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“Unfortunately, that producer died in 1978.”

Tried-and-true setup and punchline, but it still gets me every time

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I wish that Substack would let me “love” this. LMAO; absolutely brilliant! 😂🤣

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This is fantastic. Would love war stories of this nature

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This would be an awards show I would watch. And it has nothing to do with the fact that at any moment one of the nominees could have a complete psychotic break.

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"main source of news is The Huffington Post"

Mr Maurer, it could be considerably worse than HuffPo. Consider those high IQ folk who get their news from Raw Story or Truthout - or better still - The Federalist or The Gateway Pundit.

fnord

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Mar 5, 2023·edited Mar 5, 2023

How about an award for surviving the kind of situation depicted in "The Player"?

[edit] Not to mention the earlier iteration of writers-vs-the-industry in Len Deighton's novel "Close-Up".

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Well said, Jeff, hilarious yet painfully accurate.

These are the awards that writers deserve - If the WGA doesn't make them a reality, someone else will.

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