Hey, remember Rodney Rothman? You know, the former Late Show with David Letterman writer who briefly created a splash in 2000 when he penned an article for The New Yorker called "My Fake Job" that had him wandering into a dot-com in the death throes and just sort of hanging out and pretending to work there. The article was optioned before it even hit the newsstands! Dave Eggers included it in 2002 edition of The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Rodney was set.

But then it was revealed that some of his facts were a bit fishy and New Yorker editor David Remnick had to publicly apologize for it.

Anyway, if you were wondering what happened to that guy, he's doing okay. Actually, he's doing more than okay.

Rodney's living the dream, writing O.C.D. jokes for Committed, NBC's great white post-Friends hope. He doesn't need your stinkin' New Yorker and its precious fact-checking department: he has that guy from Family Matters (who, by the way, is huge now!). So, let this be a lesson to all you monkeyfisherman out there who think your careers are over because of a little fact-fudging: you're always welcome in Hollywood. No one reads there.
Rodney Rothman [IMDB entry]
Committed [NBC]
Magazine apologizes for article with made-up details [AP, CNN]