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Eddie Brill

If you're scared to die....you better.....not be scared to live!!

About Me

Eddie Brill is a well-respected and very funny stand-up comedian here in the USA and abroad. He has been a regular on the comedy scene in England since 1989. Eddie also works regularly in Australia, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, France, Holland and Hong Kong.

Eddie was born and raised in New York...and re-raised in Hollywood, FL.

For the past eleven years and counting, Eddie has worked on "THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN". He is the audience warm-up and Talent Coordinator for the comedians who appear on the show.

He started stand-up comedy in the late 70's at Emerson College, but moved back to NY, quit stand-up, and was a copywriter for an advertising agency for a short while. In July of 1984 he got back into doing stand-up when he started, booked and hosted the very successful Paper Moon Comedy Club in the west village of NYC and hasn't stopped since. Since then he has become an international comedian who can work most anywhere in the world...anywhere in the world where they speak English, of course. He has taped more than 100 television shows in six different countries. He is also a 3-time MAC Award Winner (Manhattan Association of Cabaret and Clubs) for Best Male Stand-up Comic in NYC.

Eddie has hosted and performed for hundreds of corporate events...including ESPN, Glaxo Welcome. Hyatt Hotels and BMC Software. He performed on some of the greatest stages in the world including The Shrine Auditorium and Radio City Music Hall. He has been the audience warm-up for many shows including the "Dana Carvey Show," "Madigan Men," "This is Your Life" and for a short time....early episodes of "Saved By The Bell." He has appeared in numerous films as an actor...most recently, "30 Years To Life" with Tracy Morgan. He has used his voice talents in many animated series including Comedy Central's "Dr Katz" and ABC's "Science Court."

He produces and helps book stand-up talent all over the world. Along with Norman Lear in 1978, he helped create one of the first ever college comedy writing departments in the country at Emerson College in Boston. He also helped create the Emerson Comedy Workshop, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Some of the talents emerging from that workshop: Denis Leary, Steven Wright, Chris Phillips, Adam Roth, Mario Cantone, Anthony Clark, David Cross, Bill Burr to name a few. He currently teaches a highly acclaimed stand-up comedy workshop worldwide that helps comics young and old take their comedy work to the next level. Eddie is the consulting editor and humor consultant for Readers' Digest. Promoting the magazine's humor franchise in his travels around the country, at college campuses, on the radio and working to get the humor on Reader's Digest's pages translated into many different media.


Eddie also performs and helps raise money for many organizations... including The Roberto Clemente Foundation (for underprivileged children), Sisters in Survival (women with Breast cancer). Juvenile Diabetes, The American Cancer Society, and, with Reader's Digest and St. Judes on Stand-Up for the Children.

My Interests

I enjoy comedy, traveling, performing, writing, music (giving and receiving!), theater, producing, booking, real and fantasy baseball.

I'd like to meet:

I have been very lucky to have met some of the people I have always dreamt about meeting. It has been an incredible ride so far! People I regret not meeting include John Lennon, Johnny Carson, Ernie Kovacs, Roberto Clemente, Jackie Vernon, Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra, JFK and Robert Mitchum.

Music:

The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Aretha Franklin, Eels, The Who, XTC, Marvin Gaye, Pulp, Radiohead, Ennio Morricone, Rachmaninoff....... Really......anything that has a soul to it.

Movies:

Quick list.... Cinema Paradiso, Blade Runner, Manhattan, Diva, Volver, Sex and Lucia, Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The Producers, The In-Laws, Godfather 1 and 2, Pulp Fiction...........

Television:

(US) "THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN" The Sopranos, The Shield, The Wire. (UK)The Office, Father Ted and The Royle Family.

Books:

Oh yes....I love them! RIF

Heroes:

John Lennon, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Roberto Clemente, Elvis Costello, my Grandpa Eddie.