Poking A Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers
Mike Sacks
Penguin Books
Trade Paperback
From the publisher's website:
Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton
Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of
comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with
behind-the-scenes stories—from a day in the writers’ room at The Onion to why a sketch does or doesn’t make it onto Saturday Night Live to how the BBC nearly erased the entire first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus—Poking a Dead Frog is a must-read for comedy buffs, writers and pop culture junkies alike.
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