Hosted by Sean Conroy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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I'm Sean. I'm a comedian and a writer. I've written TV for over twenty years, and comedianed for way longer than that- stand-up, sketch, improv, one-person shows, podcasts... If you want to learn to write a sitcom pilot, I'm gonna share some of the insights I wish I had when I was starting (maybe even all). I'm also gonna talk to lots of writers about career paths, comedy, and writing habits. We're gonna talk extensively about the craft of television writing, and of comedy writing in general. Performing, too. And the art! Comedy is an art! Check out the show. See you there.
Sean Conroy hosts Punching Up with Sean Conroy, a comedy show with 20 episodes published.
Welcome to Season 2 of Punching Up with Sean Conroy ! I'm Sean, and just so you know, this episode gets pretty intensely personal. I'm a TV writer and comedian, and because of some stuff that's gone in my real life recen
Show notesThere's a lot of stuff I think about now when I'm starting to figure out how to write a TV pilot script that I would have liked to know when I started out, if somebody was like "hey here are some screenwriting tips for b
Show notesI've been working on my creative process lately, struggling with overcoming perfectionism and writing consistency, and I feel like I'm kind of winning. A little. Discipline is to creatives as ice cream is to lactose into
Show notesIn this episode I talk to Ed Herro, who wrote for (among other things) Jeff and Some Aliens and American Housewife. Most recently he co-created and co- ran The Sticky for Amazon Prime. In this showrunner interview, we ge
Show notesOne thing I've always struggled with as a writer is "paralysis by analysis"- maybe if I read THIS book or follow THIS method or use THIS structure I'll get it right, and everything will be easy. So in this episode I talk
Show notesTV writer and comedian Sean Conroy and his guests talk about how to write a great sitcom pilot, how to have a career in comedy, how to develop good habits as a writer, and his struggles with all of those things. He gives
Show notesHave you ever seen a movie trailer and thought, "That’s my idea!"? This week, Sean Conroy shares a devastating morning spent on Twitter discovering a project that mirrored his current screenplay beat-for-beat. He talks a
Show notesThe cold open of your sitcom pilot may be the most important two pages you will ever write in your life, unless you write a long ransom note for yourself or jot down an ancient family recipe to pass on. You have so much
Show notesI’ve always written all my TV scripts according to a very methodical screenwriting process. I break the story, do somestory mapping, write an incredibly detailed script outline (including lots of dialogue and jokes), THE
Show notesWhat happens when a high-stakes commercial real estate lawyer decides to trade the courtroom for a writer’s room? This week I talk to Marcus Perkins Bejarano, a graduate of the Nickelodeon Writing Program and writer on t
Show notesAll comics have horror stories. Some involve heckling. Some involve check drops, or check disputes. Some are... quieter. This is mine. In this episode I'm talking about the worst set I ever had, which happened at the leg
Show notesI'm a comedian and a writer, and in this episode of my podcast I'm talking about when to follow the 180-degree rule in filmmaking and when to break it for the sake of a laugh. And obviously I'm doing this to make a large
Show notesWhat does it actually take to break into a Hollywood writer’s room? In this "A M Anything" episode, AKA "Ask Me A.," producer Dean Sharp and I get into the business of television. We talk about the reality of landing an
Show notesWhy do some sitcom pilots feel like a sprint while others feel like a slow crawl? In this episode I manage to apply Newton’s Laws of Motion to the reading of a pilot script, and explain why I stay in motion (that is, con
Show notesIn this episode of Punching Up, I’m talking to my old friend the hilarious Owen Burke. Starting with his early days as a production assistant , to his time as a development executive at Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Gary
Show notesA big part of the television pilot development process (and any scriptwriting process) is getting notes from other people. In this episode I talk about handling creative criticism and your relationships with TV producers
Show notesI’ve been lucky enough to work in the competitive world of television and sitcom writing for over twenty years (on stuff like Mr. Pickles and Key and Peele ).. In this episode I talk about a weakness that can hold even t
Show notesIn this episode of Punching Up with Sean Conroy , host Sean Conroy sits down with the incredibly talented Carl Tart , a powerhouse in the world of comedy. Known for his sharp wit as a current Saturday Night Live (SNL) wr
Show notesWelcome to Punching Up , a podcast dedicated to the craft of comedy writing and the reality of life in Hollywood . Hosted by Executive Producer and comedian Sean Conroy , each episode dives deep into the writing process,
Show notesSitcoms still matter (trust me, bro). No really- the world is changing, AIA is coming for us, corporate mergers are beiging everything, billionaires are exploiting thte proletariat, but we still need comfort food for our
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