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How To Write Funny

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Aug 3, 2015 • 51min

Episode 9 | Rich Dahm

Scott chats with Rich Dahm, a two-time Emmy winner who's written for Da Ali G Show, Dennis Miller Live, The Onion, and was co-executive producer of The Colbert Report for 6 years. He currently writes for ABC-TV's The Middle.
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Jul 27, 2015 • 54min

Episode 8 | Julia Sweeney

Scott talks with Julia Sweeney, who became famous for her performance as "Pat" on SNL. She later became a humor author, speaker, and producer and star of the one-woman show Letting Go of God.
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Jul 20, 2015 • 1h 7min

Episode 7 | Adam Resnick

Scott talks with Adam Resnick, co-creator of the Fox TV series Get a Life, staff writer for Late NIght with David Letterman, writer-director of Cabin Boy, and author of Will Not Attend.
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Jul 13, 2015 • 56min

Episode 6 | Andrew Daly

Andrew Daly patches in remotely to talk with Scott about his prolific career in improv, stand-up, writing, and acting. The star and executive producer of Comedy Central's Review, Andrew has appeared in a number of other movies and TV shows, including Semi-Pro, Eastbound & Down and Yogi Bear. He also pops up frequently as a number of different characters on Comedy Bang Bang.
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Jul 6, 2015 • 40min

Episode 5 | Weird Al Yankovic

Scott sits down with parody-music superstar Weird Al Yankovic, who is, believe it or not, the top-selling comedy recording artist of all time.
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Jun 29, 2015 • 1h 5min

Episode 4 | Kelly Leonard

Scott talks with Kelly Leonard, who runs Chicago's Second City. He recently wrote (with Tom Yorton) Yes And, a book outlining the practical applications of The Second City's core comedy philosophy.
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Jun 22, 2015 • 1h 9min

Episode 3 | Ellie Kemper

Scott talks with Ellie Kemper, star of Tina Fey's Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, who also played Erin on The Office and Becca in Bridesmaids.
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Jun 15, 2015 • 1h 6min

Episode 2 | Ben Bailey

Scott chats with Ben Bailey, stand-up comedian and Emmy-winning host of Cash Cab. 
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Jun 6, 2015 • 53min

Episode 1 | David Javerbaum

Scott talks with multiple-Emmy-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum about his work on The Daily Show, America: The Book, and his insanely popular twitter feed, @TheTweetOfGod, based on his book, The Last Testament: A Memoir, recently adapted into a Broadway play, An Act of God, starring Jim Parsons as God.

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