Who the F*** Is Wayne Federman?

EPISODE 260: Eating air.

I strongly suspect that you’ve seen Wayne Federman before.

Many times, in fact.

You just didn’t know it.

Wayne Federman has 95 acting credits on one of the most amusing pages I’ve ever seen on IMDB — from Curb Your Enthusiasm, to The Larry Sanders Show, to Community, to The X Files, to Legally Blonde, to Knocked Up.

Wayne won an Emmy for producing a documentary about the life of George Carlin for HBO. He’s working, right now, on a doc about Norm MacDonald. He also used to be a ventriloquist; a monologue writer, at one point, for Bob Newhart as well as Jimmy Fallon; and, in general, the type of person who was at Eddie Murphy’s 21st birthday party at Studio 54.

Wayne is both a part of comedy history and a professor of it, literally, at USC.

And so, yeah, I treasure the point of view of a guy like this. Someone who keeps finding himself in rooms that I’ve always wanted to find out about.

Even if the entire reason we started talking is that he’s a curious sports fan who happens to be the author of the biography of “Pistol” Pete Maravich — and the commissioner of the late Garry Shandling’s secret pickup basketball game.

Which is to say that Wayne Federman also had questions for me.

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