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Writers' Bloc is a podcast about comedy writing hosted by J.R. Havlan, an 8-time Emmy Award winning writer for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. J.R. conducts hilarious, insightful, and extremely informative interviews with the industry's top television comedy writers and finds out how they got where they are, how they do what they do, and how the specific shows and projects the work on go from a blank page to a final draft. Be a fly on the wall for an in-depth sneak peak at the creative process that results in developing some of the best comedy shows on television. You love the sausage, now hear how it gets continue reading...
Episode 22: Larry Wilmore

Writers' Bloc is a podcast about comedy writing hosted by J.R. Havlan, an 8-time Emmy Award winning writer for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. J.R. conducts hilarious, insightful, and extremely informative interviews with the industry's top television comedy writers and finds out how they got where they are, how they do what they do, and how the specific shows and projects the work on go from a blank page to a final draft. Be a fly on the wall for an in-depth sneak peak at the creative process that results in developing some of the best comedy shows on television. You love the sausage, now hear how it gets made.

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Episode 22: Larry Wilmore

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There are a handful of people in this business who can do it all and Larry Wilmore is one of those people. He has not only created successful shows on his own, he has written for every genre known to television comedy, acted on "the TV" and in "the movies", written a book with another one on the way, and... he can sing! (I think. Not totally sure about that last one.) His impressive list of TV writing credits include “In Living Color,” “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”, “The Jamie Foxx Show", and "The Office". And he co-created the animated show “The PJs” with Eddie Murphy and the award winning "The Bernie Mac Show." In this jam-packed episode, Larry discusses all of those experiences as well as giving away a few of his formerly best-kept secrets on successfully pitching to networks. There's gold in this here episode, and I command you to dig it!

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