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The Michael Scott Podcast Company - An Office Podcast

286: Brent Forrester on Making The Office

The Michael Scott Podcast Company - An Office Podcast

Cloud10

Tv & Film, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is an interview with writer/producer/director Brent Forrester! Brent is our first guest who worked on The Office—he worked on the show from seasons 3 through 9, with numerous writing, directing, and producing credits from that time. He’s also written for shows like The Simpsons, The Ben Stiller Show, King of the Hill, and more. Our conversation covers a wide range of topics, including the art of comedy writing, what it was like crafting some of our favorite episodes, and even writing for animated comedies. It was a fantastic conversation and we hope you enjoy it!  Brent also teaches courses on writing TV comedy, his next class on WRITING THE PILOT starts on February 9! You can check it out here: https://www.brentforrester.com/webinar  Support our show and become a member of Scott's Tots on Patreon! For only $5/month, Tots get ad-free episodes plus exclusive access to our monthly Mailbag episodes where we casually pick through every single message/question/comment we receive. We also have Season 2 of our Ted Lasso podcast Biscuits with the Boss available to our Patrons, as well as our White Lotus Christmas Special, Party Down, and unreleased episodes of this show. Oh, and Tots get access to exclusive channels on our Discord. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.8

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0:11.7

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0:16.4

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0:20.0

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0:23.4

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0:29.1

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0:30.9

He's crawling.

0:32.6

Is Mazy crawling?

0:33.5

Hey, all right.

0:34.1

He's not crawling.

0:35.4

Dude, he just started doing it and it's, it is, everything has changed.

0:41.6

I'm so scared.

0:42.6

Instantly, instantly.

0:46.9

Because it's funny, because it seems like they did opposites.

0:50.8

She was able to sit up and he was, he sat up after like he only just started sitting

0:56.0

he's amazing great at sitting she can like she's so good at sitting bro oh my god she can just sit

1:02.8

there sometimes she can even not have her hands down uh no she's not really doesn't seem interested

1:09.5

in crawling she She, she,

1:11.3

she flops around and sits, but she has learned to clap and everything, that's so,

1:17.4

everything's changed. You guys need to bring them together so myelow can crawl and Macy can

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