CHAPTER 163

The author writes an article for the New Yorker about the comedians’ table being moved. Noam hates it. He tells the author it reads like he planned to move the table, but it was moved against his wishes and he was fixing that error, so he didn’t take a chance that failed like Colin’s quote says. And regarding the new table, Noam says it’s almost impossible to determine exactly where the table was before the renovation, but contrary to the quotes from Liz and Colin, it is back in the same spot.

Noam: The whole thing is just stupid. Anybody who’d ever done renovation knows it’s tough and you’re tweaking things and you’re figuring things out, and it’s not done until it’s done. And the idea that this was some sort of decision, you know, it was just absurd, it’s not the way it happened at all. On the contrary it was always supposed to be not moving, the table. Period. That was always it. I mean George, my business partner, said, ‘Yeah, you said it over and over.’ It was the only part of the whole renovation I was really interested in. Like, ‘I don’t know about kitchens, you guys can do whatever you want in the kitchens. Liz, whatever equipment you need, the answer’s yes, the only thing I care about is that the table doesn’t move.’