Elliot Kalan has been the head writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 reboot. Now ...

With 94 submissions, this year's Best Comedy Writing category at the Emmys will have six finalists when the nominations are announced July 15. As expected, there are many single submissions from many ...

It takes a village to write an Emmy-quality episode. The 2025 field for Best Comedy Writing includes a whopping 19 writers, spanning six shows. Only one of the nominated episodes was penned by a ...

Saturday Night Live, and other sketch shows, are a blast. (I have bookmarked our post on the 80 best SNL sketches, and I keep pulling it up and watching a handful of them every day.) I love shows like ...

Pilot episodes are typical favorites here seen with past winners like “Hacks” last year. That puts the first episode of “Only Murders in the Building” in the thick of the race and also serves as a way ...

Meredith Scardino, a four-time Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and showrunner, visited Kelly Writers House on Tuesday to speak about navigating professional comedy writing. Scardino spoke with Penn ...

Outstanding Writing (Drama, Comedy, Limited/Anthology or TV Movie) Series Commentary (Updated May 29, 2025): When submitting episodes for Emmy consideration, especially in the ultra-competitive drama ...

John Peaslee, a longtime comedy writer best known for his work on Coach and According to Jim, died November 11 of natural causes at his Sherman Oaks, CA. home. He was 73. Peaslee’s death was confirmed ...