Will Ferrell was one our list of worst autograph signers. And, when I did a radio interview last week talking about it, the DJ was surprised, and brought up all his funny movies. And, the night before, I was backstage with a lot of comedians. They had told me, they hate when someone comes up and says to them, "Hey, you're that comedian. Say something funny." The DJ said, "I get the same thing. If people find out I'm a radio DJ, they say 'use your radio voice'.

Maybe that can be part of the reason comedians can be tough when it comes to autographs. Who knows. They feel like they have to always be "on".

Recently, Will Ferrell received the James Joyce Award. He said "As I perused my leatherbound volumes of 'Ulysees,' 'Finnegans Wake,' 'Dubliners,' and 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,' standing in my mahogany library, a lot of feelings ran across my mind. Like: 'Damn, I should have read these books."

He said that in front of over a thousand University College Dublin students.

He spent a few weeks traveling throughout Ireland with some siblings.

He has talked about his Irish roots in a few interviews, and even joked about how when he returns to the U.S. he'll drive on the left hand side of the road. He joked also, about the award, saying "James Joyce spent a lot of his life living outside of Ireland. I too have spent a lot of time living outside of Ireland."

The Joyce award, run by the university's Literary and Historical Society, has been bestowed on a wide range of politicians and celebrities, including Jesse Jackson, U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix, and former South African President F.W. de Klerk.