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IOWA CITY — For the last 12 years of world-bending events worthy of both critical analysis and comedic reprieve in an ever-shifting entertainment landscape of streaming, strikes, and corporate mergers, University of Iowa alum Eric Leiderman has had a front-row seat as producer for the news and political satire talk show “Late Night With Seth Meyers.”

But his path to that producer’s chair wasn’t straight or clear when he first arrived on the UI campus as an undergraduate from Chicagoland in 1995, earning his bachelor’s in communications in 1999.

“I did not want to wear a suit. I did not want to go to grad school,” he told The Gazette of his postgraduation plans. “I was very anti-authority and

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