I feel a combination of gag reflex and bemused laughter watching a guy so in need of praise and affirmation, and apparently so starved of actual recognition, that he simply heaps it upon himself. It's at once, funny, sad and gross, funny because a supposed genius can't see how absurdly self nullifying he is, sad because of the picture of past unmet needs and gross because, well, it's just icky to witness. I submit there is a yawning gap between superior intellect and clownish fantasies of self inflation, and it's awfully easy to see which is which.
