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Ian Talks Comedy

Dennis Danziger ("Taxi", "Kate & Allie", "A Short History of the Tall Jew")

Dennis Danziger discusses when he went one on one against Kobe Bryant; studying play writing in the University of Texas at Austin; moving to NY; being a sports junkie; writing an episode of The White Shadow; not remembering Open All Night; how a one act play with Rhea Perlman led to a job on Taxi; writing a pilot After George for Susan St. James; writing an episode of EmpireKate & Allie; Homeland; and Foley Square; writing a Melba; the unorthodox story of "Daddy, Diary of an Expectant Father"; writing for My Sister Sam and the People Next Door; Antonio Sacre; being one of George HW Bush's Points of Life for his volunteerism; the Pops Club; "The Short History of the Tall Jew"; The Good Men Project; inequality between majority white, black and Hispanic students in LA; The Richard Nixon Sex Tapes - a series of one act plays; Shalom Vietnam

Broadcast on:
27 Aug 2021

Dennis Danziger discusses when he went one on one against Kobe Bryant; studying play writing in the University of Texas at Austin; moving to NY; being a sports junkie; writing an episode of The White Shadow; not remembering Open All Night; how a one act play with Rhea Perlman led to a job on Taxi; writing a pilot After George for Susan St. James; writing an episode of EmpireKate & Allie; Homeland; and Foley Square; writing a Melba; the unorthodox story of "Daddy, Diary of an Expectant Father"; writing for My Sister Sam and the People Next Door; Antonio Sacre; being one of George HW Bush's Points of Life for his volunteerism; the Pops Club; "The Short History of the Tall Jew"; The Good Men Project; inequality between majority white, black and Hispanic students in LA; The Richard Nixon Sex Tapes - a series of one act plays; Shalom Vietnam