Lewis Black on Creating Bits and Writing Plays
The comedian and author talks about building a career by “learning from the trauma.”

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Clay McBride courtesy Lewis Black.
Listen to this episode of The Moment with guest Lewis Black:
This week on The Moment, Brian Koppelman talks to Lewis Black. The comedian and author discusses how he develops material, his career as a playwright, and his future with The Daily Show. Brian recalls the night he saw Lewis at the Beacon Theatre and watched his bit about Vince Gill and Amy Grant. And to top it all off, Lewis gives us a few thoughts on religion and the time he once had faith.
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Topics this week:
- Inside Out
- The Moment’s interview with Big Jay Oakerson
- Todd-n-Tyler Radio Empire
- The Bob & Tom Show
- Lewis Black performs a bit about Vince Gill and Amy Grant
- Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation
- WTF’s interview with Lewis Black
- The Nerdist interview with Lewis Black
- The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
- WTF’s interview with Jim Breuer
- “My Transcendent Podcast Guest: Jim Breuer Redeems Himself on Marc Maron's WTF” on Grantland
- Atlantic Theater Company
- Samuel French
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- I Never Sang for My Father, a play by Robert Anderson
- One Slight Hitch, a play by Lewis Black
- The West Bank Cafe
- Yale School of Drama
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