We preemptively mocked Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan's comic novel The Underminer back in December because, well, mostly because we're bad people.

But reading Boris Kachka's interview with the writers in the new New York magazine, we're starting to come around. Albo and Heffernan come off like a couple of funny pals who've worked out their own mini-Vaudeville shtick:

It s a cute idea. Did you just put it together in one day?
 Virginia Heffernan: It was mostly in an afternoon. And we came back to it after dinner.
Does having a lot of friends in media help in promotion?
 V.H.: Okay, stop!
M.A.: Your undermining comments are so natural, I can t tell if you re real or not.
[...]
Was it hard to keep that one joke going?
 V.H.: Nope, we never got tired of it. We re like Chevy Chase with Fletch.

Well, there was a sequel to Fletch, after all. But it sucked. But theirs won't. Probably. (Wow, this 'undermining' is addictive.)

Comic Duo: Mike Albo & Virginia Heffernan [NYM]
The Underminer [Bloomsbury USA]
America, Prepare to Be 'Undermined'