Interview David Milch In his two-and-a-half-hour interview, David Milch discusses his early life and influences, and how he came to write for Hill Street Blues . He talks about his stint as a writer for Hill Street Blues under Steven Bochco and his unconventional personal life at the time. He describes co-creating NYPD...
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...
