JUDGING BY THE MANY OUTTAKES YOU POST ONLINE AND ON YOUR TWITTER FEED, YOU GIVE A CONVINCING SUGGESTION OF ENJOYING LIFE ENORMOUSLY. DO YOU? I do, I do! I always remember how lucky I am every day, and at the end of every day I make sure that I was nice to everyone. I ask, “Have I stressed anyone out? Is everyone cool with me?” I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I thought I had upset someone.
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THIS MIGHT SURPRISE THOSE WHO CONSIDER YOU AN ABRASIVE, OFTEN MERCILESS COMEDIAN, QUICK TO CONTROVERSY. JUST ASK THE STAR-STUDDED AUDIENCES AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES, WHICH YOU HOSTED FROM 2010 TO 2012 WITH WHAT SOME HAVE CALLED “CRUEL GLEE.” Oh, people say
Gibson ranting. I didn’t joke about their race, did I? I wish people hadn’t gotten upset by what I said, but I still justify the jokes because I’m 50, and I know what I’m doing; everything has been considered.
I’ve sometimes offended them, but what have I really offended? Their feelings? I know that no one likes to be the butt of the joke, but I don’t make jokes about things people can’t help. So, OK, I made jokes about Charlie Sheen getting drunk, Robert Downey Jr. going to jail, Mel
YOU BECAME SUCCESSFUL SOMEWHAT LATE IN LIFE, THE OFFICE ARRIVING ONTO OUR SCREENS WHEN YOU WERE 37. WERE YOU A HUGELY FRUSTRATED WANNABE COMEDIAN BEFORE THAT? Not really, no. I was just living my life. When I was five, I wanted to run the local sweetshop, then I wanted to be a marine biologist.
