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Dead Pilots Society

Episode 151: Mark Gross (How We Roll, Mike & Molly) Interview (Codependent After Show)

Dead Pilots Society

Ben Blacker and Andrew Reich

Tv & Film, Dead Pilots Society, Tv Pilots, Tv Reviews, Andrew Reich, Documentary, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Ben Blacker, Sitcoms, Society & Culture

4.6563 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

This is our interview with Mark Gross (How We Roll, Mike & Molly) regarding his pilot Codependent.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You know the thing and no one picked up your thing

0:05.0

And so you bury the thing

0:07.0

That's not the end of the thing

0:10.0

Don't you like jazz yet there's a spooky surprise

0:13.0

And though you cannot devise

0:16.0

And nothing ever really dies. Welcome to Dead Pilot Society, the show that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold and developed at networks and streamers, but never produced and gives them the table reads they never got a chance to have.

0:50.1

I'm Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society.

0:54.3

Folks, we have a live show coming up this Sunday at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles.

0:59.6

That's this Sunday, June 30th at 2 p.m.

1:02.6

Two great pilots, great casts.

1:04.9

We've got Leah Lewis from Nancy Drew and the half of it.

1:08.3

Jonathan Tucker from Westworld and Kingdom, Poonham Patel from

1:12.8

Ghosts, Beth Dover from Orange is the New Black and Children's Hospital. We've got Nancy

1:17.8

Lenehan who's been in everything. We've got so many great people. Go to eletiontheter.com to get

1:23.2

your tickets. We'll also put a link in the show notes. It's going to be so much fun. Great pilots,

1:28.4

great casts. Come spend a couple of hours on a Sunday with us. This is the after show for

1:34.2

co-dependent featuring my interview with Mark Gross. Mark was a writer and producer on Mike

1:39.4

and Molly for its entire run. He was on Gary Unmarried, Man With a Plan, created How We Roll with Pete Holmes.

1:46.5

As you'll hear, Mark and I have known each other a bit for many years, but this was a chance

1:50.8

for me to really get to know him. We talk about how he caught the comedy bug early, which led to him

1:55.7

being a touring stand-up comic for years, how fellow comic Rodney Carrington helped him break into writing TV,

2:03.0

what he learned from Chuck Lorry during his many years on Mike and Molly, and the one key word

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