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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
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2020.
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"Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor, Colin Jost, has six sets of stitches on his face alone. He's been punched in at least four different sketches on Saturday Night Live, including once by his boss, Lorne Michaels. But if there's one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it's being able to take a punch-metaphorically and, occasionally, physically. From growing up as an overweight kid in a family of firefighters...
3) Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons
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[2018]
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The longest-serving writer and producer for "The Simpsons" offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history.
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[1999]
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A woman's antagonism towards her crippled supervisor for his acerbic sense of humor melts when her son is paralyzed. It happens when Lily Benjamin, a TV comedy writer, discovers that the supervisor's humor helps her son recover. As a result antagonism gives way to love.
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[2021]
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"Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago all the way to a dramatic career that is baffling to his friends, it's almost like there are two or three Bob Odenkirks...but there is just one and one is enough, frankly. Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting...
11) 30 rock season 6
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[2012]
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Primetime Emmy Award winner Tina Fey is back as Liz Lemon, the struggling TGS writer who seems to have found a new groove along with M&M pancake-filled domestic bliss. But with GE executive Jack Donaghy scheming his way through Kabletown, Tracy Jordan finding his voice as an idiot, Jenna Maroney taking her love life to new levels of extreme and NBC Page Kenneth Parcell being, well, Kenneth, will the chaos be too much for this new and improved Liz...
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[2006]
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The birth and childhood of his three children, his father is growing disability, learning to cope as a young man with celebrity, his friendship with George Harrison, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of Michael Palin's diaries. A perceptive and funny chronicle, the diaries are a rich portrait of a fascinating period.
17) 30 Rock Season 4
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[2010]
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TV writer Liz Lemon and conservative GE executive Jack Donaghy preside over the everyday mayhem at a late-night variety show. Pretending to help them are mercurial stars Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney as well as wide-eyed NBC page Kenneth Parcell.
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2012
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The series proves how seemingly trivial details of one's day-to-day life, a trip to the grocery store, a remark at a dinner party, a fender-bender, can precipitate a 'Murphy's Law' chain of misfortune to hilarious effect. To keep the narrative spontaneous, Curb is shot without a script; cast members are given scene outlines and often improvise lines as they go.