Jesse Thorn’s podcast, The Sound Of Young America, featured two great interviews with notable female comedy writers last week.
Download the May 1st show to hear Anne Beatts (the creator of TV’s Square Pegs) talk about her time as head writer for the National Lampoon and as one of the original writers of SNL.
The May 3rd show features writer and actress Sarah Thyre discussing her tragically hilarious new memoir, Dark At The Roots.

–ems

This month’s Blog Of The Month is totally big-time! Jane Espenson, a very successful television writer, maintains a popular blog dedicated to giving advice to aspiring screenwriters. She updates frequently - almost every day - with tips on writing & revising spec scripts, using examples from professional writers. Her entries are helpful, fun, and friendly, with the tone of someone who really wants other people to succeed. And as far as TV writing […]

Rachael Mason’s blog, Superfree, is blowing up!
It started with a blogtag request from a friend. Rachael was asked to write 5 things that people don’t know about her. Instead of listing her first cats name and her least favorite food, Rachael wrote about how she used to be a rock groupie, and once lived with a nudist in San Francisco. The world’s interest was peaked.

In response to the sudden interest the entry created, Rachael pledged […]

Elaine Soloway and her bad-ass tattoo

This week we’re doing something different with the Blog Of The Week. We’ve got FOUR blogs -and they’re all Momblogs. Momblogs tend to be a bit more wordy than our totally hip free-wheelin’ 20-30something blogs, but they’re also a nice way to get to know these “moms” as “people”. As it turns out, they’re pretty awesome people.

First up is Jill Soloway’s (co-executive producer of HBO’s Six […]

It’s true! Hello Hilarious’s own Julie Klausner, aka me, aka I, am guest blogging this week on Comedycentral.com.

Please come on over to the site and show some love with your comments, because so far all I’ve gotten so far is this really mean response from a guy named Colin, and of course I don’t know him, and of course he doesn’t know that Comedy Central tells you in their guidelines to keep it brief and promote your projects, but […]

Claudia Cogan - the face of blogging.

Unless you live under a rock, or don’t obsessively read blogs all day, you know that Claudia Cogan’s blog, Get The F Out Of Here, has been a whirlwind of activity recently. This is thanks largely to her new video podcast with Victor Varnado - Big News Minute. The podcast is hilarooroo, and so simple you’ll punch yourself in the eggsacs […]

My mother is always asking me “Why don’t you write something?” To which I answer “I do - I have a blog, Mom. It’s at www.elizaskinner.net” And she says “no, something real.”
I choose to ignore what she’s implying, but obviously some folks don’t, and they’re moving out of the world of homemade blogs and going legit. Case in point, Michelle Collins –award winning blogger and funtimes gal — just got a job blogging for VH1’s […]

This Broad and That Broad are the New York artists who produced a notoriously wicked printed ‘zine called Broadsheet. All issues are now available for download on their fancy new blog! Link