Isn't it really nice to be asked

He may look like the stuffy academic type, but James Lipton, host of Bravo channel's "Inside the Actors Studio," knows how to play nice with the politicos.

After a cartoon in The New York Times suggested that presidential candidate Mitt Romney should take acting lessons from Lipton to "learn how to appear more relatable," Lipton played along by submitting a blog post of suggestions to New York Magazine.

In his blog op-ed "How to Act Human," Lipton suggests, among other things, that Romney should ditch the phony laugh and stop trying to pretend he has anything at all in common with the commo...