You can't get bigger than Sia as far as a powerhouse voice to come in on talent show night to sing a song. Forget the singing and the performing, which is like what I'm blown away with every time. She was so excited to do that dressing room scene. When you get a big celebrity like that, the entire schedule gets built around, like, you shoot about as fast as possible. Whatever their schedule is, your schedule backs into that. with company retreat, it's like, no, no, we have a talent show that's going on from four to six tonight. Like, we need a celebrity that can show up between four and six because they need to be at the rock and grab on talent show. It's not filter on see a schedule. It's built around the talent show schedule. Hello and welcome to Obsess the podcast.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.

And today on the show, we are talking to two of the genius minds behind one of my favorite shows on TV right now.

Jury Duty presents Company Retreat.

Yes, today on the show, I'm talking to the co-showrunner, Lee Eisenberg, who is the Emmy-nominated

writer who spent years working on The Office, and director Jake Samansky, who got his

start at Funnier Die and SNL. They both collaborate on this brilliant show, jury duty, which is

basically a very elaborate prank show show where instead of embarrassing someone,

it turns them into the hero of their own story. Everyone in the show is a very funny improv actor,

except for the central character who is a real person. So last season, it was Ronald Gladden,

who took part in a fake jury. This season, it's Anthony Normanden, who took part in a fake jury.

This season, it's Anthony Norman, who was a temp at a fake company on a fake company retreat,

and, you know, hilarity ensues in so many insane ways that I can't even explain to you in this moment. I could not wait to talk to Lee and Jake about how in the world they pulled off this TV miracle again, now that the

final two episodes are available to stream on Amazon Prime video. So let's get into it now.

Here's my conversation with Lee Eisenberg and Jake Samansky.

Lee Eisenberg and Jake Samansky, welcome to Obsess the Podcast.

Thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having us.

Thanks for having us.

I have so many questions about this new season that you guys put together, as you can imagine.

But I do like to start these conversations with a question, which is, what is the first piece of pop culture that you each remember

being just really obsessed with as a kid growing up?

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