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Josh Lieb Biography

Josh Lieb (born 1972) is the former producer and showrunner of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His credits include stints as executive producer of NewsRadio and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. During his time at The Daily Show, Lieb was named on seven Primetime Emmys that the show won.

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Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Perspective, Putting, Real, Sunset, Sunsets, Things

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different.

Book, Different, Keep, Separate, Wholly, Writing

Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Beach, Coffee, Days, Matter, Real

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

Attain, College, Dickens, Fluidity, Helped, Style

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

Call, Crazy, Insanity, Sense, Stupidity

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you.

Blame, Father, Interesting, Realize

I have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely.

Forget, Happens, Start, Things, Writing

According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

Crap, Free, Hands, Live, People, Things In Life

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

College, Decided, Found, Paid, Poet, Poor

I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree.

College, Degrees, Ended, Grades, Qualify, Though

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

Book, Like, Love, People, Write, Writing

I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job.

Day, Definitely, Exciting, Jobs, Show, Tonight

Gratitude can sometimes be as annoying as whininess.

Annoying, Gratitude, Sometimes, Whininess

Write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount. You have to write so much that you don't mind throwing away and changing things that you've written - which is the second thing you have to do. A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not as good as you think you are, at least not yet. The more you write, the faster you'll write, and the less you'll mind throwing stuff out.

Mean, Precious, Thinking, Writing, Young

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.

Copy, Style, Styles, Wells, Writing

You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.

Genius, Intelligence, Moron, Morons, Surrounded