May 22, 2013
She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s called a standup comic,
but is she? She doesn’t tell jokes, she tells stories. And she
doesn’t so much tell them as perform them, as a gifted actor might.
Randy and Maria met by email when he wrote the Ethicist column for
the Times, and she wanted to discuss the ethical implications of
being a spokesperson for a big box store. She lives in a moral
universe. Despite this disadvantage, she has a flourishing career
in show business.