KCRW's Martini Shot
Summary: Veteran TV writer and producer Rob Long shares his behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood life on "Martini Shot." A contributing editor for the National Review and Newsweek International, he was a co-executive producer of "Cheers" while still in his 20s and is the co-creator of a string of (cancelled) sitcoms: "George & Leo," "Men, Women & Dogs," etc. Rob is also the author of "Conversations With My Agent," the cult classic about real life in Hollywood, as well as its recently published sequel, "Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke."
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- Artist: Rob Long, KCRW.com
- Copyright: KCRW 2014
Podcasts:
What happens in Rob's brain when a pitch meeting goes well, which is that it stops working and says strange, nonsensical things.
What happens in Rob's brain when a pitch meeting goes well, which is that it stops working and says strange, nonsensical things.
Wading into the recent controversy about what Jerry Seinfeld said about college kids. That they're insufferable killjoys.
Explaining why a movie won't work at the box office, right after it hasn't worked at the box office.
Using Evernote to prove that the entertainment business is about to get very crazy and very good, especially for writers. This is not a scientific conclusion.
Breaking the tribal rule that binds all Hollywood writers together, Rob gives credit to a development executive.
Breaking the tribal rule that binds all Hollywood writers together, Rob gives credit to a development executive.
Rob takes a story with the worst and most dysfunctional moral ever, then kind of twists it so it comes out okay.
Sometimes when the star makes a demand you give in, sometimes you don?t.
Sometimes when the star makes a demand you give in, sometimes you don’t.
Belated advice to Trevor Noah, and anyone else who suddenly goes from Internet famous to actually famous.
Furious Seven, Coca-Cola, and how hard it is to change people's favorite things just enough.
The big difference between sampling ? where music producers reuse someone else's hook and borrowing, which is what comedy writers do to each others' material.
Rob solves the problem of television network programming
the Apple Watch, the DeLorean of watches.
