How does one go about proving one’s 10-octave range?
RW: [Laughs.] I don’t have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range. That was just something my former roommate came up with. AVC: The rumor has circulated on the Internet for so long there are debates about whether or not it’s true. RW: I know, so it’s funny. It goes along with how I like to be confusing, so it’s fine. But no, it’s impossible. I think the maximum is five. AVC: Why is disorienting, or, as it is in your bio, “disorientating” an audience important to you? RW: I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn’t make sense. Monty Python does a good job of it; Bugs Bunny, too. Bugs is all over the place, doing this, doing that. It’s my favorite kind of humor: something that you can’t count on. It’s fun for an audience because you just have to stop expecting and go along for the ride. AVC: Thematically, there’s a lot in your act about paradigm shifts and mutating realities; does this sense of destabilizing an audience co
