Eddie Brill is an American comedian, writer, and actor who started his career in Boston, Massachusetts.
10 Facts About Eddie Brill
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Eddie Brill was previously the warm-up comedian and comedy talent coordinator of Late Show with David Letterman.
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Eddie Brill was born in New York City, and raised in Hollywood, Florida.
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Eddie Brill attended Emerson College, where he founded the Emerson Comedy Workshop along with Denis Leary, Chris Phillips and Adam Roth.
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Eddie Brill helped to create the first comedy writing department in a college, along with fellow alumni Norman Lear in 1978.
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Eddie Brill stopped after college in 1980 and then picked it back up in July 1984 when he started a comedy club in NYC named The Paper Moon.
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Eddie Brill has been working internationally as a comedian since 1989 and has appeared on over 100 TV shows in six countries.
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Eddie Brill worked for the Late Show with David Letterman from February 1997 through February 2014 as the audience warm-up and in March 2001 became the talent coordinator for the stand-up comedians.
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Eddie Brill is the creative director of The Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk, Nebraska which honors Johnny Carson.
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In 2012, Eddie Brill was removed from his position as the stand-up comedy booker for The Late Show for giving an interview with The New York Times without the show's permission.