On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:03 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
> I found this relevant to the pilot of Murphy Brown also. It's about the > difficulty of doing timely political humor in this environment. Writer Mark > Harris says that it needs to come from a personal viewpoint like John > Oliver, Seth Meyers, or Samantha Bee and not from a writers' room. > > > http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/snl-brett-kavanaugh-matt-damon-political-comedy.html > And yet across the pond, radio shows like The Now Show and TV shows like Drop The Dead Donkey have taken writing ensembles to create genius timely political humor (or humour). SNL suffers from a lot of problems (Lorne Michaels being the main one), but scripts generated from a writers room is not one of them. Also worth noting Oliver, Meyers, and Bee all have collaborative writers rooms... that they write for one specific voice probably is easier for many, though I personally would struggle with that. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
