Hi this is Laura Turner and today I'm going
to talk with you about how to become a daily
show writer. You love watching the Daily Show,
and you watch it everyday, because it's the
daily show. Not really. But if you want to
become a writer for the Daily Show, you should
first become the best writer that you can
be for TV. Because, very obviously, TV writing
positions are very coveted, and very competitive.
So what you're going to want to do first is
really figure out how to write comedy for
TV and how really to write sketch comedy well.
You might want to go take classes at your
local university to work on this. You might
want to get a book that will help you sort
of work on it on you own. But what you really
want to do is make sure that you test yourself,
that you actually get your work into the hands
of actors that are going to be speaking it.
And then you also want to think about, you
know, do you work well with other people?
Writing for the Daily Show, you're not just
going to be writing by yourself, you're going
to be working with many of the people who
are writing sometimes on the same exact sketch
that you're writing on. So you need to decide,
will I be able to sort of give up some of
my power and to write with other people on
the same thing. Or am I just not that kind
of a writer. So really think about, you know,
do you fit into TV or not. And then, you know,
you can actually join the writer's guild of
America, you can sort of start to build up
your portfolio and your resume in this way.
You know, move to New York, and really try
to break into writing. And maybe eventually
you'll get that job with the Daily Show.
