There aren't many ricalumni welcomed into as many homes every day as brendankirbytv '04. Every weekday morning his smiling face greets thousands of Rhode Islanders as co-host of therhodeshow. But before he was bringing laughs and #RICSpirit to the airwaves every morning, he was just a communications major at RIC and aspiring #funnyman filling notebooks with ideas for jokes and eventually interning at "The Late Show with David Letterman" in New York. 😆 Later, he requested an independent study so he could create his own late-night talk show. "It wasn't very good," he says, laughing, "but it was my first attempt, and I did it. I somehow got it on television, and I got the college credit." A few months after graduating from RIC, Kirby would bring the show back as a monthly late night comedy/variety/talk show called "Wicked Late with Brendan Kirby" on Rhode Island public-access television. From 2003-2012 he was host, executive producer, writer and editor of the show, although the job didn...