Updated with video of the Letterman appearance – see the bottom of the post.
A decade ago, yours truly spent about the life span of a mayfly as an aspiring stand-up comic. I followed the lead of my childhood friend (and lifelong cut-up) Lee Levine and performed a “tight five-minute” routine at a few open mic comedy nights in the San Francisco area. On one of those nights, in a British pub near Stanford University, Lee introduced me to the event’s host, a charming and affable Midwesterner named Steve Mazan. After …