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WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 525 - Alec Sulkin

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.629.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Comedy writer Alec Sulkin found success on Family Guy and the movie Ted. But as he explains to Marc, the road to good TV writing jobs is long and winding, filled with connections, coincidences, injustice and nepotism. Alec explains how he made it through the long slog, got past the disappointment of his own show getting canceled, found personal popularity on Twitter and subsequently got himself in hot water.

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0:00.0

Fuck the game!

0:01.0

Alright, let's do this.

0:10.5

How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fuck in here is, what the

0:13.4

fuck abilities, what the fuck sticks, what the fuck adelix, what the fuck inux, what the

0:19.8

fuck are reekens, what the fuck adeltheans, what the fuck burgers.

0:23.5

I am Mark Maren, this is WTF, Alec Sulkin is on the show today, Alex Sulkin, the comedy

0:31.2

writer.

0:32.2

Many of you know his work from the family guy, his big family guy writer, you also wrote

0:37.9

the film Ted with Seth Nick Farlin and also he wrote the million ways to die in the West.

0:44.1

Funny guy, but it's interesting about Alex Sulkin as I don't really know him, I had not

0:47.6

really met him, but he has a very consistent Twitter feed, the Sulk on Twitter, and I'm

0:53.4

odd in the way that I saw his picture on Twitter and I'd read his tweets and I'd built

0:58.5

all personality for this guy, I figured I got a sense of this guy, I know this guy, he's

1:03.3

a joke writer, but I just, I look at the picture, I don't know how many of you do that or how

1:07.3

many of you have this fantastic ability, I think I'm a latent control freak, right under

1:13.5

the chaos, but I sort of want to box people, I want to box people in there, how easy is

1:19.9

it to box someone into an avatar pick, they're already in a box, and then to just assume

1:25.2

that what they're writing and what pictures they have there or who their friends are, it's

1:28.6

like you can completely in your mind and caps away to human being, and this was a guy

1:32.8

I'm like, this guy's got some, Hutzpah, this guy's got some funny in him, this guy's interesting,

1:39.8

he's dark, I relate to him, I believe he's a kindred spirit to me.

1:45.9

That's what I thought when I started reading his Twitter feed, I knew he dated Sarah Silver

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