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Laura Fox's avatar

So, what’s the honorific for something like this? Your Highness? Your Grace? Should we all just default to “my liege”?

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Michael Gerber's avatar

“Pay to the order of” is fine

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E.R. Flynn's avatar

Does this mean we now have to bow and courtesy, or just hand over a portion of our crops, whenever we turn in a cartoon?

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Michael Gerber's avatar

No no I am a man of the people. I require nothing but a little champagne, a Bolivar Robusto if you can get one, and polite laughter whenever a joke doesn’t go over

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Todd Viola's avatar

This doubter just did a WHOIS lookup of your domain. <artej>Very interesting.</artej>

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Seems I recall hearing this saga years ago. This isn't the first time you've shared this with your glowing public, is it? I generally trust my memory, but with such spectacular accounts, I do sometimes have to guard against false dèja entendu.

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Michael Gerber's avatar

Tony is my one really colorful relative—I have a few Nobel aspirants, but they are less useful for a humorist and, frankly, I think Tony and I have a very similar temperament. So I do write about him from time to time.

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Faith Current's avatar

This is LOL fab! And now I can say that I regularly consort with royalty. (Of course, being a Beatles writer, I do that anyroad.)PS Give C&R a chance -- it's incredible. And my advice for s2 (which is really the place to start) don't skip the intros...

PS I imagine that there are a fair number of obscure titled peers floating around the Ivy League.

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Michael Gerber's avatar

EVERYONE who goes to Yale not-so-secretly suspects they are royalty. :-)

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Faith Current's avatar

Your story reminds me of my "I was once Billy Joel's wife"... which only works without a lot of build-up...

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Michael Gerber's avatar

Faith, you “start a fire” you’re bound to get burned :-)

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Faith Current's avatar

For ten glorious minutes backstage at the Coliseum in Portland, OR, I stood next to Billy Joel posing as his wife. It was a lifetime highlight.

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Michael Gerber's avatar

Grazie Alan!

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