Jimmy, of course, only recently took over Late Night from Conan O’Brien, who, of course, is heading out to California to take over the Tonight Show from Jay Leno (for whom I also once wrote monologue jokes) in a couple of months. Jimmy’s been on the air for about a month and last week I got the nod to start sending in freelance monologue jokes, as I’ve been doing for the Late Show with David Letterman for almost six years now (and, yes, I am still sending jokes into Dave).

Earlier this week, for the first time, Jimmy told a joke that I wrote! That’s one more notch I can add to my belt and not just for weight gain this time! If you missed the link to it in my Twitter feed, here it is:

Police in Nigeria have arrested a one hundred fourteen-year-old man after discovering more than one hundred bags of marijuana behind his house.

The good news is he’s only looking at a few months in jail. The bad news is that’s a life sentence.

Download audio file (jimmy_032309.mp3)

You can also watch the video of the entire show here.

On the upside, I’m very excited to contribute to Jimmy’s show. On the downside, it means lots more work and lots more rejection. Well, I am certainly used to rejection so, what the hell!