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Dead Pilots Society

Episode 160: Massholes written by Bill Callahan (Scrubs, Spin City)

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

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This is the table read for Massholes written by Bill Callahan (Scrubs, Spin City, The Goldbergs)

Transcript

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You know the thing and the 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 eyes yet there's a spooky surprise

0:13.0

And though you cannot revise

0:16.0

And nothing ever really dies The Dead Pilots is Welcome to Dead Pilots in sight

0:26.6

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.

0:51.2

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

0:55.0

Hey, just a reminder that we now have the first ever Dead Pilot Society merch for sale.

0:59.4

We've got T-shirts and mugs and stickers all on the MaxFundStore at maxfundstore.com.

1:05.5

They look great. Check it out. Show your Dead Pilot Society pride.

1:09.7

And thank you to everyone who came out to the

1:11.2

Illesion Theater on Sunday for our live show. COVID unfortunately knocked me out, so I was not there.

1:18.3

But it was great. We'll be bringing you those reads in the next couple of months.

1:22.5

Our dead pilot this month is Massholes by Bill Callahan. Bill is a true comedy lifer veteran. Way too many credits

1:32.7

for me to list here, but some of the highlights are Spin City, Scrubs, Syke, American Housewife,

1:39.3

the Goldbergs, many, many more. Massholes is a semi-autobiographical pilot about Bill's, based on Bill's

1:47.3

group of friends back in Massachusetts. If you like a good gang of friends ensemble comedy,

1:53.4

as I do, this is a really good one. And we put together an all-star cast of actors from the Boston

1:59.5

area, with a couple of exceptions from Nebraska and Kentucky.

2:04.3

But it was really fun hearing everyone before the read talk about the small Massachusetts towns that they're all from.

2:11.1

Our cast was Nicholas DiGosto from trial and error and criminal minds.

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