From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

This week on The Business, Business, really, really, all white life, he doesn't clean. He's with him? Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, sketch comedians and screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant.

They're known for shows like Reno 911 and The State, but they've made most of their money writing big studio comedies.

In their new book, writing movies for fun and profit,

they use their trademark humor to share some of the very practical secrets to their success.

But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood, everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm afraid he's going to Hollywood, Hollywood.

I'm joined by my fellow banterer, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

So gigantic news in the media world.

And it's breaking as we are recording, and by the time we are on the air,

who knows what will have happened. But right now, I think it's safe to say, chaos and pandemonium in News Corp over this amazing hacking, phone hacking scandal at the British paper, which will be

no more, News of the World, closed down because of this, as I said, burgeoning scandal.

It's not a newspaper that's probably read by a lot of people in the United States, but it is the largest circulating English language paper in the world with about 3 million readers.

This is a scandal that has enveloped News Corporation. Rupert

Murdoch's company, James Murdoch is the one who gave the news to the newspaper that

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