THE BLURB: For a decade, Alan and Gil Adler - this episode's guest - were not only best friends, but creative partners, too. Together they wrote and produced (and directed) TV shows like Freddy's Nightmares and HBO's iconic "Tales From The Crypt"; in fact, Alan and Gil co-created The Crypt Keeper. Though they made something of a career out of horror, neither Gil nor Alan actually were fans of horror. Both went into movies, TV (and, for Gil, the theater) expecting to make comedies. In this episode, we talk about how our paths converged and then put us on a collision course with Crypt.

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THE BLURB: GD and Alan lay down their 5 (or so) favorite sitcoms - the ones that helped shape their comedy sensibilities - from All In The Family to Modern Family, from Fawlty Towers to The Office.

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THE BLURB: Writer, producer, TV executive, professor and comedian Dan Pasternack told us how to break into comedy in his last chat with us. In this episode, Dan takes us inside the comedy development process. How do shows like Portlandia get from the idea stage to the execution stage? Dan knows exactly how because he was an intimate part of it.

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