
Episode 1430 - David Mandel
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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The Importance of Having a Job
I was a writer, but I learned to write with and from out. And we wrote some stuff that I've- For any decision. But it was when I really got to SNL. That's where I start to get into the nitty gritty of writing political humor. It's sniffing out the simple things. When he was on the judiciary committee, I was always laughing. Because I was like, this is like his old sort of stand up, except it wasn't. The second time around, he was there forever,. But not the head writer. There was no head writer. At that point, Jim Downey was sort of the, I guess, producer head writer.
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