Rachel Pointed Me to This Hilarious Thing

I've loved Maurice Sendak for decades.

I've loved Stephen Colbert (especially his innovations in the English language) for more than a decade.

I go around quoting Colbert's character Charles "Chuck" Noblet from Strangers with Candy virtually as often as I quote Amy Sedaris's Jeri Blank from that same show. Probably because I have every episode of that show ever made virtually memorized. I have on my downstairs walls a miniature Jeri Blank shrine that I commissioned by an EBAY craftsperson. The artist glued all manner of little (very realistic looking) fake pills and miniature syringes to the shrine. And there's a little plinth where you can put a devotional candle and burn it to Jeri, who was so "wise." (If evil is wisdom.)

I think Colbert and longtime collaborator Paul Dinello wrote most of those scripts, but don't quote me on that. I might be selling Amy Sedaris short though, and that's the last thing I would want to do to a comedic genius.

So to experience Colbert and Sendak relating to one another is a real treat.

I didn't expect Mr. Sendak to be such a hilarious meanie (at first I thought Colbert worked him up to playing this part but now I think the misantropy is real).

I love it when Maurice outs himself as gay! I suppose I should have known. I do remember a young boy in his one book in drag, and that character is actually facing me when I wake up. It's a poster in which many characters from different Sendak books are all milling about together.

Loved this.

How could Sendak have never heard of "tallywhacker" for penis! lol.

Colbert was the perfect person to interview this curmudgeon with a great sense of humor.

OMG! Only Colbert could have gotten an interview with a child's author to end with an admission to a desire to "kill someone."

Rachel is the poet, visual artist and visionary who blogs at Sephyrus (see blogroll at left to check out her inspiring skies and the inspiring skies of her poetry).