Talk-to-Yourself Radio: With Phil Hendrie Nothing Is as It Seems. Many consider him the funniest man on radio, if they get the joke, which is a send-up of the American talk radio universe as a whole.

“Those 2 percent used to dash off angry letters to the editor for your local

paper,” he said. “Now they practically run the country because of the platform

radio has given them.” Hendrie makes a living pushing them off the stage, one at

a time.

Listening to Hendrie talk about his audience is to a hear a man who embodies

both a Jeffersonian optimism about the intelligence of the average citizen and a

Menckenesque pessimism about the intelligence of the average citizen. New York Times Magazine

Listen to Hendrie in streaming audio here [via MetaFilter]