Andy Breckman May 24, 2019
Tag: comedy writers
One of TV’s Greatest Comedy Writers, Chris Kelly January 3, 2019
Chris Kelly writes for HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He won an Emmy for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. He’s been an editor at Spy and the National Lampoon, a staff writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, head writer at Politically Incorrect, and a writer/producer on a half dozen network situation comedies, some long-running and some that barely aired at all.
Surviving Chris Kelly Episode 1002
Chris Kelly writes for HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He won an Emmy for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. He’s been an editor at Spy and the National Lampoon, a staff writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, head writer at Politically Incorrect, and a writer/producer on a half dozen network situation comedies, some long-running and some that barely aired at all.
ZACK FORD is the LGBTQ editor for Thing Progress.
Merrill Markoe September 25, 2018
Merrill Markoe’s latest book is “The Indignities of Being A Woman.” She has won five Emmys for Late Night with David Letterman and a Writer’s Guild Award for HBO’s Not Necessarily the News. To learn more visit MerrillMarkoe.com.
Comedy Writer Mike Reiss From The Simpsons
Comedy Writer, and Author of “Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons,” Mike Reiss talks about his 30 year journey writing for The Simpsons. Also on today’s show host of The PETA Podcast Emil Guillermo, plus Comics Joe DeVito and Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling.
Like Tolstoy,
I write to be read on the toilet.Mike Reiss author of “Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons,”
Nostalgia For George W. Bush
Comedy writers David Sirus and Bob Powers get nostalgic for the Bush administration, Trump’s commitment to ignoring the truth, John Lewis, repealing Obamacare, the message Democrats should be sending to working class voters and Bill Kristol.
Then Jenny Rowland on her latest article How Exxon Won the 2016 Election.
Jenny is the Research and Advocacy Associate for the Public Lands Project at Center for American Progress.
Then Mattathias Schwartz from The Intercept joins us from Capitol Hill to discuss Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, General Mattis, and tells us why civilian rule of the military is enshrined into our constitution.