It\'s Beyond Complicated: The Birthday Show

On this episode, we celebrate Peters birthday with rants, legal problems and plenty of callers. Plus,how to overcome your fear of public speaking Eddie Brill of the Late Show with David Letterman

Its Beyond Complicated: The Late Shows Eddie Brill

For the past thirteen years and counting, has worked on the Late Show with David Letterman. He is the audience warm-up and Talent Coordinator for the comedians who appear on the show. We find out what he looks for in a young comic. He also talks about how a extreme change in his eating habits has changed his life for the better.

Eddie Brill

Eddie Brill is a well-respected and very funny stand-up comedian here in the USA and
abroad. He has been a regular on the comedy scene in England since 1989. Eddie also
works regularly in Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, France, Holland and Hong Kong.
He was born and raised in New York...and re-raised in Hollywood, FL.
For the past eleven years and counting, has worked on the Late Show with David
Letterman. He is the audience warm-up and Talent Coordinator for the comedians who
appear on the show.
He started stand-up comedy in the late 70\'s in college, but moved back to NY and was a
copywriter for an advertising agency for a short while. But in July of 1984 he got back into
doing stand-up when he started, booked and hosted the very successful Paper Moon
Comedy Club in the west village of NYC and hasn\'t stopped since. Since then he has
become an international comedian who can work most anywhere in the world...anywhere
in the world where they speak English of course. He has taped more than 100 television
shows in six different countries. He is also a 3-time MAC Award Winner (Manhattan
Association of Cabaret and Clubs) for Best Male Stand-up Comic in NYC.
He has hosted and performed for hundreds of corporate events...including ESPN, Glaxo
Welcome. Hyatt Hotels and BMC Software. He performed on some of the greatest stages
in the world including The Shrine Auditorium and Radio City Music Hall. He has been the
audience warm-up for many shows including the Dana Carvey Show, Madigan Men This
is Your Life and for a short time....early episodes of Saved By The Bell. He has appeared
in numerous films as an actor...most recently, 30 Years To Life with Tracy Morgan. He
has used his voice talents in many animated series including Comedy Central\'s Dr Katz
and ABC\'s Science Court.
Eddie produces and helps book stand-up talent all over the world. He is the creative
director of the wildly successful Great American Comedy Festival. It honors Johnny
Carson in his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska. Along with Norman Lear in 1978, he
helped create one of the first ever college comedy writing departments in the country at
Emerson College in Boston. He also helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop,
founded in 1976 and continuing to thrive today. Some of the talents emerging from that
workshop: Denis Leary, Mario Cantone, Anthony Clark, David Cross, Bill Burr to name a
few. He currently teaches a highly acclaimed stand-up comedy workshop worldwide that
helps comics young and old take their comedy work to the next level. Eddie is the
consulting editor and humor consultant for Readers\' Digest. Promoting the magazine\'s
humor franchise in his travels around the country, at college campuses, on the radio and
working to get the humor on Reader\'s Digest\'s pages translated into many different
media.
Eddie performs and helps raise money for many benefits including The Roberto
Clemente Foundation (for underprivileged children), Sisters in Survival (women with
Breast cancer). Juvenile Diabetes, The American Cancer Association, and, of course,
with Reader\'s Digest and St. Jude on Stand-Up for the Children.
Phew. How Eddie Brill finds time to eat and sleep, I have no idea.

Eddie\'s Website