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David Steinberg

Fifty years ago, Johnny Carson became the host of The Tonight Show.

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  • Whoooooooo's Johnny?

    who had made their careers and, only incidentally, to score rare face time on the medium that nurtured them. "His death," David Steinberg said of Carson on Aaron Brown's CNN show last night, "has been a boon to comedians who haven't been on TV for quite a   from Time Magazine Read more »

  • Stand-Up Comedy - David Steinbeck Explains What Makes it Funny

    to root out their own frustrations and are constantly making observations. "Watch what's going on around you," he says. David Steinberg has fifty years of experience behind him. He explains how, when he first started out in comedy, to describe yourself as   from Suite 101 Read more »

  • Mel Brooks Talks Getting His Revenge On Hitler

    most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser. Sarah Silverman was David Steinberg's guest on "Inside Comedy" (Thu., 11 p.m. EST on Showtime) Thursday night. Steinberg asked the "Jesus Is Magic" star   from TV Squad Read more »

  • Steve Carell on politics, comedy, and Tina Fey

    Monday, actor and comedian Steve Carell joined Piers Morgan in studio alongside director David Steinberg . Partners on an upcoming Showtime project, both men remarked at the relationship between politics and comedy. Referencing the current race for the GOP   from CNN Read more »

About David Steinberg

David Steinberg (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian Jewish comedian, actor, director, writer and author. He was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the United States during the late 1960s and appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show 140 times. Steinberg also directed episodes of many the most successful television comedies of the last fifteen years, including Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mad About You, Friends and over 35 episodes of Designing Women.

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