Craig Mazin Talks 'Sheep Detectives,' 'The Last of Us' and Rooming With Ted Cruz
I'm Having an Episode
The Hollywood Reporter
4.6 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:34.1 | Hello, I'm Mikey O'Connell. I'm a writer and editor at The Hollywood Reporter, and this is I'm Having an episode. |
| 0:40.8 | Podcast about entertainment, good conversations, and the lengths to which I'm willing to go for just a little bit of attention. |
| 0:48.8 | This week's guest is Craig Mayzen. |
| 0:50.7 | He's a screenwriter you know very well from his work show running The Last of Us and Chernobyl. |
| 0:57.3 | Two Real Downers. He wrote The Hangover movies and his new movie The Sheep Detectives is out May 8th. |
| 1:05.7 | First, a correction and a confession. I made an offhand remark last week that Aline Brosh McKenna, the Devil |
| 1:11.9 | Wares Prada screenwriter, made a movie called You Can Have It All. Spiritually, I was correct. Literally |
| 1:18.7 | I was wrong. The film in question is 2011's I don't know how she does it, starring Sarah |
| 1:25.0 | Jessica Parker, a movie that was more of an interrogation |
| 1:28.2 | of having it all than a declaration that such a thing is possible. I apologize. As for the |
| 1:33.3 | confession, I may have exaggerated about my distaste for entourage. I did eventually arrive at a |
| 1:40.2 | distaste, but those first few seasons, I was watching pretty religiously, and I actually |
| 1:46.0 | modeled my wardrobe after Jerry Ferrar as Turtle. Big baseball caps, a few pairs of cartoonishly |
| 1:52.8 | large sneakers. I think I even bought like a really loud Argyle golf shirt. Sorry for this lapse |
| 2:00.1 | in integrity. If we lie about our past, we are doomed to repeat it. My schedule has forced me into a bit of a content desert. I haven't been to the movies in the last week, but I did rewatch 1991 John Candy Dramedy. Dramedy, it's not a drama. It's just a comedy. Delirious for possibly the 30th time in my life. If you've never |
| 2:19.0 | heard of it, it's a Tom Mancowitz movie about a bleared soap opera writer, John Candy, who, when |
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