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Boston Globe: Living Arts COMEDY NOTES Comic keeps 'Late night' open to smart comedy By Nick A. Zaino III, Globe Correspondent, 7/19/2002 Eddie Brill is trying to train audiences to appreciate smart comedy. In Brill's version of a perfect world, the comedians would have punchy material with a point and would land gigs based on their writing skills and comic timing, not the receipts from their last Hollywood film. As a comedian who books the comedic talent for "The Late Show with David Lettermen," Brill takes his mission to raise the comedy bar seriously. His respect for the art of stand-up comedy stretches back to when he was a child watching the comedians on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson. He's hoping the comedians he brings to the Letterman show inspire people the way he was inspired by Carson. "The thing I think about is, when I'm a kid, and I'm watching `The Tonight Show,' and I'm looking at these comics who are fantastic on TV, that's what I aspired to as a child," he says. "I'm hoping that there are young kids out there watching the Letterman show every Friday night who love stand-up comedy and they see really smart, terrific stand-up comics ... and they go, `That's the comic I want to be.'" CONTINUING... |
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