Poking A Dead Frog: Conversations With Today’s Top Comedy Writers

"If you enjoy podcasts like Marc Maron’s WTF and J.R. Havlan’s Writer’s Bloc, or if you just enjoy being serious about comedy, then this book is for you. It’s filled with intelligent conversations about what comedy writers do but also about how hopeless it is to be one — so if you’re not doing it to fill some deep emotional void, run away. Each interview and essay in here says (shocker): Write what you find funny. Even if you’re not interested in a comedy writing career, at least you’ll get great suggestions for your Netflix queue."