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Conan O’Brien Is a “53 Percent Optimist” About the Future of Comedy
Conan O’Brien doesn’t know what the future of comedy, and comedy writing for television, will look like — only that it will be different than the environment in which he started his career.
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Conan O’Brien doesn’t know what the future of comedy, and comedy writing for television, will look like — only that it will be different than the environment in which he started his career. “The days of writers rooms running from August through May and everyone being paid very handsomely in their 20s and ordering food [on a network’s tab] … are not coming back,” O’Brien said Wednesday evening at Bloomberg ‘s Screentime conference. “It will change.
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