Where do we start?

Before I get serious, as I must, I should start with the inescapable humor and joking that were at the heart of my friendship with Charlie. We could never stop sarcastically teasing each other, privately and publicly. It really became difficult sometimes to force ourselves to get serious when we were together. Could the ultra-liberal Larry David — with whom I was once friends — imagine that Charlie and I were constantly trading Seinfeld quotes, and that Charlie knew the sh...