'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, we're re-listening to Jesse's interview with the great Amy Sherman Palladino. She's the creator of the hit television show "The Gilmore Girls" as well as the critically-acclaimed series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." Her signature writing style is beautifully verbose with characters often expressing themselves with clever "blink and you'll miss them" - style zingers that reward those willing to pay extra attention to the dialogue. Her work on Maisel includes all of the above as well as ensuring that everything down to the set decoration is accurate to the era she's depicting. Amy chats with Bullseye about making the decision to leave behind ballet to pursue television writing, pushing forward creatively despite setbacks and the impact her parents had on her career choices. Plus, we make some room to talk about bringing 1960s New York to life.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:19.6	Coming to you from my home office in Los Angeles, it's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Ford.
0:24.6	Amy Sherman-Paladino has worked on some of television's most beloved comedies. She started
0:29.6	out as a staff writer on Roseanne back in the early 1990s. She went on to create the
0:34.3	Gilmore Girls, maybe part of that one. These days, she's the creator of the Marvelous
0:39.2	Mrs. Maisel. The show is about Midge Maisel and her dysfunctional family. Midge is a housewife
0:45.5	who lives in 1950s, New York. She finds out her husband is having an affair and decides
0:50.5	to channel her pain into a stand-up comedy career. The show has won its fair share of the
0:56.1	awards, a pee body, a golden globe, a truckload of Emmys. In fact, we just got word that
1:00.9	the show is up for 20 Emmys this year, 20-0. So we figured now is a good time to replay
1:07.9	my conversation with Amy Sherman-Paladino from last year. One of Amy's superpowers,
1:13.3	I think, is writing scenes with quick punchy dialogue between characters. Here's an example.
1:19.2	This is a clip from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Midge and her manager, Suzie, are at a TV
1:23.8	studio Suzie's got Midge her first television appearance and it's every comic stream
1:29.0	breakthrough booking a telephone.
1:53.8	Amy Sherman-Paladino, welcome to Bullseye, it's nice to have you on the show.
2:17.7	I'm glad to hear that. Not 100% sure if it was sincere, but it's sincere as I can
2:25.4	muster on the night before a table read. That's what you get.
2:27.9	Now we're talking, what's the table read tomorrow?
2:31.1	Tomorrow we read the last episode of season 3.
2:36.0	Are you nervous about it because things have gone poorly or simply because what you
2:42.2	have written is now going to come alive and you could potentially be embarrassed?
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