Over here at The Enthusiast we’re big fans of John Hodgman. Hodgman, of course, is the bespectacled former professional literary agent turned writer turned actor who found overnight fame as the irksome PC in those Apple ads and as the so-called “resident expert” on The Daily Show, not to mention as a stealer of scenes in Baby Mama and, one can only assume, the upcoming Ricky Gervais opus, The Invention of Lying.

He is also one of my personal friends, and has been for quite some time. This is not intended as a boast. It’s just a way of saying that he knew me back during that time when I wore wire-rimmed glasses and owned a pair of green-colored jeans.

So when he became a national sensation a few years back, it was only natural that I would spend many late nights at bars with some of his other old friends discussing the various ways that it’s bizarre to know someone who has suddenly become overwhelmingly famous.

And we’d sit around and play The Roles John Hodgman Would Have Dominated game.
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