“Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.” PeopleWritingKindSaidShowsWantedYoungFunComedyNeededSummerJimmy Author:B. J. Porter
“For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.” WantLongIdeasShowsDreamWantedComedyOfficeLong TimeProducersEnthusiasmHeyImitationCurb Author:B. J. Porter
“And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.” StillsWantedPeriodsProducersBuyingLarryHanging On Author:B. J. Porter
