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    Makers: Jill Twiss: 'Ready, Aim, Recycle', Politics as Comedy and a Great Bunny Name

    Makers: Jill Twiss: 'Ready, Aim, Recycle', Politics as Comedy and a Great Bunny Name

    FromThe Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien

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    Makers: Jill Twiss: 'Ready, Aim, Recycle', Politics as Comedy and a Great Bunny Name

    FromThe Spark File with Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien

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    Length:
    68 minutes
    Released:
    Apr 9, 2020
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    This week on The Spark File, Susan and Laura talk with Emmy Award winning comedy writer, Jill Twiss about her years on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver making people laugh (rather than cry) from current events, and how constantly pitching new things lead to writing her successful children's books, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, and The Someone New.
    Released:
    Apr 9, 2020
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    Your one stop shop for creative ideas and inspiration. Each week on The Spark File podcast, Susan Blackwell and Laura Camien reach into their spark files and share stories, ideas and fascinations to ignite your imagination. Obsessed with creativity, Blackwell and Camien also talk with artists and makers, movers and shakers who have taken the spark of inspiration and fanned it into a flame. Hear from inspiring creatives like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Eric Stonestreet, Jonathan Groff, Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, Zachary Quinto, Leslie Odom Jr, Bobby Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Billy Eichner, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Karen Olivo, Sutton Foster, Michael R. Jackson and many more about their passions and their failures, their inspirations and their aspirations. Refill your creative fish pond with new ideas and fresh perspectives. Listen, then take it and make it!