Thanks For Staring

The famous Steve Landesberg Stare Did you know Al Pacino tried stand-up comedy? So did Kevin Spacey and Craig T. Nelson. I’m sure the list of famous people who have tried stand-up comedy would go on forever. The truth is most comedians don’t get famous until they do something besides stand-up. Eddie Murphy and Jerry … Read more

Welcome–New Beginnings

Welcome!!! Steve here. Thanks for coming to the Dying To Do Letterman website. Or, coming back. A Journey… Ya see it was six years ago that I started this website as a campaign to spread the word about my project of trying to get on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and now it’s been … Read more

Fringe Benefits: Hanging with Comedian Brian Regan

There are so many things I love about being a comedian: The creativity, the laughter, the travel. But I think my favorite thing is that once you are a working stand-up you can pretty much walk into any club and watch the show for free. Even when the show’s packed I can stand in a … Read more

Recurring Dream Part Deux

Ok, so my dream to get on Letterman is complete. All the details of my journey are going to be in a documentary entitled cleverly enough “Dying To Do Letterman” with the help of my filmmaker friends Joke and Biagio (jokeandbigio.com or jokeproductions.com). So now what? Well, as many of you know, the tumors on … Read more

Dream Complete

Call the Dream Police and tell them that they can take the day off. Tonght, my appearance on “The Late Show w/David Letterman” airs. I taped it Monday August 31st.  Dave and the gang take Fridays off, so they tape two shows on Monday, and show the second one on Fridays. I don’t want to … Read more

2009?

Already a quarter way thru 2009 and no Letterman booking yet. YET!!!! The year is young and so am I.  Ok, at least the year is.   Good news is after a year of submitting new material and DVD’s to  “The Late Show w/David Letterman” I got some decent news. I submitted a new set to … Read more

Recurring Dream

OK. Over two years have passed and I haven’t done Letterman. I’ve even gone to revision 2.0 of this website. In the first year of this project I got much closer to Letterman than I was prior to the project. Looking back I don’t know if doing it within a year was even possible. IN … Read more