Fun_People Archive
2 Nov
Six people to write a sitcom?

Date: Thu, 2 Nov 95 18:45:16 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Six people to write a sitcom?

Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: dfitzpat@interserv.com

Kevin Smith, the young film maker who created the hit movie "Clerks"
last year, was elated when he found out that WB TV network wanted to
make a sitcom based on it.  Smith, unaccustomed to how "TV" works, quit
the project after a few days.  "I was involved with it for two days, I
wrote four scripts," he said. But when he informed the TV folks that
he'd completed several shows they said that it wasn't THAT easy.
Instead, "(we) all sit in a room for three days and come up with the
bones of the show, then spend a week writing jokes."  About this
technique, Smith had this to say:  "If I ain't writing it all, I ain't
writing it at all...Six people to write a sitcom.  No wonder they all
suck."  (SF Chronicle)

© 1995 Peter Langston