Sitcom Room 2

It's picture day. No time to write. Must grab my protest sign and re-enact the final scene from ON THE WATERFRONT.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this weekend's Sitcom Room 2 seminar. The scenes you guys wrote were great. Might as well join on us the picket line. You'll be in the guild soon enough.

Here are a few photos of the event:

Me, lecturing. I think this is the part where I told them I invented situation comedy.

Here are the Sitcommunists, captured in the one minute they enjoyed my lecture.

The actors who performed their scenes much better than they performed mine. Kimberly Wallis, Jeremy Licht, and Andy Goldberg. Kimberly was just on CSI: NEW YORK last week but you might not recognize her without a syringe sticking out of her neck.

The students were broken into four writing room teams. Here's one team getting studio "notes". See how thrilled they are. The note they've just been given is "Is there any way to write-in Renee Taylor?"

One of the groups hard at work. Could just as easily be a scene from Prison Break.

The seminar concluded with a panel of highly-respected-now-striking writers. Pictured: Fred Rubin, Marley Sims, Phoef Sutton, and me. Missing from the picture is my partner, David Isaacs. He's determined to be the "Maris" of my blog.

Again, thanks to all! For a first-person account of what the weekend was really like, participant Kari Geltmeyer files this in her blog.

Now I must put on my Norma Rae costume and storm the Fox lot.