was a successful New York advertising executive and popular contributor to the National Lampoon, Vanity Fair, Playboy, and The New Yorker. He also worked as a writer for Saturday Night Live and authored two bestselling memoirs, both focusing on his early life in Norfolk County. The podcast features an interview with Bruce's daughter Amanda who said that he developed his love of drawing and writing before the age of ten and that his celebrated career really started in his family home in Simcoe.