From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

What it's really about at the end of the day is trying to make the funniest show you humanly can and not caring.

You know, now you walk into a room and you insist that, you know, you can't possibly take this note because it's a terrible note.

And oh, by the way, did I tell you I'm the angriest man in television?

When it's going well, you assume that outcome is fair.

But, of course, everyone over the age of 12 knows that's not the case.

The box set had, you know, written in big, like, Sharpie on the side, Stevie Spielberg.

Sometimes guests give us such great interviews

that we can't fit everything into one show.

This week, we give you stuff that we saved

from the cutting room floor.

Veep showrunner David Mandel tells us

what Larry David David taught him about sitcom writing.

David Simon, co-creator of the Deuce,

explains why being labeled an SOB

while writing The Wire worked

to his advantage. Director and producer Sean Levy clears up what went wrong with his movie, Real Steel,

and Matt Reeves, director of the most recent Planet of the Apes movies and the next Batman film,

shares the crazy, fateful story of how he and JJ Abrams got hired as teens to repair

a famous director's very first movies.

But first on the news banter, Hurricane Harvey.

Stick around.

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