I thought this was one of the funniest hours of anything that I've heard in a long time. The show's history is full of dumb callers trying to make Tom mad, but most of the people in this hour were artisans of one form or another.
Tom recognized two of them for their excellent... er, "excellent" work, even - the guy who said he'd learned about the show through Hollywood Handbook especially. Although I thought the Bruce Villanch thing was over the top. And telling the three studio amigos to sue him for their money was an excellent end to the whole thing.
It probably won't, and shouldn't, happen again, but it was highly entertaining. I can't tell whether I was laughing or sweating more at listening to the building discomfort.
I was sitting in a hipster ramen joint in downtown Durham, not far from where I saw them live, and I was just trying not to a) snort the broth out my nose and b) draw the attention of the whole restaurant. I succeeded on both counts, but not by much.
A+
