'Insecure' Showrunner Prentice Penny

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🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Prentice Penny, showrunner for 'Insecure', joins Sam to talk about the HBO comedy series, which just wrapped its second season. They also discuss what a showrunner does, how he got the job, collaborating with star and co-creator Issa Rae, diversity in television, why he likes Drake (and Sam doesn't), how he came to love television and writing as a kid, how he almost became a marine biologist, and black Twitter. Email the show at [email protected] and follow Sam on Twitter @samsanders.

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0:00.0	I'm Ophira Eisberg from Ask Me Another.
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0:07.4	Here Patrick Stewart dramatically read Taylor Swift lyrics or learn how many quills there
0:11.8	are on a porcupine.
0:13.6	Find Ask Me Another on the MPR One app or wherever you get podcasts.
0:17.1	Hey out Sam Sanders here, it's been a minute.
0:27.5	For today's deep dive, we're talking with someone at the top of his game from the world
0:31.5	of television.
0:32.5	Prentice Penny.
0:34.1	Show wonder for HBO's Insecure.
0:36.8	Insecure is this comedy series that just wrapped its second season this summer.
0:41.0	Its star and co-creator is Issa Rae.
0:43.2	May I heard her, she plays a 29 year old woman in the show whose life is just kind of
0:47.3	stalled.
0:48.3	And she's trying to figure out dating and relationships and identity and race and work
0:52.1	stuff and just being kind of awkward.
0:54.6	If you're not watching this show, trust me, you should be.
0:58.3	But there's no need to watch the show to enjoy this conversation.
1:01.9	Prentice and I cover TV, the Emmys, diversity and Hollywood, what a showrunner actually does,
1:08.4	how Prentice became a showrunner, and why five years ago no one was talking about showrunners
1:13.5	at all.
1:14.5	All of that's in the conversation.
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