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In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.

Billy Lawrence

When you’re on a staff, it’s not your job to write what you think is funny. It’s your job to write what the person who created the show thinks is funny.
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Jobs Thinking Writing
In a landscape where a 2.8 [demo rating] keeps you on the air, you can maintain that just by treating your fans with respect.
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Air Fans Landscape
If something’s working, you lean into it. You don’t fight it.
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Fighting Something Working
It’s a nightmare of editing. That’s what I do all day.
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All Day Editing Nightmare
By engaging someone for five minutes, you can make them a lifelong fan.
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Fans Lifelong Minutes
Fans can’t ruin shows. Only creators can.
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Fans Ruin Shows
I used to search and search for that actor or actress who’s exactly what’s in my head. But you have to realize you have to cast whoever’s super talented and super funny, and then the character has to become at least partially theirs.
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Actors Actresses Character
Part of walking the line as showrunner is trying to please people and still be true to what you believe creatively.
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Believe People Trying
You have to lean into the turn. On every creative aspect, you have to lean into what’s working.
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Aspect Creative Turns
The only way to keep a show alive is to stay loyal to your fans and not betray them creatively or ignore them when it comes to extra content. I’m on Twitter because I’m trying to answer their questions.
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Answers Fans Trying Twitter
I never went after character payments. I’m pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.
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Character Names Payment People
One of the things I’m proud of is my ability to change directions if something’s not working.
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Ability Change Proud
The writing is what’s most important to me.
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Important Most Writing

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