Joel Stein was not easy to work with on this bio. He demanded a lot of changes, particularly in regard to his photo, which he believed could be adjusted to make him look younger, fitter, and, somehow, “famouser.”

The only facts he provided that were verifiable were that he was a staff writer and columnist for Time magazine for twenty years, where he wrote twenty-two cover stories; was a columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the Los Angeles Times; is the author of Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity and In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You're Better Than Someone Who Didn't Buy This Book; taught at Princeton; wrote for several sitcoms and appeared as a talking head on I Love the 80s and any other TV show that invited him on. There is no factual basis for his claim that his writing has “saved millions of lives and destroyed many more marriages.”