Ep. 120 Larry Dorf and The Summer of Showbiz: Hollywood is Out on Two Strikes

Hi… I have not been taking our relationship very seriously have I.  I’m sorry… I haven’t called, haven’t written, you think I haven’t even been thinking about you probably.  Well that’s not true.  If fact this is the 4th attempt at episode number 120.  I can’t tell why I haven’t been producing, creating, whatever this is and at the same time I have a few really important-ish reasons why I haven’t but we’ll talk about that later… maybe.

My guest is my good friend Larry Dorf.  I would consider him a “super friend” isn’t that in like the league of justice with the DC comics realm.  Only we don’t use the word “realm” anymore.  Now we say “multiverse”, right?  That’s the craze for the last ten years… this obsession with the idea of a multiverse, from the 10,001 Marvel Comics movies to the animated Spider-Verse to Everything, Everywhere all at once, it’s all a multiverse.  Maybe this is why I don’t do episodes anymore… I can’t stay on topic for shit.  

Larry Dorf is a super-friend, that’s how I digressed.  Larry if you remember is a fancy (from my cubicle’d perspective) Hollywood writer, producer and actor.  He and my other superfriends who he is partnered with have created Mike Tyson Mysteries for cartoon network and hit it pretty darn big with the Netflix show, “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window”  It did really well, I loved it and if you like a parody that’s not in your face schticky like Scary Movie, not that it doesn’t have a place, but this was more suspense and definitely more subtle but very funny and well acted and well written and yes I’m biased.

We recorded this episode in the first week of June 2023 and here it is mid July and I’m just now trying for my fourth time to publish an episode. The writer’s strike had already been going on for some time, in fact by the time this episode sees the light of day the actors union SAG-AFTRA  has joined the writers and we may have to call Larry all over again.

We talk about shows they are pitching or shows they were TRYING to pitch and the general process of pitching a show and how that was put on hold well before the writer’s strike began 

We briefly get off track talking about TV to fall asleep to.  That’ll really put you on the edge of your ear buds so you don’t want to miss that.  

Another thing is… I did not spend as much time editing this episode down.  Will that make a difference?  Who knows… but if you notice a difference please include it in all the virtual cards an letters that have been coming in by the thousands.  I edited like the first 15 minutes and then said stop being so precious.  It’s just the four of us listening to this anyway.  Let’s see what happens.  

We start our conversation by trying to get Larry comfortable as I know he loves to spin around in office chairs and then I have to set him straight on the difference between an office for a TV show or movie… a production office versus an office in the real world where you and I live.  I’ve worked in both and I can tell you… they ain’t the same.

CLOSE - I think there’s something going on with Larry blocking certain things out from his childhood.  Maybe we need to get his wife Sam on the podcast and dig a little deeper.  Hope you enjoyed this episode.  I’ve missed you.  I have another summer episode to publish, hopefully it will be this summer of 2023.  Stay cool, stay hydrated for God’s sake stay hydrated and thank you for listening to the Modern Moron.