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137 | Stranger Things Writer/Producer Curtis Gwinn on Navigating The Writers Room

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Broy Mainstream Style of Comedy

"We were like really kind of broy things," he says. "And we had been joking with each other, um, all the time about a biker gang guy and a nerdy scientist being trapped in a zombie apocalypse house together" The show was sold to Comedy Central for more than $1 million after it went on national tour. John Defterios: I didn't know anything that would make people think this is such a big deal. We just believed that if we put up a show and we'll get the crowd in there and it'll be great.

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