuesday night at John Hodgman’s “Tonight!” at Second City's Up Comedy Theater. (The show may have been called, “I Stole Your Dad.” It was not clear.) The gift lounge is where already wealthy celebrities receive free luxury items just for being celebrities. Must be nice.

John Hodgman is a humorist working right in the sweet-spot of that vague term. He’s somewhere in between essayist and stand-up. Really, his business is being John Hodgman. And from the sound of it, brother, business is booming. I mean, he’s been to a Gift Lounge and yeah, it’s pretty cool.



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