The Best World’s Worst Interview? You be the judge

But I do think Victor Gischler’s Q&A with Christopher Moore may well be my favorite, considering questions like these:

Do very very very strange people show up to your book signings?

CM: Not so much. Most of the people who come to my signings seem very normal. Occasionally I’ll get a Goth or a Hippie-type person, and I like that, but for the most part my audience is made up of smart, working-people who like to laugh.

Do you have any special, useless talents? (Like burping the alphabet, etc?)

CM: I’m pretty good at knife-throwing. Really.

More seriously, Moore provides some insight into why, perhaps, comedic novels are a really tough sell:

What’s your relationship with your editor/publisher? Do they ever say "This is just too damn goofy" when you turn in a novel or synopsis?

CM: No, on the contrary, they usually ask, "Will it be funny." The problem is, comedy doesn’t translate into outline or synopsis form very well. In fact, I’ve
never seen a funny outline. I have to remind them of this, and then I’ll quickly synopsize one of my previous novels, and say, "See, that doesn’t sound funny either, but it is."

Humor’s tough to inject into a novel, but a synopsis? What a herculean task that would be.