This can seem like a strange question, I know. Most people in the media are awful people that stand for nothing, but I think everyone has an actor/comedian/icon/etc that has inspired them.

For me, it's George Carlin. It may not be the most admirable thing in the world on my part, but he stood for a lot of the same things as I do and put them into words that I wouldn't have been able to, whether it be for comedy or not. Almost everything he's said has been rude and offensive, but it's so blatant and true that you have to forgive him and laugh. His rants have made me feel okay with being in a terrible, screwed up world because there's always a voice of reason, even if that voice is a crass, rude old man with a microphone. I remember the day he died, I had done a portrait of him in an art class I had and my friend from that class called me asking if I knew what'd happened and I didn't know what to do with myself. It was like I had lost someone close to me and I never knew the man. I think we all have someone we look up to in that way. So who's your idol? And why?