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Michael Ian Black Is Back, All Right!

Comedian and author Michael Ian Black reflects on starting the very first "Twitter war," redefining masculinity, and his podcast inspired by the Thomas Hardy novel, Jude The Obscure.
Ophira Eisenberg talks with comedian Michael Ian Black on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

Among comedian, actor and author Michael Ian Black's weirdest accomplishments? Starting a joke feud — and ostensibly, the first "Twitter war" — with LeVar Burton, actor and host of the PBS children's series . "When LeVar Burton and I did that, it was all fun and games, and a desperate ploy to get followers," Black told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's , at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. "It wasn't the personal, vitriolic

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