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Ben Karlin, a former editor of The Onion and former head writer for The Daily Show, talks to Faith about his new collection of essays, “Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me.”
Ben Karlin is an enabler – he is funny AND he helps other people be funny. He was editor of the satirical newspaper, The Onion back in the 90s. More recently, he was Head Writer and Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Executive Producer of The Colbert Report. Now, on Valentine’s Day he’s enabling lovers and the lovelorn to wallow in their past failures with his collection of essays – Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me. He’s on Fair Game to talk to Faith about it.