Whats it like to write jokes for someone like David Letterman?
It’s a lot of fun. You come in and read a couple newspapers and start your day with a nice appetizer of opening remarks. And during the day, you get these different writing assignments. We would write four to eight pages of jokes a day — and at a moment’s notice might be flying off to the Daytona 500 with Mujibur and Sirajul. (Laughs) You are most known for writing the “Soup Nazi” episode of ‘Seinfeld.’ So since you made that guy famous, do you get any residuals now that he has a chain of successful soup stores? That is a very good question. No I don’t! I don’t even get free soup! Have you, by the way, tried that soup? Yeah, it’s actually pretty decent. Is it as good as the old place? Yeah, but the thing is they run it like a real store. They don’t yell at you, they don’t push you out the door. They’re actually nice — which kind of defeats the purpose of going there. Oh, that’s disappointing … He was never happy about the situation. He, like most people, don’t like to be referred t
