INSIDE COMEDY
Showtime 2, 8:30 p.m. ET
SEASON FINALE: Here’s a prime-time, same-week repeat of Monday’s late-night Inside Comedy season finale – David Steinberg’s tasteful, memorable, thoroughly impressive visit with Robert Schimmel, the stand-up comedian who endured several personal tragedies and travails, only to die after a car accident six months after this interview was filmed. This season finale proves at least three things: Schimmel was a veteran talent who deserved larger exposure than he got, Inside Comedy deserves larger exposure than it’s gotten, and all episodes of this program should be devoted to one comic per show. Oh, and Steinberg? Solid, smart interviewing. Imagine how much more vibrant The Tonight Show would have been like had Steinberg, not Leno, gotten the nod years ago…