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I grew up watching 'I Love Lucy.'
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Lucy
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They didn't let us see daylight on 'Community.'
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Daylight
Let Us
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Humanity as a concept is neither comic nor tragic.
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Tragic
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Women are not diversity. We're half the population.
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Population
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You're trying to write for your idols. It's strange.
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Idols
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I started reading 'The Onion' when I was 13 years old.
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Onion
Started Reading
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I don't think any of my classmates would say I was a class clown.
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Clown
Class Clown
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Yeah, I started with 'The Onion,' that was my first job out of college.
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First Job
Onion
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Just because you're a woman in gaming doesn't mean you're a nice person all the time necessarily.
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Gaming
Nice Person
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Growing up I was very feminist. I had strong opinions, but I would go about my beliefs in the wrong ways.
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Beliefs
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For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.
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Stakes
Egos
Great Thing
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It's dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone else as a villain. It gets in the way of empathy.
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Villain
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Once I started writing at 'The Onion' I was like, oh this is it, this is my dream job, I've achieved my dream job.
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Achieved
Onion
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I'm getting to know the 'Modern Family' cast, and they are very sweet. They are very nice and supportive and game for things.
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Modern Family
Supportive
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'Community' was my world for four seasons and my job for three, and has hold of my whole heart like a bad-news high school boyfriend.
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Seasons
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Any time you give the average person the opportunity to explain themselves on a national scale, they're always going to sound like a fool.
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Average Person
Fool
Time Always Opportunity
Scale
Time Opportunity Always
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I would love to approach, like, what are the lives of the people that actually play 'Mythic Quest,' because you have these devs that are affecting their lives.
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Affecting
Mythic
Quest
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I was groped by a producer at a party a couple years ago, after which I made an anonymous complaint to HR. As far as I know he was never personally disciplined.
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Anonymous
Complaint
Couple Years
Disciplined
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In 'Red Dead Redemption' they have a thing where if you walk through snow your footsteps stay where you've gone. I think that's just representative of humanity.
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Footsteps
Redemption
Snow
Representative
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When I was in college I wrote for a newspaper there called the 'Every Three Weekly,' which, like a lot of college humor papers, was sort of based on 'The Onion.'
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Papers
Newspaper
Onion
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On 'Modern Family,' we have outlines, really strong outlines, when we go off to draft, so you have a reasonable expectation that that will be the story of your episode.
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Modern Family
Outlines
Reasonable
Family Your Will
Draft
Episode
Expectation
Family Will Your
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Anytime people engage in something creative or just something they are really passionate about, obviously, it's hard to separate your personal feelings from what it is you are making.
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Anytime
Engage
Just Something
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Women are not different creatures from men. They don't need to be extra careful around us. They just need to treat us with the same basic respect and dignity that they show to other men.
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Dignity
Men Women Respect
Extra
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There are headlines that I remember pitching that I think I know that they're not any good. But some part of my heart is attached to them. Like I had this one that was 'Spork Used as Knife.'
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Headlines
Pitching
Attached
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There have always been funny women. But in some ways, it takes a while for there to be women who were watching women on television for years and then grow up and think, 'I could do funny stuff.'
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Funny Stuff
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We're sort of in an age now when we have too much information, which can take us down a specific path. You're getting too much information too quickly to be able to slow it down and parse it out.
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Parse
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What I always liked about 'Sunny' whenever it approached any sort of hot-button issue is that, ultimately, what the characters felt about it could change at any given instant depending on what benefited them the most personally.
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Instant
Sunny
Depending
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When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it's socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, 'I can speak my mind and say what I want.'
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Acceptable
Socially
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And what's nice about 'Sunny' is that it has this honesty with the viewers, which is, like, they're here because they're on a television show and they're locked in this purgatory where they have to keep doing the same things with each other.
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Honesty
Locked
Purgatory
Sunny
Viewers
Same Things
Television Show
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We need to make sure we're bringing in diverse voices and not expecting everyone to be a representation of their ethnicity or their age or their gender, but judge them individually and make sure that we're figuring out who the person is and not just checking a box.
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Diverse
Ethnicity
Expecting
Representation
Checking
Figuring
Individually
Voices
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I haven't worked on a lot of different shows, but from just watching different shows I've noticed that there isn't necessarily on every show that love of crafting an episode that has the three part act structure that comes around and actually tells a complete story.
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Crafting
Episode
Noticed
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If you find a story that everybody likes and everybody relates to in some way, then you know you have a good story. But if you're telling a story and all the women are going, 'I'm checked out of this, I just don't really care,' then you're going to have some problems.
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Good Story
Checked
Relates
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I realized there wasn't a structure in place at the time to have female mentors in positions above you. If there were women above me, they had gone through such a difficult time to get there that they had internalized the idea that women share the same space in the writers' room.
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Difficult Time
Space Time Women
Mentors
Positions
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You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it's sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it's that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.
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Accurate
Hardship
Levity
Representation
Struggling
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