LA Podfest
The Writers Panel
Ben Blacker
4.7 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2015
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Two rounds in this live episode because not everyone could fit on the stage at once! First, hear Unreal co-creators Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; co-creator, Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce) and The Brink co-creators Kim Benabib and Roberto Benabib (Weeds; Ally McBeal) discuss comedy styles, going dark, and more. Then, returning pals Jeff Greenstein (Mom; Will & Grace), Josh Friedman (creator, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Stephen Falk (creator, You're the Worst), and Phillip Iscove (co-creator, Sleepy Hollow) join newcomer Will Widger (upcoming feature Lumberjanes) to discuss the state of the industry, their processes, and more.
Recorded live at LA Podfest, September 10, 2015.
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| 0:00.0 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
| 0:05.0 | Last live writers panel of the year, writer pals, and it's in my hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 0:13.0 | On November 14th, I'll be talking with Joe Hill at Brookline Booksmith. |
| 0:17.0 | We rescheduled this from September. I'm so excited to sit down with Joe. He's a great |
| 0:22.3 | writer, a great guy. That should be a lot of fun. And of course, it benefits 826 Boston. So come on out |
| 0:28.2 | to that. Find details at writerspanel.tumbler.com. Hi, everybody. We're about to get started, |
| 0:34.5 | but first, guess what? |
| 0:35.9 | What? |
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| 0:50.3 | Get a free audiobook of your choice at audiopodcast.com slash thrilling. Yeah. |
| 0:59.1 | It's the nerd is writers panel and it's hosted by Ben Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers |
| 1:03.3 | and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now so this will be the end of the theme. |
| 1:07.5 | By a round of applause before we get started and our time is so limited and have so many panelists, but I'm going to fuck around for a minute. |
| 1:14.3 | Before we get started, by round of applause, how many of you are familiar with the Nerdist Writers Panel podcast? |
| 1:19.7 | Oh, that's great. Okay. Vaguely. Okay, so you know how it works. We're going to bring up some professional television writers. We're going to talk to them for a little bit. I'm hoping to get questions from you guys as well. We'll see what kind of time we run out of. I did not know |
| 1:32.3 | the stage was going to be so small. So I booked 12 people. So we're going to do this in shifts. |
| 1:43.1 | And I think Josh and Jeff, if |
| 1:46.0 | during the first shift you have something to say, |
| 1:47.8 | by all means, run up. |
| 1:52.4 | My name is Ben Black, I'm a professional |
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