She is the writer and performer of two off-Broadway shows, a regular on The View, an Emmy-winning writer & producer for Rosie O’Donnell. All very impressive. But what I like about her: she is the anthropologist of post-war suburban Jewish life – my life, the world I grew up in – which she observes acutely, like a perverse Margaret Mead, and then reproduces on stage – full of rage, full of pain, and very very funny.

•  PERSON: her father
• PLACE: her storage locker
• THING: her nightguard
• RANDY’S PERSON: cosmetic surgeons