Talking Simpsons - The Lew Morton Interview

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🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

To close out our week of bonus interviews, this time around, we're chatting with the great Lew Morton! If you're a Talking Futurama listener, you likely know his name from our podcasts about his very funny episodes, like "Amazon Women in the Mood" and "Mother's Day." But Lew is also attached to legendary TV comedies like NewsRadio, Veep, Silicon Valley, and most recently, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe—as well as the recent series reboot of MTV's brain dead duo. Listen in to learn about his long career in the world of comedy writing, and the secret formula to what makes Beavis and Butt-Head work!

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0:00.0	I heartily endorse this event or product!
0:14.0	Hello, hello everybody, and welcome to Talking Simpsons. I am one of your host Bob Mackie,
0:17.6	the Slurms McKenzie Enjoyer, and who is here with me today.
0:20.8	I am fortunately not suffered from death by snoozingo, it's Henry Gilbert.
0:24.8	That's right, and yes, we have another interview for you this week,
0:27.4	and it's somebody who never worked on the Simpsons, but we're still calling this a Talking
0:30.8	Simpsons interview because it's our most famous show, so deal with it.
0:33.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:34.3	But you're going to enjoy this because today we're talking to Lou Morton,
0:38.5	an amazing writer. He's written for a news radio, Futurama Vipe, a Silicon Valley, and of course,
0:46.0	he is a writer on the new Beavons and Butt-head movie, and he is the showrunner
0:50.4	of the new Beavons and Butt-head series on Paramount Plus, so he basically has touched everything
0:54.5	that we love, and we talked about him for about an hour, about his entire career,
0:58.4	and some very specific Beavons and Butt-head questions.
1:01.2	Yes, yes, so if you're enjoying the new season, and by the way, we recorded this
1:05.9	when only four episodes were out. He teases some future ones, but so if you guys are like,
1:10.4	why don't they ask about episode six? We haven't seen it yet, guys.
1:13.6	Yes, right now it's Saturday, August 20th.
1:15.4	Yes, yeah, butting this directly in time.
1:17.4	But he's here so many great stories about Beavons and Butt-head, and I really loved hearing his
1:23.6	theory on how to write Beavons and Butt-head, like what level of stupidity can you write them at?
1:29.8	How do you make a story work with them? And we've been loving both Do the Universe and
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