Friends Writers Room Reunion Part 1
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2015
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Greenstein & Jeff Strauss (season 1; later work includes co-creating Partners), Alexa Junge (seasons 1-5; later work includes Grace and Frankie [with Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman]; United States of Tara; Once and Again), and Adam Chase (seasons 1-6; post-Friends work includes The Crazy Ones; Mom; creating Clone) discuss the earliest days of the ground-breaking sitcom from participating in the punch-up the pilot script with creators Marta Kauffman, David Crane, and Kevin Bright, to getting hired for the writing staff, mining their lives for stories, the long hours, the democracy of the room, arguments, jokes, and lots more. PLUS: Enormous thanks to Rhett Miller (Old 97's), Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), and Kate Micucci (Garfunkel and Oates) on their musical contributions to this week's show. They are SO GOOD.
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| 0:42.3 | Hey everyone, this is Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the Nerdist Writers Panel. |
| 0:48.3 | I myself am a television writer, having written for such shows as Supernatural, Nickelodeon, |
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| 1:18.2 | So excited about today's very special episode and I have a lot of people to thank for helping |
| 1:23.1 | me to put it together. This is indeed the Friends Room Reunion, Part 1. We're really going to look at a |
| 1:30.9 | couple of pivotal rooms, the writers of which have gone on to create shows, to run shows, |
| 1:39.5 | to be key parts in other people's shows in their rooms. And I thought it would be interesting to kind of find out where these people came from |
| 1:46.8 | and how the rooms worked. |
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