And the last time he was aware of his inner angry guy?

Mr. Barr said he did not consider himself a particularly angry guy.

"We had one angry guy who spilled coffee on his keyboard," he said.

He is not sure, however, if he will bring back the angry guy.

Maybe angry white guys are getting their turn on the stage, after years of dominating the AM radio dial.

"He was just an angry guy last year from the get-go," Alexander said.

"Everyone thought we were looking for an angry white guy in a white van," said a senior government official.

"They were looking for an angry white guy in a white truck," one federal law enforcement official said today.

Here was this little prickly guy - angry and contentious.

He thought that "an angry guy isn't going to last" in the show and decided to make John "funny and very human".