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Ep 137: Michael Schur

Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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You Learn to Not Be Precious About Your Writing

It just drives all the ego out of you, because you bomb so hard. You learn to not be precious about your own writing. At comedyell, i heard this rumour in the seventies, when the chauffeur started it, the wreathers were so terrible sometimes that alv i think all franklin or tom davis invented a system where there was a little bell,. like a bell when you go into a hotel and you ring for service. And they handed it to the writer whose sketch it was. The idea was if you get like four pages into a 15 page sketch and it's bombing, the writer can just ring the bell, and that’s like

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