Spotlight on Director Beth McCarthy-Miller (Ep. 268)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Director Beth McCarthy-Miller participates in a conversation with Shanta Fripp and Sarah Brooke on McCarthy-Miller's career as a filmmaker. She shares details from behind the scenes of her career including directing live television titles such as Saturday Night Live (for 11 years), the Super Bowl, The Sound of Music Live and half-hour comedies like 30 Rock, Veep, Modern Family, and Bob Hearts Abishola.

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0:00.0	Because the big thing about comedy is, you know, there's moments that are magic.
0:06.2	Like on a show like 30 Rock, you had a ton of people who are incredible improvisers in it.
0:11.3	And they were just little moments.
0:12.7	It was a very scripted series.
0:14.2	But there were little moments sometimes that, you know, somebody said something a different way.
0:18.3	And the reaction was different.
0:19.8	And it made it so much funnier.
0:23.7	Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:29.1	Today's episode features the recent event spotlight on director Beth McCarthy Miller, which was hosted by the DGA's Focus on Women Committee.
0:36.7	Ms. McCarthy Miller's directorial credits include the television series MTV Unplugged,
0:41.6	the Ben Stiller show, numerous high-profile concerts, and 11 seasons of Saturday Night Live.
0:48.1	A 13-time DGA award nominee, she won twice in the comedy series category for her 2017 beep episode Chicklet and her 2013 30 Rock episode Hogcock last lunch.
0:59.6	Please enjoy Ms. McCarthy Miller's conversation with fellow directors Sarah Brooke and Shanta Fripp in front of a virtual audience,
1:06.7	wherein they discuss the collaborative nature of comedy, whether Ms. McCarthy Miller has a preference between single camera and multi-camera directing,
1:14.3	and what it was like to be a female director in the male-dominated environment of Saturday Night Live.
1:22.3	And what I would love to start this conversation with is how did you get your start 30 years ago and what was it like
1:29.2	breaking in as a female director? I got my start as an intern at MTV when I was in college. I thought
1:38.2	I would go into hard news and do something, you know, to help the universe like the two of you are doing.
1:46.6	I entered it CNN and didn't enjoy it. So I had DJed all through college. I was very interested just in the
1:54.8	television industry in general. And when I graduated from college, I got an internship at MTV,
1:59.1	which kind of melded two of my favorite
2:01.7	things, music and television. And I got a job at the end of the summer being the assistant to the
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