Sublime

Let me say at this juncture that I sincerely believe Billy Joel is a nice enough guy in real life. I listened to the audiobook of his authorized biography and I respect him as a person. He wasn’t handed anything, he did the work, he cracked the code, then stayed in the game and he’s still doing it. Billy Joel is perfectly harmless, unless you happe

SCTV was a sketch show from Canada. It was not done in front of a live audience; everything was shot on tape. (The Ben Stiller Show was heavily influenced by SCTV. Ben and I used to say, “We’re like SCTV if they’d had money to work with.”) The cast was epic—John Candy, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara—but the person who made me laugh th

The screenwriter Craig Mazin, creator of the award-winning TV series Chernobyl, is big on the Hegelian dialectic. He talks about it as a way of approaching writing: ‘constant changing. Every scene begins with a truth, something happens inside of that scene. There is a new truth at the end and you begin, and you begin, and you begin.’