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Shaffer is not just known for working with Letterman. He has written a couple of really great disco tunes, including the 1983 jam It’s Raining Men, and plays with The Late Show’s The World’s Most Dangerous Band.
He and Jesse talk about his expansive career, what it was like working on a show everyday for half of his life then not, and his impressive eyewear.
You can catch Paul Shaffer & The World’s Most Dangerous Band on tour this Spring. Their new album is on sale now.
Growing up in New York and being the son of children’s book author/illustrator John Steptoe, Javaka knew he was going to be an artist from the time he was a child. His first book In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall, received the Coretta Scott King award for Illustrators in 1997, and many of his subsequent books recieved awards and recognition. His newest book, Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has won the 2017 Caldecott award, which is basically the Pulitzer Prize for children’s books.
Javaka joins Jesse to talk about what it was like to grow up with a well known father, where his passion and interest in Jean-Michel Basquiat came from, and why he finds it important to create diversity in the books that children read.
Javaka’s book Radiant Child:The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is out now.
Louis has a new documentary out now called My Scientology Movie.
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- Paul Shaffer
- Javaka Steptoe
- Louis Theroux
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