“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams gets profiled by New York magazine, and it is not the typical profile piece.
Rather than focusing on his upbringing and journalism background (although it does get mentioned a few times) the piece spends 3600 (!!) words looking at his comedic stylings on shows such as “Late Night,” “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live.”
These days, when people come up to Williams in public, more often than not it’s to praise his extracurricular work. “No one ever stops me at La Guardia to say ‘That oil-price-per-barrel graphic you guys use? Killer,’ ” he says.
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Williams told me he occasionally marks up 30 Rock scripts because the material they want him to do is too risqué. Fey confirmed that she gets notes from the anchor—with suggestions on how to improve the jokes.
You can read the entire piece, here.