It has been 25 years since Johnny Carson stepped down as host of “The Tonight Show,” but his legacy lives on in reruns on Antenna TV and in “The Carson Podcast,” hosted by my guest Mark Malkoff. In looking back at the King Of Late Night, we discussed: Whether Carson’s monologue or any modern late […]
Kliph Nesteroff returned to my radio show to talk about two TV projects he has coming up. One of them is “Funny How?” a five-part series debuting July 10th on Viceland, in which he follows Dave Attell, Mike Birbiglia, Rhea Butcher, and other comics as they work across the country. The other is CNN’s “History […]
Showtime has a new series starting Sunday called “I’m Dying Up Here.” It’s based on William Knoedelseder’s 2006 non-fiction book about the Los Angeles comedy scene in the late 1970s, particularly at the Comedy Store, where young comics like Jay Leno, David Letterman, Jimmy Walker, Robin Williams, Tom Dreeson, and dozens of other standups were […]
Will Durst explains what it’s like to be a political comedian in the age of Trump…
Here’s my conversation with Jason Zinoman about his book, “Letterman: The Last Giant Of Late Night.” Among the topics we discussed: Whether it was harder to convince David Letterman to sit down for interviews or his former showrunner/girlfriend Merrill Markoe to share her diary; Letterman’s three distinct creative eras at NBC, and why the CBS […]
My wife and I went to see Chris Rock last night at the Peabody. We had never seen him in concert (only on TV), but he was in top form as he talked about Trump, guns, and religion. He also was very candid about his divorce — which he claims was his own fault for […]