Biography

After working with Steve Allen, the originator of the tonight show personally wrote NBC exec Rick Ludwin that Brian was the logical choice for a late night berth.

As a television morning host, Brian did the last interview with Henny Youngman before his death on KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland.

Friend and protégé of Rita Moreno.

It was Carl Reiner who inspired Brian to write Genuine. Upon asking the legendary comedy writers advice on the approach he should take with the script for his one man show, Reiner told him to 'find the piece of ground that you alone stand on, that nobody else in the world does and write from there.

Told by Rush Limbaugh that he could be a huge star in national talk radio if he'd only swing to the far right in his rhetoric. Copeland replied, "I have to look at myself in the morning when I shave.".