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Hosted by Sean Conroy · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 30 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 30 episodes published.
"Hey, you guys are great. Goodbye." That’s Hollywood, baby!. This week, I'm looking at some critically acclaimed one-season wonders. Starting with Emmy-winning Disney+ hit The Muppets Mayhem , I talk some screenwriting m
How do you survive for decades in Hollywood while writing for hit animation, live-action TV, and huge video game franchises? Mark Hoffmeier has credits that go back to the Stone Age (or at least The Flintstones). He’s wo
Author, podcaster, and UCB alum Kate Spencer joins me to talk about turning life’s toughest moments into art. We talk about her raw, funny memoir The Dead Moms Club, and how she pivoted from that to romance novels (that
Writing is like the gym, the dentist, or peanut butter—it’s all about consistency. But what happens on those days you have absolutely nothing left in the tank (like, um, today)? This week I get into the unglamorous side
What does it take to run one of the most celebrated sketch shows in television history? This week I talk with Ian Roberts (co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade ) about the brilliant writers' room of Key & Peele , t
How long should you hold onto a script idea? Because I just ran into her in New York, in this episode I wanted to get into the truly inspiring journey of writer and showrunner Katie Dippold ( Parks and Rec , The Heat , G
This week I got to hang out with veteran late-night writer Laurie Kilmartin ( Jimmy Kimmel Live , Conan , Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn ), an old friend of mine from many stand-up rooms back in New York. We talk about jok
What does it take to get a green light from Disney+ and a room full of legendary Muppet performers? This week, I sit down with my old pal Jeff Yorkes. Jeff is an award-winning trailer editor, and oh yeah the co-creator o
Comedian, filmmaker, and Groundlings alum Mel Stephens and I talk about going from performing to being a writer and director. And why! What it’s like to be a comedian working with comedian Brett Goldstein to shoot a high
How do you make a character likable when they’re doing terrible things? Just ask Andy Daly ! Actor, comedian and writer Andy Daly ( Review , Eastbound & Down , Silicon Valley ) goes deep on the chaos of the Hollywood dev
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
There'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
I'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
In 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
One 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
TV 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
Have 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
The 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
I’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
What 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
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