Carrot Top

In our dressing room at the club, his wife donated his notes from an appearance on this night show.

So it's his handwritten notes and they're all framed.

with a photo of Rodney.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.

One of the things I loved about him, man, is that he introduced the world to a lot of other great comics.

He introduced the world to Kinison, Hicks, Robert Schimmel, Dom Irera, Jerry Seinfeld, like a lot of comics did.

Yeah.

A lot of comics did those HBO young comedian specials.

No, a lot of the late shows don't.

But comics that have podcasts all do this.

Listen, I think people were going to have podcasts whether I did or not.

They don't.

But also, they're just so hampered anyway.

You have to have a book to promote.

Because it's all...

The whole show was, not to knock late night shows, because some of them are fun to watch, but it's basically, it's publicity for a bunch of stuff, right?

It's like someone's coming on to promote an album, someone's coming on to promote a movie.

Nothing wrong with that, right?

But the problem is it's not what the host is interested in.

And I think the way that those shows are, you're handicapped in a way, where you have to get on the famous people, you have to get on the rock star.