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The Writers Panel

Nicholas Stoller

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Tv & Film, Tv, Writing, Movies, Hollywood, Screenwriting

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The director/co-writer of Neighbors 2, director and/or co-writer of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Five Year Engagement, Get Him to the Greek, and The Muppets, among others, discusses his start in TV, collaboration, emotional comedy, co-creating The Carmichael Show, and more. Neighbors 2 opens this Friday!


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0:00.0

Hey, writers, panel listener. This is me, Ben. Back in December, we put out an episode of this podcast called the Dead Pilot Society Backdoor Pilot, in which we presented the Dead Pilot Society, and we promised that it would become an ongoing concern. And that is still in the works. We will keep you posted on that as it comes up.

0:22.1

If you miss that episode, Dead Pilot Society is a series of live table reads of pilots

0:29.5

by established writers that were bought and developed but never shot.

0:34.0

So the writers have never heard these pilots performed out loud.

0:39.3

It was created by Andrew Reich, former Friends writer, current writer of many things, and he brought me in to

0:45.4

help out. On May 25th in Los Angeles, El Argo at the Cornet, we're doing our very first live to

0:51.6

the public dead pilot society featuring pilots by Matt

0:56.0

goarly of Super Ego and Amanda Lund, co-creator of Ghost Girls, a former guest of this show, as well

1:02.0

as a pilot by my writing partner and me, a show that we wrote for USA Network a few years

1:08.0

ago that we really love. We're excited to hear it performed live.

1:12.5

I can't tell you who is in this yet, but the lineup is going to be fantastic. It's May 25th, 8 p.m.

1:19.3

at Largo at the Coronet. For tickets, go to Largo-L.A.com or go to writerspanel.tumbler.com.

1:26.2

That's where I'll be posting all of the information,

1:29.5

links for tickets, as well as who the cast is going to be.

1:32.9

And it's going to be a really cool cast for these three pilots

1:36.4

that we're going to read on the 25th.

1:38.4

Hope to see you there.

1:39.8

Thanks as ever for listening.

1:42.7

Now entering nerdist.com.

1:45.8

Welcome to the Writers Panel.

1:47.3

I'm Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast.

1:50.1

I created the show because I wanted to talk to writers about the business and process of writing.

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