Lewis Black Sounds Off on Trump, Jon Stewart, and Almost Getting Pushed Out of ‘The Daily Show’ – By Matt Wilstein (The Daily Beast) / Oct 6 2020
Lewis Black is the only Daily Show contributor to appear alongside every host past and present: Craig Kilborn, Jon Stewart, and Trevor Noah. “And whoever they want to bring in next,” he jokes on this week’s episode of The Last Laugh podcast.
The comedian has delivered his signature “Back in Black” segment hundreds of times over the past two and a half decades, most recently roasting New Yorkers—like himself—who have escaped the city during the pandemic. Currently, Black is holed up in North Carolina and driving himself stir crazy.
It’s been just about seven months since he last got on stage to perform stand-up comedy. Now, that final show has become his latest special, available to stream now on iTunes and other platforms. Taped on Friday, March 13 at a casino in Michigan, it’s the first stand-up special to actually address what was then full-on coronavirus panic.
“Everything was starting to close,” Black explains. “We were at a casino, not one of your bastions of health. It’s not like a health center.” As showtime approached, he figured it might get canceled, but people kept “pouring in” so he decided to go through with one more show while he still could.
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