Bill Lawrence

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Bill Lawrence (Bad Monkey, Ted Lasso, Scrubs) is a writer, director, and show runner. Bill joins the Armchair Expert to discuss not watching his friends’ shows, how powerful the concept of story can be, and what having a renaissance later in life is like. Bill and Dax talk about what it’s like to be related to a famous family, the path to being a comedy writer, and how hard it is to build a world on screen. Bill explains why he wanted to transition from network to streaming, how difficult it is to make a show that relates to everyone, and the process of writing for specific actors.

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0:00.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to armchair expert early and ad free right now.
0:06.2	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:09.9	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:13.6	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert, experts on expert.
0:17.0	I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Lawrence.
0:20.3	Oh, hi.
0:21.6	Completing Bad Monkey Week.
0:24.0	We had Vince on Monday.
0:25.0	Yep.
0:26.0	Which aired on Tuesday.
0:27.0	Just kidding.
0:29.0	Call back, fast forward, he's right.
0:31.0	Fast forward, go backwards. And then today then today of course we have Bill Lawrence who is one of the co-creators of Bad Monkey, but he's also
0:39.3	a writer, a director, a producer, award-winning.
0:44.0	He created Scrubs.
0:48.1	Co-created Cougartown, co-created Shrinking,
0:50.6	Ted Lasso Spinn City, and now Bad Monkey.
0:53.6	Legend.
0:54.2	He's a monster.
0:55.4	And a sweetie.
0:56.2	Yeah.
0:57.2	Really, really good boy.
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