Comedy Writers Today

On an average day, Baze says, the Late Night writers’ room comes up with 500 jokes. Eleven make it on the air. “I tell the writers, ‘Look, you’re basically writing your jokes into a shredder, and every once in a while one of them will get plucked away and it’ll get to be on TV; don’t fall in love with your material.’”

“It’s incredibly hard, I think, to be funny when you’re really angry and sad at the same time,” McNearney adds.
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