Picking brains with funny bone
Photo credit: Showtime | David Steinberg and Louis CK in “Inside Comedy.” (Season 2, Episode 1)
By DIANE WERTS. Special to Newsday
WHAT IT’S ABOUT Two comic brains sit down with Steinberg, the standup-director whose career spans 40-some years of funny. It’s simple, really — Steinberg and his guest, on location, in chairs, talking, joking.
So it’s smart, really — Steinberg guides them separately through their careers and comic attitudes, then intercuts chat strands to weave humor revelation.
Monday’s second-season premiere pairs deadpan ’60s arrival BobNewhart, the overnight-sensation standup turned long-running TV star, and current king Louis CK, a long-running standup turned tube sensation in FX’s “Louie.”
