I grew up in the era of legacy comedy dominance.
Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Zoolander, Meet The Parents, Wedding Crashers and The 40 Year Old Virgin were favorites of my adolescence. Let’s not forget The Fox comedy lineup of The Simpsons, That 70’s Show, Family Guy and King of the Hill. There were also plenty of others like The League, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, VEEP and Arrested Development.
These were pieces of comedy that formed my very specific palate. That and the likes of Ralphie May, Bernie Mac, Ron White, Norm Macdonald, George Carlin and Greg Giraldo. They helped forge a die hard comedy fan that in recent years has found that this genre of content is rarely found in the places I used to find it.
My dream as an aspiring writer was to one day work in a comedy writer's room and concoct jokes all day on the lot at some studio in Hollywood.
Those days are long gone. That type of work environment is hard to find, especially for an up and coming writer.
So where do I get my f…
