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Get Mean
Rob Long discusses the three stages of a writing staff – when everybody's nice, when everybody's funny, and when everybody's mean. It happens fast.
By Rob Long • • 3m ListenWhen you work on the writing staff of a television show, you end up becoming close to a lot of other writers, which is not the same thing as being friends with a lot of writers. I mean, often that's what happens, but it's the reverse of the normal pattern, where friendliness grows slowly and gradually deepens into closeness....