Pulitzer Prize winner Dave Barry talks about his latest novel, Insane City, a dark comic story of a destination wedding in Florida. The groom and his friends become embroiled with rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, a pimp as big as the Death Star, a very desperate Haitian refugee on the run with her two children from some very bad men, and an eleven-foot albino Burmese python named Blossom.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Dave Barry was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about his latest novel, Insane City, about a destination wedding that goes totally and hilariously awry. He also told us what he's been listening to recently, thanks to his daughter. Find out what else he's been reading, watching and eating!

Joan Rivers talks about her latest book, I Hate Everyone…Starting with Me. She gives the best of her worst to First Ladies, closet cases, hypocrites, Hollywood, feminists, overrated historical figures, and even herself. It’s a comic love letter to the hater in all of us.

For our final segment of 2012, we'll go out laughing. What made you laugh this year - conversations, videos, pictures, jokes, stories, movies, anything at all. Call 212-433-9692 or post below. Post your links, and we'll compile them on our blog!

Writer and humorist David Rakoff's writing was witty and sardonic and very funny. He died in August at the age of 47. He was on the Lopate Show in October 2010 to talk about his book Half Empty, which won the 2011 Thurber Prize for American Humor. We’re replaying a selection of that interview now to remember him.

Listen to other interviews with Dakid Rakoff here.

Peter Ustinov's appearance at this 1960 Books and Authors Luncheon showcases the multi-talented performer's skills as a raconteur and as a master of dialect, mimicry, and sound effects.

"Dehydrating in front of an audience," at this 1957 Books and Authors Luncheon, well-known dramatist and writer S. J. Perelman gives a chilling verbal portrait of the writer's life.

What scares you? No, really scares you? In this age of antibiotics, antiseptics, airbags and anti-virus software, maybe the answer is, not much. But Chris Cerf, co-author of "Encyclopedia Paranoiaca" would like to convince you that there’s still plenty to be scared of.

Promoting his collection Parents Keep Out, poems aimed primarily at teenagers, the poet Ogden Nash displays the well-known rhyming ability and whimsical attitude of his widely appreciated, inimitable light verse at this 1951 Books and Authors Luncheon.

The satirical publication The Onion named Kim Jong Un its 'Sexiest Man Alive' for 2012. But a newspaper in China ran with story, thinking it was true. How does a fake story get picked up by a real newspaper and then go viral? The Onion knows, and their editor, Will Tracy, explains it all.

Author and designer Kaylin Andres tackles cancer as comedy in her new comic book, "Terminally 'Illin." At the age of 23, Kaylin was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer that usually affects young children. In the midst of chemo and radiation, comedy became her coping mechanism.

Comedian and actor Kevin Pollak shares stories of working with film legends and of landing the coveted position of being a recurring guest on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show. He tells how he achieved his success, and the mistakes he made along the way, in How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs.

Andy Borowitz, author of the Borowitz Report on NewYorker.com, is back to share his thoughts on tomorrow's presidential election and the long campaign.

Watch a video of Andy Borowitz talk about the election—and predicting who will win—at the 92nd Street Y.

Andy Borowitz, author of the Borowitz Report on NewYorker.com, is back to shed some humorous light on the presidential debate, which is finally in its last weeks. He'll sum up the last two debates, the swing-state campaign stops, and his observations about the upcoming election.

"New York City Mayors I Have Known" might be the better title for this 1954 installment of Campus Press Conference featuring guest Harry Hershfield -- columnist, cartoonist, and "Toastmaster Extraordinary."