![]() Brooks ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons), Treva Silverman (The Mary Tyler Moore Show), Ken Estin ( Taxi), Matt Williams ( Roseanne, Home Improvement), Dava Savel ( Ellen), Larry Charles ( Seinfeld), David Lee ( Frasier), Phil Rosenthal ( Everybody Loves Raymond), Mike Reiss ( The Simpsons), Al Jean ( The Simpsons), and Jay Kogen ( The Simpsons). ![]() They are: Carl Reiner ( The Dick Van Dyke Show), Leonard Stern ( The Honeymooners), Norman Lear ( All In The Family, Maude), Austin & Irma Kalish (My Three Sons, All In The Family), James L. ![]() This 232-page book is Finn’s loving tribute to her father and contains reminisces from 41(!) American television comedy writers - 16 of which get full chapter interviews. ![]() It’s called Sitcom Writers Talk Shop: Behind The Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy, and it was written by Paula Finn, a friend of this blog and the daughter of Herbert Finn, who wrote some of your favorite episodes of - among other things - The Honeymooners (and The Jackie Gleason Show), Dennis The Menace, The Flintstones, and Gilligan’s Island. ![]() Welcome to a new Wildcard Wednesday! This week, I got the opportunity to read an advance copy of a book that I know will appeal to a good many of you here. ![]()
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