@op do you need an agent to get into screenwriting? And how did you go about getting an agent?

i love blackish, charlie gotta be one of the funniest characters in all of television

thats mad dope op, thanks for sharing stories + your insight

No problem! Deon Cole is amazing and hilarious and supremely talented. I think one of my earliest days on the show, I was on the 101 (an LA highway) otw to work and saw a guy in a drop top Bentley Continental GT and it was him

He’s the rare actor who can say a line you wrote in a way you didn’t intend for it to be said, but it’s actually funnier and better than the way you intended for it to be said

Do you ever text drake? That’s pretty insane. Please let him know ktt2 user NobodyWins would really appreciate the Kanye collab album now. Please.

I get into that on my YouTube, which I refuse to promote for reasons. But write something dope. Send it out. Keep writing. That’s advice I need to follow myself tbh

I’m jealous. He seems like a fun dude to hang with.

for sure appreciate you spending your time doing this you seem like a dope person

@op about how long does it take to write one episode of the Simpsons?

Just going off of what my mentor has taught me, definitely get an agent as a screenwriter, they can open a lot of doors/lead to great opportunities. As for getting one...have money, connects, and a strong portfolio of work lol with that being said if you have great work that gets picked up/sold, agents will come to you as they need people with good work in order to stay paid themselves.

Really a symbiotic relationship between writers and agents from what I've been learning so far.

I don’t have his current number. We talked a couple of weeks ago when I saw him out.

Sometimes idk how cool we are, but his response to seeing me was very like seeing a friend you haven’t seen in a while, so I guess we are cool

Maybe I will do a twitch if like 10 people commit to joining. Cuz some of these questions are better for a video format

@op Since you wrote for Black-ish I'm assuming you've worked with Angela Nissel right?

One thing I will say about him is that I am 99.9% sure I’m the reason for this caption lol: instagram.com/p/BUaRhd2DMNA/?utm_medium=copy_link

At the after party that night, I told him he has to caption his pic “13 reasons why” cuz he won 13 billboard awards. This was when the show “13 reasons why” was the biggest thing in media

It was this night: instagram.com/dsonoiki/p/BUaHkPzgsao/?utm_medium=copy_link

No she probably came after I did

What show would u like to get in on the most rn?

A year. Kind of. The episodes get written and rewritten and rewritten

ill check out ur channel op

A productive kind thread

All time, Arrested Development. Current? I’m so out of the loop on what shows are on. Lol probably back on the simpsons since it’s never going off the air. But hmm… shows are either family comedies (I have no kids, never been married) or workplace. It’s rare to find a show that’s just about dudes or gals in their late 20’s or their 30’s. I guess that’s Insecure? idk. You’ve stumped me.

Something silly and funny. There was something liberating about writing for The Simpsons where it’s just about being funny and zany versus the pressure of talking about race and societal lessons in a show like blackish

This guy came with the receipts and everything. Bullshit 59 could never

How tf did u get booked for insider trading one would think thats the modus operandi of wall street lmao

bet