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INSIDE COMEDY
April 18, 2013  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

Showtime 2, 8:30 p.m. ET

 
SEASON FINALE: Here’s a prime-time, same-week repeat of Monday’s late-night Inside Comedy season finale – David Steinberg’s tasteful, memorable, thoroughly impressive visit with Robert Schimmel, the stand-up comedian who endured several personal tragedies and travails, only to die after a car accident six months after this interview was filmed. This season finale proves at least three things: Schimmel was a veteran talent who deserved larger exposure than he got, Inside Comedy deserves larger exposure than it’s gotten, and all episodes of this program should be devoted to one comic per show. Oh, and Steinberg? Solid, smart interviewing. Imagine how much more vibrant The Tonight Show would have been like had Steinberg, not Leno, gotten the nod years ago…
 
 
 
 
 
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Jon88
It was a great interview, and I recommend it wholeheartedly. But the series itself is, alas, uneven. A few weeks ago, three of Lily Tomlin's 13 minutes were given over to a completely pointless anecdote (initiated by Steinberg) that had nothing to do with Tomlin. This is an extreme example of the show's occasionally bizarre detours. Not as bad as PBS's Pioneers of Television segment on Carol Burnett, which burned many minutes on non-Carol clips, but of a kind.
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