Socquet learns to laugh again, the hard way.

A look at the corrosive effect of straw polls on the primary race.

Please explain what just happened.

I spilled my latte all over an old man sitting too close to me at Starbucks.

What is your earliest memory?

Tuesday.

If you weren’t a comedian, what other profession would you choose?

Chef, or maybe farmer.

Describe a typical work day.

Up at 6 a.m. to start doing radio call-ins to promote various shows.

Smoke a toke.

Big bowl of peanut butter Cap ‘N Crunch.

TV watching (usually Real Housewives or Top Chef).

Shower.

Lunch.

Smoke a Toke.

Nap.

Showtime.

A theory on why women used to be perceived as not funny, and how they can be humorously boinkable.

Please explain what just happened.

My comedy CD, Live And Hilarious, debuted at number nine on the the Billboard comedy charts. Not bad for a Jersey boy!

What is your earliest memory?

Mixing Ajax bleaching powder and orange juice and painting the furniture. My first stab at being an artist.

If you weren’t a comedian or writer, what other profession would you choose?

If I weren’t a comedian, I probably would’ve been a Chilean miner. But I didn’t wanna take the easy way out.

James D. Irwin ponders his love/hate relationship with stand up comedy in the early hours of the morning.

A comedy writer attempts to understand the ways of the corporate criminal.

Experts agree that the diagnoses of S.T.U.U.P.I.D. children is on the rise. Should you be worried?

James D. Irwin on the the power of jokes, and the responsibility of comedians.