Lewis Black

uh david tell and i becoming the face of comedy central because that's right sudden uh i'm doing and he's on um uh the insomniac insomniac late night with david tell yeah yeah and really a great show that he then that was a great show it was it was a real breakthrough i mean nobody thought but david was perfect

I'm doing this now.

They're putting now I've got I'm doing specials because now I got a ton of material.

And I'm doing these half-hour specials.

So that's getting it out there.

And then we end up, we become on Friday nights, they do interstitials.

So there's a whole bunch of comics.

And David or I or both of us would be the introers of the thing.

That put me out there.

Then Conan picks me up.

I do more Conans than anybody at that time.

The whole thing explodes.

You really did.

Because it was the last moment

I'm the last guy, one of the last guys whose career was created by television.

Yes.

Then we move out, uh, you know, into the wild fucking West.

And then we go, it all changes so that it's on the phone.

It's on this, it's on that.

Um, it's on the computer and, uh, but it really was that.