An only child from Bexley, Ohio, Frank Lesser is best known as an Emmy Award winning writer for Comedy Central’s ‘The Colbert Report’. Frank attended Brown University, in Providence RI, where he was founding member of “The Beasts of Funny” comedy group, and a writer for the humour magazine ‘Brown Jug’. After graduating in 2002 with a Bacholer of Arts (Film), Frank worked as a production assistant for TV Land, and as a freelance promo writer for various Viacom stations. When not working as a writer for television, Frank has written and directed a number of short films, including ‘Danny Bot’, ‘Flora Bush’, ‘Who Ordered Room Service?’, and the real working fake sex line ‘LieGirls.com.
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Director of the Hayden Planetarium, prominent astrophysicist, and most importantly, Epic Friend of both Shows Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, has tweeted that the interview/discussion with himself and the Rev. Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, is finally available. This interview originally occurred in January of 2010 at the Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, NJ.
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They knew it even then. A quarter-century ago, when Comedy Central bloviator and lushly coiffed American icon Stephen Colbert was part of a short-lived improv troupe — the No Fun Mud Piranhas — at Northwestern University in Evanston, castmates were wowed by his natural ability to bring the funny.
And not just zany funny, though he was that, but smart funny — funny that seemed to come from an intellect sharpened by far more real-world experience than the bearded and shaggy-haired dramatic actor, then 21 and a junior-year transfer, actually had. It was the start of something big.
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The audio for Stephen’s interview on “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” will be available at 5:00PM (ET).
Exclusive Web Audio: Stephen: “When I’m brushing my hair in the morning, which is quite an event”.
In the mean time here is a wonderful summary:
“I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open large-but-sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar or tea in the background and a big beard — living alone but with my beard — and doing theater,” he says. “That’s what I thought my life would be. It has not been — and I love what I do — but to be asked to do this and then to accept the challenge of it … I can la-di-da my way through things … but to sing Sondheim is a completely different beast.”
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The Charleston to Bermuda Facebook Page has a pre-race interview with Stephen in which he discusses his philosophy on sailboat racing.
There is also a clip featuring the “Spirit of Juno’s” 12 Man Crew.
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An only child from Bexley, Ohio, Frank Lesser is best known as an Emmy Award winning writer for Comedy Central’s ‘The Colbert Report’. Frank attended Brown University, in Providence RI, where he was founding member of “The Beasts of Funny” comedy group, and a writer for the humour magazine ‘Brown Jug’. After graduating in 2002 with a Bacholer of Arts (Film), Frank worked as a production assistant for TV Land, and as a freelance promo writer for various Viacom stations. When not working as a writer for television, Frank has written and directed a number of short films, including ‘Danny Bot’, ‘Flora Bush’, ‘Who Ordered Room Service?’, and the real working fake sex line ‘LieGirls.com.
Read more
Director of the Hayden Planetarium, prominent astrophysicist, and most importantly, Epic Friend of both Shows Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, has tweeted that the interview/discussion with himself and the Rev. Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA, is finally available. This interview originally occurred in January of 2010 at the Montclair Kimberley Academy in Montclair, NJ.
Read more
The audio for Stephen’s interview on “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” will be available at 5:00PM (ET).
Exclusive Web Audio: Stephen: “When I’m brushing my hair in the morning, which is quite an event”.
In the mean time here is a wonderful summary:
The Charleston to Bermuda Facebook Page has a pre-race interview with Stephen in which he discusses his philosophy on sailboat racing.
There is also a clip featuring the “Spirit of Juno’s” 12 Man Crew.