Interview Al Jean In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Al Jean discusses his decision to become a comedy writer. He recalls his first professional writing job for the feature film Airplane 2 , and speaks of his first television job writing jokes for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson . He chronicles writing...
Interview Laraine Newman In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Laraine Newman recalls her early interest in performing, which led her to study mime with Marcel Marceau and to be a founding member of The Groundlings comedy troupe in Los Angeles. She recalls being discovered by Lorne Michaels for The Lily Tomlin Special,...
Interview Dick Askin In his four-hour interview, Dick Askin talks about his early days as an account executive at WNBC in New York, dealing with local shows like Not For Women Only . He describes his transition to KNBC in Los Angeles where he served as director of sales before transitioning over to Fries Entertainment...
Interview Ed O'Neill In his three-hour interview, Ed O'Neill discusses entering acting in his early thirties. He talks of his love of theater and speaks of several plays he was in before landing a role on the soap opera Another World . He recalls several guest appearances on television shows in the early 1980s and...
Interview Greg Daniels In his nearly three-and-a-half-hour interview, Greg Daniels discusses writing for The Harvard Lampoon , which led to a job writing for HBO's Not Necessarily the News . He recalls his early writing partner Conan O'Brien and writing for Saturday Night Live and Fox's short-lived late-night show The...
Interview Sam Simon In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, Sam Simon (1955-2015) talks about growing up in Beverly Hills, and shares tales of his early encounters with the likes of Elvis Presley and Groucho Marx. He describes his first show business jobs in animation, drawing for Bill Cosby's Fat Albert and the Cosby...
