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January 01, 1990 - January 05, 2013 + Martini Shot
Did We Lose You? 
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Writing is supposed to be a solitary thing. A lonely life. Not in the television business. Writers for television are positively surrounded by people. Executives,...
Tomatoes
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Here's what it's come to. I take a simple kitchen timer – this one is shaped like a tomato – and I set it for...
Does This Work?
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One morning, a few years ago, when I had a show in production, I got a call from an executive at the studio. He was...
My Friend's Place
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Writers, like farmers, can find the bad news in any kind of weather. When it rains, a little too much, farmers complain about the bumper...
Important Phone Calls
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Let This One Go
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Official Transcript
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A lot of companies now offer a cool service. They'll take your strings of voice-mails and automatically transcribe them into text. There's an iPhone app...
What Really Happened
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I have a friend who is a psychiatrist. I once asked her what she does when she thinks a patient is lying to her. "How...
David Lloyd, RIP
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In January of 1990, almost twenty years ago, I pitched a joke in the writers' room of TV's long-running, phenomenally popular comedy Cheers. The actual...
Cave
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So, every writer has a Sinatra moment – you know what I mean, a moment when you got a note or a request from the...
Part of the Process
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I have a friend who is working on a television show with two studios involved (which means two separate sets of studio executives, all giving...
What I'll Never Do Again
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The last time I went to New York, I got off the plane and headed to the cab line and thought: wait a minute. The...
Bip
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Not too long ago I was in a meeting with the president of a television network. The show I was working on at the time...
The Event
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In the late 1980's, a huge phone company hired a top-of-the-line consultancy to make a forecast. Cell-phone usage was growing quickly, and the phone company...
Plus Aimable
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The cliché, of course, is that American television is awful. You know the saw: bad sitcoms, predictable dramas, tame dialogue, soft characters. About four years...
