"It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics," John Hodgman once said.
He is that personality, the guy who wrote a few funny books, parlayed that into a regular gig on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," and became a fixture on Apple computer commercials... playing the drab PC to the stylish Mac.
His considerable skill at writing and delivering funny material continues into a more personal groove in Hodgman's memoir Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches.
He joined us to give us a peek behind the mask--and to make fun of public radio conventions--in a 2017 interview. We revisit that interview here.