Episode 167: John Enbom Interview(Party Down, Veronica Mars)

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

4.6 • 563 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

This is the After Show for Rich Dan Poor Dan by John Enbom, co-creator and showrunner of Party Down. You’ll hear about John’s Hollywood beginnings as a screenwriter, including writing the unsung slacker cinema classic, The Low Life. Then his transition into TV when his friend Rob Thomas hired him onto the staff of Veronica Mars. Andrew and John get deep into the unusual yearslong process that led to Party Down, and the insane story of how that show was made. Veronica Mars and Party Down fans definitely won’t want to miss this one.

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0:00.0	You know the thing and no one picked up your thing
0:05.0	And so you buried 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 the book cannot revise
0:16.0	And nothing ever really dies the Dead Pilot Society
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.
0:50.7	I'm Andrew Reich, the creator and host of Dead Pilot Society. First things first, we have
0:56.0	another live show coming up soon. It's on Sunday, March 16th at 2 o'clock at the Elysian Theater
1:02.9	in Los Angeles, and we will be reading not one but two episodes of a hilarious dead pilot,
1:10.3	I mean, I guess of a hilarious dead show, the pilot and
1:15.0	second episode, written by and starring the incredible Ricky Lindholm and Natasha Lagero.
1:22.0	Ricky and Natasha co-created and starred in the Comedy Central show Another Period, but you
1:27.4	know them from so many other things.
1:29.6	Ricky is one half of Garfunkel and Oates.
1:31.9	You've seen her in everything from Big Bang Theory to Knives Out to Wednesday.
1:36.4	Natasha, you know from her comedy, from Chelsea lately, as a voice actor and a million things.
1:42.8	We've got a great cast coming together for this.
1:44.9	It's going to be so much fun.
1:45.7	Go to a lesion theater.com to snag your tickets.
1:49.6	It's on Sunday, March 16th.
1:51.8	Okay, this is the after show for Rich Dan Poor Dan by John Enbaum, co-creator and showrunner
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