Akiva Schaffer
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we debated, do we need to beep it?
Like we were so new.
We were like, that word couldn't be on Fox.
So we should take it out instead of like intelligently being like, no, just play the funniest stuff.
They just want people who are funny.
They know you can take out a bad word.
But it's just this like, we were just kids.
The video killed.
And it's the reason we got Awesome Time Deal.
And that was the biggest laugh in it.
And it was a valuable lesson about just show them funny stuff and let the chips fall where they may.
Because you just want them to know you have stuff you can do.
Yeah, so we had done our first year of the MTV Movie Awards, because it's 2004, right?
So we had done the Lindsay Lohan one.
So now we were on that list of like, hey, these guys will write for award shows, for funny award shows.
And G4, the channel that was a cable channel that was all about video games, was this the second year of it maybe?
Was trying to make their own or did make their own award show called G4ia.
And we got hired as writers.