Two seventeen-year-olds with mutual crushes egged one another into trying out for their college sketch groups. A few years later, their Yale graduation speech went viral, and made them the youngest writers in the history of The Tonight Show.

Writing partners, showrunners, and married couple Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold sit down with Brian and Bailey to discuss the second season of Adults (FX), the leap from writing sketches to running their own series, and why every emerging comedy writer needs to find their people.

How does the pace of late night TV make every writer a baby showrunner? Why would anyone walk away from The Tonight Show with nothing new lined up? How do you keep a Gen Z slang from expiring before new episodes even air? What happens when you pitch “live-action Big Mouth for your twenties” to Nick Kroll’s face?

And why might the skills it takes to produce comedy be diametrically opposed to the ones it takes to write it?

Rebecca and Ben have plenty to say about trust, voice, and staying ready for your lucky break, and how Adults grew from a friend group's inside jokes into a series all its own.

Produced by Brian Landwehr and Bailey Patterson.

A moment of snorkeling panic deep in a Tulum cenote became a joke between friends before it became the inspiration for a shark movie that made the 2019 Black List.

Screenwriters Aja Gabel and MJ Wesner and writer/director Jeff Wadlow sit down with Brian and Bailey to discuss The Devil’s Mouth (Amazon Prime Video), its seven-year journey getting to the screen, and what it takes to build a lasting career in show business.

How do you write a shark movie with a predator already right there within the friend group? What sort of things might a director change when tackling a project they didn’t write? What’s the difference between selling a script and having a career? How do you pitch a project you haven’t written yet?

And how do your particular writing talents make you unique but not special?

Jeff, Aja and MJ have plenty to say about what changed, what stayed the same, and how they made it all fit together as The Devil’s Mouth moved along from idea to screenplay to production to the screen.

Produced by Brian Landwehr and Bailey Patterson.

She was just five years old when she read the Little House on the Prairie books that made her want to tell stories. Today, she’s the screenwriter and showrunner taking us back into that world.

Screenwriter/showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Housemaid, The Housemaid 2, The Boys, Archive 81) sits down with Brian and Bailey to discuss why she writes, how she writes, and how the entertainment business really works.

How did an old-school VHS camcorder teach her plenty about storytelling? How did writing screenplay coverage nudge her into a screenwriting career of her own? How did she turn the things she enjoyed most into commercial successes? How did she adapt the bestselling novel The Housemaid by treating it as “a personal horror story”?

And how is “genre writing” perhaps not quite what people think it is?

Rebecca has plenty to say about crafting the tension of The Housemaid, landing the project of her childhood dreams, and the world-building secrets that make a 150-year-old story feel like it’s about us, right now.

Produced by Brian Landwehr and Bailey Patterson.