sent me a link to a really interesting interview with Paul Scheer of Best Week Ever fame.
I recommend checking it out. I was fascinated. Especially you BWE fans – there’s some interesting stuff about their process:
_Basically the night before they give you this eight to fifteen page outline. Here are a list of topics and questions. Such as Britney Spears is having a baby and there are ten questions on that. Do you think Britney Spears will be a good mom? What mothering advice would you give Britney Spears? You go in and you know what you are going to talk about. I get it that night, write down stuff, and riff when I’m in there. The questions are pre-written and I think a lot of us write our responses beforehand because you have takes on it. You are basically creating a standup comedy set for that next bit. Here are the specifics now go in and make jokes of these ideas. The writers of Best Week Ever are there to craft the piece, to have an angle. So it’s not us randomly talking about things, they have a point of view._