Grateful for every #EmployeeOfTheMonth show I got to see, she was never less than brilliant. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote: “Catie was the funniest, kindest and sweetest. The New Yorker wrote that Lazarus’ “unorthodox interview style and background in psychology” helped her to “get stories out of her subjects which others cannot.”īut the writer and comedy community of which she was a part took to Twitter on Monday to grieve Lazarus as a person.ĭana Gould called her a “sweet and beautiful human being.” Sarah Larson of The New Yorker called her “kind, original and so funny.” Miriam Gottfried, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, wrote “the nights I attended her show were among the best I’ve spent in NYC.” But it was also hailed in reviews as simultaneously funny and thoughtful, even as it tended to drill down into the work lives of her guests. Part of the show’s appeal was its vibe of being of another era, like the Catskills comedy scene in the Sixties. “She was always hustling, figuring out a way to feed the show.” “The show was sort of what she lived for, and I mean that quite literally,” Williams said. And you show up and she’s got Jon Stewart on. “We could never figure out how she figured this show out, because in every other area of her life she was so scattered,” Williams said, laughing.
Previously, on occasion, the show was put on hiatus due to Lazarus’ illness, which she largely kept hidden but from a few close friends. She also wrote for various publications, including The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine, but when her interview show started to take off, it seems she wrote less often.Īs for her show, it essentially came to an end earlier this year, given the inability to stage it live under public measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Her interview guests over the years included Jon Stewart, in his first interview after leaving “The Daily Show” Jill Abramson, just before she was ousted at The New York Times David Simon Jon Hamm Gloria Steinem Martha Plimpton Daveed Diggs Tom Colicchio Lin-Manuel Miranda Rachel Maddow Sheila Nevins Samantha Power Sarah Silverman, and Titus Burgess, among so many others over several years of the show. “She loved people and getting to know everything that was going on in their head.” “The way she interviewed people is almost indistinguishable from the way she interacted with people in general,” Trevor Williams, a director and longtime friend of Lazarus, said. Rupert Murdoch Steps Down as Chief of Fox Corp.
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