From: St. Paul Dispatch*

Date: February 17, 1983

Headline: Backstage: Finn's Dropping Gags, but New Club May Open

Author: Protzman, Bob

Page(s): B2

Note: Hodgson on Letterman show. This is from a column.

Speaking of comedy in the Twin Cities, Joel Hodgson, a "graduate" of the clubs here and an emigrant to Los Angeles last November, was a big hit Tuesday night/Wednesday morning on David Letterman show "Late Night" on WTCN-TV, Channel 11.

Letterman gave the deadpan comic/"magician" nearly 15 minutes air time, and Hodgson had the New York studio audience laughing hard and often. The only problem was Letterman had trouble pronouncing Hodgson's name, a difficulty some of us share. Maybe the young comic, with all that potential, ought to change it or shorten it to Hodges.