It’s called “Happy Endings,” so you can infer what happens. It was the one where he’s stressed out, and he goes to the masseuse. I also wrote an episode of Wainy Days before that, which is a little on the risqué side, but it happened and it’s out there.
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I love that show so much, so it was a great way to get my first TV job. They were like, “Write something where Ken turns into Hitler,” so that’s what we did. The first comedy script I wrote that was produced was I co-wrote an episode of Childrens Hospital with Ken. What was the first comedy script that you wrote?
And I’ve written my whole life just as a secondary hobby, so it all fell into place after school. Early on, I was taking film classes in school, and after my first screenwriting class, I was like, “Oh, I kind of like this a whole lot better than the other thing that I’ve been trying to do.” So, I switched to that and, over time, really got into comedy writing. I’m from Alabama and I came out to college here with the intention of acting and auditioning and stuff. When did you decide you wanted to become a comedy writer?
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My first really favorite movie that I still love today was The Jerk. I just grew up watching sitcoms too, like Cheers and The Cosby Show. I remember watching a lot of SNL as a kid.
What were some of the first comedies that you got into when you were a kid? It makes you feel like you’ve accomplished something in life. There’s something about coming back every week and whittling it down to one winner. I was really into American Idol for a while and Top Chef. Yeah, I’m not into every single thing, but I do love The Bachelor. Have you always been a big fan of reality TV? There was a great format already in place that we drew from to create our show.
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We were like we can just transition it to a full season, then you have the ceremonies and the dates and everything. So, I just wrote a short that was basically the ballerina character and the Annie character, and the ballerina was played by Ken Jeong, so it was the obvious one you should pick and the other one. I had just watched the season where there was an obvious good girl and an obvious bad girl who were the choices, and the guy chose the one that the audience hated. Well, the short was basically parodying the last episode of The Bachelor where the guy has to choose between two different women to select who he’s going to propose to. What was it like transitioning it from a short into a web series? Upon reading it, we realized we could expand it and make a whole season out of it, and that’s what we did about a year later. I wrote it, and I was just planning on doing it as an internet short. I was a fan of The Bachelor for many years before I had the idea. So where did the idea for Burning Love come from originally?īurning Love originally came from just my love of reality TV. With Burning Love’s third season having just kicked off, I had the chance to talk with Erica Oyama about why Season 3 is “the dumbest season yet,” adapting the profane childrens’ book Get the Fuck to Sleep into a movie, and why so many people on the internet mistake Burning Love for a real reality show.
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Centered on a reality dating show, Burning Love masterfully mocks all the vapid, fame-hungry weirdos who populate America’s reality shows, while also expertly satirizing the reality shows themselves.īurning Love was created by Erica Oyama, a comedy writer who’s previously penned scripts for Childrens Hospital and David Wain’s web series Wainy Days, and directed by Oyama’s husband, Ken Marino of The State and Party Down fame. Since debuting last year, the Yahoo web series Burning Love has quickly grown into not just one of the best comedies on the internet but one of the best comedies anywhere – web, movies, TV.
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