Laura Kightlinger started in stand-up and was hired for an acting job, but was fired and given a job as a writer instead.
"Best Internet keywords? Terrorists and big tits."
"I’m in the token program. On a lot of shows I’m the only female writer. It doesn’t matter if you’re a token if you’re getting paid to write."
"You should have fun writing at first because after you make it people just whittle away your stuff and it's not as much fun."
Linwood Boomer started as an actor, became a writer, made enough money, and retired.
"Write TV spec scripts. I wrote Malcolm as a spec script just to keep in practice. The guy at FOX who bought it got fired for some other reason and we were ignored for 12 episodes. By then we had critical acclaim so they poured all kinds of money into it. We had seven years of doing whatever we wanted to. It was like winning the lottery."
"How to get a job in TV? Write scripts and send them out. You need four or five good scripts and they will do your auditioning for you. If you don’t get any calls write some more."
Rodney Barnes came to Hollywood on an invite from Damon Wayans, but when he got here Wayans had changed his phone number and Rodney ended up sleeping in his car. Four years later they reconnected and Wayans hired him.
"When I was growing up everybody laughed at the same things. Somewhere in the late '80s people began to segregate comedy. Write for everybody."
"Don’t spend time worrying. Just do it."
"Get a job as a production assistant or a writer’s assistant. I know a lot of writer’s assistants who got script assignments just because they were in the room."
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