The evils of fiction

About reading, a coworker once told me "I don't understand why anyone reads fiction. What's the point? It's all made up. I only read nonfiction."

I thought this was amazing. The logical extension of this would be to never look at artwork, avoid almost all music, certainly never watch a film or a play. After all, that stuff is all made up. All of these types of art an extension of story-telling: fiction.

I'm picturing this guy making a ruckus at a comedy club:

"So, a priest and a rabbi are on a boat ..."
"You mean a priest, a rabbi, and a stand-up comic, right? Since you must have been there to witness this happening? Otherwise I want my money back."