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Getting close. Previews of my play A OR B? begin Wednesday at the Falcon Theatre. This is my weekly report on the process of getting one of these bad boys mounted. After three weeks in the rehearsal hall things shifted into high gear last week...

"Beating" jokes

When is something funny enough? That’s a little hard to say since every example is different and every case is subjective. But as a general rule, whenever I write a joke I ask myself two questions.Is it funny?What would be funnier?Just getting...

Did USA welcome our characters?

Here’s a question a reader posed yesterday that I thought I would address today.Hamid asked: When are we gonna hear about the new pilot you mentioned has been picked up? We just learned the fate last week. David Isaacs and I had sold a pilot to the...

Friday Questions

It’s Friday. You have questions. Let’s go.Les leads off. You have mentioned in the past you cast Aaron Paul in a pilot (and Kat Dennings I believe for the same pilot). I do not recall if the network requested his part be re-cast or whether the show...

Stop crying already!

Is it possible to do a reality show without having someone cry? It’s gotten beyond ridiculous.In the early days of television there was a game show called QUEEN FOR A DAY. Women would compete for the saddest sob stories. It was one icky tear-jerker...

Dealing with horrible bosses

Great article in GQ about horrible bosses in Hollywood. It centers on writers/showrunners (although to be fair, the worst writer boss is Mother Teresa compared to the way some agents treat their assistants. Picture: 12 YEARS A SLAVE but more degrading.)....