Hey everyone welcome back to the screen writing life Meg is out today but Jeff and I are

going to be chatting with feature writer producer and showrunner Andy Breckman.

Andy Breckman is best known for creating Monk, which stars Tony Shalube as a private detective

with OCD and Multiple Fobias.

Monk was both the critical and commercial success during its run winning eight Emmys.

This year, Monk returned for a movie on Peacock called Mr Monk's Last Case, a Monk movie,

earning Andy yet another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television movie.

Andy's been working in comedy for years, starting as a writer on David Letterman's inaugural season

and eventually moving over to SNL, where he wrote for the show for nearly a decade.

On the feature side, Andy has written a number of studio comedies including Sergeant Philco starring Steve Martin.

Hi Andy, welcome to the show.

Hi guys, it's a pleasure. Thanks for

Thanks for inviting me. So we're really excited on your

210th episode.

210 it's a magic counter. I guess my line was busy. Well you have a movie out now we want to talk about.

No, I've been so busy. I couldn't have fit you in before this anyway. So we're really looking forward to chatting with you. I have lots of questions about your time on

S&L. But before we do we're gonna be talking about our weeks or what we like to call

Adventures in Screenwriting, so I'll go first.

So my week this week was not amazing.

I mean, I had a general, I am up for staffing on a project which is amazing and I wrote a pilot script and I'm working on another script and all of that is like yay I'm working I'm moving forward all that can be something or all of it can be nothing.

But it's hard to look at the big picture

when I don't really know what the little pieces are

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