How Will Forte Became 'The Last Man on Earth'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A TV show about the one man left alive after a virus wipes out the rest of humanity may not sound very funny, but Will Forte saw great comedic potential in the idea. Now he's Emmy nominated for writing and starring in Fox's The Last Man on Earth.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center.
0:03.0	Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having.
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0:18.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:24.7	By doing something that is potentially turning off some viewers, there is that flip side of it,
0:31.6	which is there are other people who might like it more. But certainly it's not a great
0:35.6	strategy. It hasn't paid off for me in the past,
0:37.8	but I keep doing it. Former Saturday Night Live comedian Will Forte is talking about making his
0:43.3	character on his hit show The Last Man on Earth just a little too creepy for some viewers' tastes.
0:49.1	The Emmy-nominated Forte explains how he came up with a comedy about what happens when everyone else in the world is dead.
0:56.2	Okay, not everyone.
0:57.9	But first on the news banterer, the letters of the day on Sesame Street are HB and O.
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1:10.3	I am joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.
1:14.3	Hello, Matt.
1:15.0	Hi there.
1:16.0	So, Sesame Street, they've entered a five-year deal with HBO.
1:20.6	HBO will have first crack at new episodes of Sesame Street.
1:24.8	You'll still see them on PBS, but you'll have to wait several months.
1:28.2	And really, this is like there's a clear symbol of what is going on in the TV business and the
1:34.5	streaming business. They couldn't spell it out more how important this is for HBO to have this
1:40.0	type of content. Yeah, I mean, they have been really not the leader in this area.
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