THE COMEDIANS' Ben Wexler

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

The Comedians co-creator and showrunner talks about his new FX show, working with a comedy legend, who steers the ship on an auteur-driven show, his time on season 4 of Community, season 4 of Arrested Development, and the only season of The Michael J. Fox Show. The Comedians premieres on FX on April 9, and it's really, really good!

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0:39.3	Hey everyone, this is Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the Nerdist Writers'
0:45.3	panel.
0:46.3	I myself am a television writer, having written for such shows as supernatural, Nickelodeon,
0:52.3	Super Ninjas, and I'm currently working for the DreamWorks program
0:55.3	Puss and Boots, which is available right now via Netflix. Check it out. It's pretty fun. I am also
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1:14.3	It's the Nerdist writers panel and his hosted by Ben Blacker where he gets a bunch of writers and he asks him lots of questions and it's starting now.
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