Kevin Bleyer

But certainly it's a mix of people on these kind of shows that are either people that are, they prefer to be behind the laptop.

Sometimes there are people, of course, that are also doing a nightly gig every night at the Comedy Cellar.

Is that what you do?

Doug, you first.

I think yours was more traditional than mine.

Yeah, it was a bit of an accident, but obviously a welcome one.

I...

You know, even working in late night was a bit of a now 20 plus year diversion because, you know, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do after I left school and moved down to La La Land, Joe.

And thought, you know, I actually thought I wanted to maybe work in episodic television.

But the very first job I got was as a writer's assistant, the only one that was seemingly available for a new show called Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.

And it stuck around long enough that they promoted me to writer and I was there for six years.

And then I worked for Dennis Miller for a number of years.

But that ended, that show was canceled.

And now I'm in my early 30s.

And I kind of didn't even know that this was necessarily my calling or my career.

I certainly enjoyed it.

But I wasn't certain what was going to happen now that I'm in my mid 30s, early 30s.

And it by happenstance, this is where I admit it's entirely that part was entirely luck is that I

Look, I think I owe Stephen Colbert my entire adult career, because I had met him, we both spoke at this odd little panel, and I was, again, nervous, didn't know he was gonna be on the panel with me.

It worked out enough that a few days later, my agent calls me,