rssRocketboom Hires Group of Writers
I always imagined - true or not, I still don’t know exactly- that there are these conference rooms in Los Angeles where groups of writers sit around the table and just laugh and write jokes all day long. One person throws out a joke about a bad movie, another person across the table one-ups that person, everyone laughs, and the story evolves and becomes more and more jam packed with references and entertaining information.
No, a writer’s room is more like this:
…there are these conference rooms in Los Angeles where groups of jaded, hungover writers sit around the table and secretly hold contempt for each other while trying to write jokes that nobody could give a crap about. One person throws out a joke about a bad movie, another person across the table one-ups that person, everyone laughs, except the guy who came up with the original joke — he now wants everyone in the room to die in a fire — and the story revolves and becomes more and more diluted by groupthink and then the suits executive produce the shit out of the script, the show fails and everybody moves back to whatever boring town they came from.
That is a writer’s room in Los Angeles.
Full story on RB here.
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