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So my guest today is a man who can neither focus nor hold a job.

He has written for everyone from Snoop and and and martha stewart to to Nikki Glazer to doing roasts of bob saget William Shatner this man has written jokes for Flava Flav ladies and gentlemen

Chris McGuire what's up Chris how you doing man thanks for having me here. Yes, I have definitely the last

couple of years being in the audience business, as you know, it's been really hard to hold the job.

It has. So let's get right into it because you write for comics. And I did a little, I wrote a few jokes, more for hosts and stuff like that. But

how do you do it when someone comes to you and they want a writer? George Lopez, like, hey, I'm

doing so and so. Do you watch him and try to write those jokes? Or do you write your jokes and

give him to him, see what he likes?

And also, what's it like writing for a comic versus writing for a celebrity?

Okay.

Well, what I do, I started this a while back, and particularly when I was, when I'm running a room I always do this but I do it for

myself always is okay hold on because we uh explain to the audience what you mean when you're running

a room sorry when I'm like the head writer or if I'm the showrunner or something like that

there's a a group of writers and they they usually meet in the writer's room and so they'll

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