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They’re kind of asking for it, though, aren’t they? But I don’t know, that’s probably a pretty mean piece. But then I convinced myself that it was a sweet piece and that the people in the school are pretty nice. I almost didn’t put in “Acupuncture School.” I felt like it was a little mean to people who practice acupuncture.

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I can’t think of any examples of you taking swipes at anything in Free Range Chickens. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to.

I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don’t attack anyone. In Free-Range Chickens you put yourself in the mind of lab frogs, prostitutes, video-game ducks - do you feel like anyone is off limits? Now he’s back with a second collection, Free-Range Chickens, in which he muses on everything from the monsters that hid in his closet as a child to the absurdity of the euphemism “the world’s oldest profession.” Rich spoke to Vulture about the new book, the upcoming season of SNL - which premieres this weekend - and the possibility of a certain bookish brunette tackling the role of our nation’s latest vice-presidential fixation. Twenty-four-year-old humorist Simon Rich has the kind of career upon which authorial dreams are made: He is the youngest-ever writer for Saturday Night Live, has been published in The New Yorker, and already has a book under his belt - the well-reviewed 2007 collection Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations.