How are you excited to be having a conversation with someone.

When they have that revelation, it begins making the show pretty cute.

How does this work as a national story?

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Water. Can you tell Josh to get him a water?

Josh, get him a water.

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I'm David Remnick.

Don't be frightened, but we're going to be talking about the election today, and we're going to start with studio notes on the 2016 presidential election screenplay.

So let's talk about your script, the 2016 presidential election. Overall, we love

what you've done. So many unexpected twists. How do you come up with this stuff? Thank you.

But we feel like we're not quite there yet. We do have some notes. Should we just jump right in?

Page one. Hmm. Does Donald have to be orange? We're just not sure how that would read visually. Seems like it would be sort of grotesque. And personally, I don't get what a conch-shaped hair hat, the texture of corn silk, would look like, but it's certainly going to eat into

our effects budget. Also, please cut the word rapist from his opening line.

Sure. I can... Page two. I'm confused. Why does everybody already hate Hillary? I think we need

some sort of explanation here. Like, what if she used to be a hitman or she's an about

Satanist or something? This flashback where we learned that she was really sneaky about

emails years earlier doesn't do it. Okay. Age six. Are we supposed to be rooting for Jeb?

All the early emphasis on Jeb is distracting. Maybe get rid of this character altogether.

And this is a minor note. If Ben is the world's best brain surgeon, why is they written like Pauly Shore with carbon monoxide poisoning?

Is this anti-comedy?

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