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The Best Show on WFMU => Dear Tom => Topic started by: Snuggalo on January 20, 2009, 04:58:10 PM

Title: George Meyer's Letterman screenplay
Post by: Snuggalo on January 20, 2009, 04:58:10 PM

Hey Tom,
As far as I know, the semi-legendary unproduced screenplay George Meyer wrote for David Letterman is not available to mere mortals.  I was wondering whether you, with your bigtime Hollywood connections, have ever had a chance to read this, and if so, does it live up to its myth as the funniest thing ever written?

Title: Re: George Meyer's Letterman screenplay
Post by: erechoveraker on January 24, 2009, 03:32:47 PM

I've always wanted to read this, but too lazy to beg/search for a copy online - and also I don't work for the Hollywoods.

Title: Re: George Meyer's Letterman screenplay
Post by: Joe Rogaine on January 28, 2009, 08:36:41 PM

What is this again?

Title: Re: George Meyer's Letterman screenplay
Post by: Snuggalo on January 29, 2009, 12:05:34 AM

I don't know much about it beyond what's in this New Yorker profile from 2000: http://tinyurl.com/ywa3j

Title: Re: George Meyer's Letterman screenplay
Post by: namethebats on February 05, 2009, 10:58:53 AM

Quote from: Snuggie on January 29, 2009, 12:05:34 AM

I don't know much about it beyond what's in this New Yorker profile from 2000: http://tinyurl.com/ywa3j

I'm pretty sure the writer lifted the "surly authoritarian ... dreamy dumbbell" line from a TV Guide article on "The Simpsons" that ran the year before (no, I'm not proud to know that).