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How To Write Funny

Scott Dikkers, founder of TheOnion.com and The Onion's longest-serving editor-in-chief, interviews celebrities, writers, and other influencers in the comedy business about their background, philosophy and writing process.
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Now displaying: August, 2015
Aug 31, 2015

Scott and Andy Borowitz take a ride through his varied career, from being President of the Harvard Lampoon, creating the hit TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, stand-up and lecturing, to having his homegrown humor email list become so popular it was subsumed by The New Yorker.

Aug 24, 2015

Scott picks up the phone and talks with master comedy actor, writer and producer Bob Einstein, the man behind Super Dave Osborne.

Aug 17, 2015

Todd Rosernberg created one of the first viral online cartoon series, Odd Todd.

Aug 10, 2015

Scott talks with Anna Lefler, a humor author who got started as a Mommy blogger. Her first comic novel, Preschooled, comes out this fall. Her previous book was The Chicktionary: From A-Line to Z-Snap, The Words Every Woman Should Know. She's also written and performed for the Nickelodeon/NickMom TV show Parental Discretion with Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, and is a three-time faculty member of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Aug 3, 2015

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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