The next Tom Joad:

The 48-year-old Echo Park resident has been a writer on Fox’s “Talk Show With Spike Feresten” for the show’s second season. It’s been his steadiest gig since he left Manhattan for Los Angeles about three years ago. “I was a writer on ‘The Daily Show’ and I was making about $100,000,” he says. “I was making a good living, but I couldn’t afford to live in New York on that salary. So I came here.”

Maybe he should apply for S-Chip.