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Doug MacLeod's Blog
The brilliant Tina Fay, in her comic element as unloved script producer Liz Lemon on the greatly missed American sitcom, 30 Rock.In an earlier post, The Loneliness of Liz Lemon,I wrote about how upsetting it was being the script producer or head writer of a TV sketch show, and therefore being the one who has the unenviable task of rejecting scripts that writers have prepared, because you don’t think they’re good enough to be filmed and put on television. You are immediately disliked, no matter how politely you reject their work. Even if you give them money. And a car.I now know what it feels like to be one of the rejected ones. Back in March, I received a phone call from producer Rick McKenna. He’s married to Gina Riley, who is a good pal, but I knew Rick long before I knew Gina. He ran The Last Laugh theatre restaurant for a time, so every comedy person in Melbourne knew him. I always found him affable, though I knew some comedians complained that he could be tough. That is, he wouldn’t let them perform because they weren’t funny enough on stage, in his opinion. It was his call to make and, frankly, he was usually right.
The not-funny-enough-on-stage category is one in which I undoubtedly fall, but fortunately most of my visits to The Last Laugh were
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Doug MacLeod (1982)
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MacLeod, Doug, 1946-
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Blues (Music); Blues musicians; Blues musicians -- Pictorial works
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Pertti Nurmi Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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- Bib ID:
- 7286904
- Format:
- Unspoiled
- Author:
- MacLeod, Doug, 1959-, author
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- National edeposit: Onsite dispute National Accumulation of Australia
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- Australia : Penguin Group State, 2010
- ©2010
- 1 online resource (312 pages).
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- Summary:
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