You’ve heard it said that “getting there is half the fun.” Well, the people who say that never met David Brenner.
Now here was a guy who was a well-regarded documentary producer for many years before turning to comedy in the late 1960s.
His standup career thrived for over three decades, as he became a hugely popular guest on TV talk shows including “The Tonight Show” where he made over 150 appearances.
So David Brenner did a lot of traveling, accumulating hundreds of hilarious stories that eventually formed the basis for his 1990 book If God Wanted Us To Travel….
I’d been a big fan for years so I jumped at the chance to talk with him when he was on the book tour.
So here now, from 1990, David Brenner.
David Brenner died from cancer in 2014. He was 78.