A former restaurant worker turned production assistant pitched a single joke to Craig Kilborn that got accepted, launching them into TV writing and production. They describe leaving restaurants, a brief stint in software sales, and discovering their real passion in collaborative comedy.
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What got you into the film and the entertainment aspect that way, aside from, you know, living over there? But what got you there?
I mean, it kind of began when I was. I had left the restaurant industry. I worked my way from like a bartender to a gm and then kind of wanted to get out of the restaurant industry. And I became an account executive for a software company. That was kind of more explained to me that I was going to be like, more like marketing, but it was like cold call marketing type thing, which wasn't my cup of tea. So then I had an opportunity to be a production assistant on a TV show and just kind of fell in love with that process of a bunch of people just kind of sitting in the room being like, hey, wouldn't this be funny? Or wouldn't this be entertaining? It was with Craig Kilborne, who's a legend, to say the least. But he took me under his wing and there was actually one joke that I pitched him which, like, normally, like, production assistants wouldn't pitch a joke. And I was just like, hey, right, what do you think about this? And he's like, I like it, let's do it.