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Bill Lawrence Says ‘To Call It a Comedy, You Better Be Joke-Forward’ at Variety’s A Night in the Writers Room
The minds behind TV's funniest series discussed the line between comedy and drama: 'To call it a comedy, you better be joke-forward.'
Brian Jordan Alvarez, who created and stars in FX’s “English Teacher,” said the only thing his writers room takes seriously is the “joke density.” Lawrence said when he was first pitching “Scrubs,” the president of one of the major TV networks said, “I don’t think you can do broad, silly comedy and then switch gears and have people give a crap about whether or not a patient is living or dying.” Elsewhere in the conversation, “Laid” showrunners Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford McKenna teased their upcoming series, which stars Stephanie Hsu as a woman whose sexual partners all begin mysteriously dying in chronological order of when she slept with them.
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