Martini Shot

When I tell people what I do for a living -- which, for the record, I try not to do; mostly I tell people that I'm a merchant banker and leave it at that; when you say "merchant banker," I've found, there are no follow ups -- but for the times when I actually tell people that I write and produce television comedies, what I hear back is either "You should do a sitcom about everybody in the payroll department. Crazy.  Crazy funny," or something a little more aggressive and challenging, like "So what do you do now?  Sit around and live off of your Cheers residuals?"...