Several years ago, stand-up comedian Steve Mazan was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer. Not knowing how much longer he had to live, he immediately set out to achieve his life-long dream: performing comedy on The Late Show with David Letterman.

Mazan's goal became reality when he appeared on the Friday, Sept. 4 edition of Letterman's show. Read more about it by clicking the link below:

http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/dying-to-do-letterman--568

For another inspiring story of a comic achieving a long sought goal (in this case, appearing on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson), listen to our interview with Tom Dreesen on the archives page of TVConfidential.net. 

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