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Dead Pilots Society

Episode 178: Chris Marcil & Sam Johnson Interview (Blessed and Highly Favored, NewsRadio, Beavis and Butt-Head)

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

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Sam have been through it all. They’ve seen more writers’ rooms than most, and they’re still at it, working together and “Semi-separately”. They get into what that means and what it looks like for two longtime creative partners to evolve their collaboration.

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 buried the thing

0:07.0

That's not the end of the thing

0:10.0

Don't you let's eyes yet there's a spooky surprise

0:13.0

And though you cannot revise

0:16.0

And nothing ever really dies.

0:46.1

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.

0:49.8

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

0:52.6

And I've got some pretty exciting news.

0:55.5

So longtime listeners of this show are probably familiar with the pilot

0:57.6

Eternally Yours by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman.

1:00.7

We originally recorded it live at the Hollywood Improv

1:03.5

before the pandemic.

1:04.5

We released it as episode 47 in 2020.

1:08.0

And then we re-ran it at the beginning of this year

1:10.4

because it's just always been one of my favorite episodes we've done. Well then we re-ran it at the beginning of this year, because it's just always been one of

1:11.6

my favorite episodes we've done. Well, we just learned that CBS has ordered a pilot for the show.

1:18.7

So this may end up being the first pilot that Dead Pilot Society has brought back from the dead,

1:25.9

which seems somehow appropriate for a show about vampires.

1:29.3

We'll keep you updated on this very exciting story.

1:32.3

And if you haven't listened to it or listened to my interview with The Joe's, you really should.

1:36.7

It's a great pilot.

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