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Episode 31: Wyatt Cenac - Live at NYC PodFest

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 31: Wyatt Cenac - Live at NYC PodFest

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Wyatt Cenac joins me for a live taping at NYC PodFest 2014. Wyatt won 3 Emmy Awards during his time as a writer and correspondent for The Daily Show, but did you know that Wyatt was also a writer for the hilarious animated series, King of the Hill? And do you know how he got that job? Did you know that Colin Quinn almost got him a job writing for SNL? All this and much more is just a click away. Make sure you stick around 'til the end for a great story about Wyatt's first appearance on The Daily Show. Currently, Wyatt is an immensely popular staple of the New York City (Brooklyn in particular) comedy scene. Every first Thursday of the month he hosts Shouting at the Screen at IndieScreen in Williamsburg. Every Monday night he hosts the comedy show Night Train at Littlefield. And sometime in March he'll be releasing his latest comedy album (exact date and title unknown as of me typing this.) But before you enjoy all those things, enjoy this...

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