Lewis Black

I mean, James Gandolfini, one of his first performances was there.

The writers are really Aaron Sorkin, his first.

God, those are major names.

Who, True Blood.

Okay.

His first, American Beauty.

All of his first work was done there.

All of it.

There's a number of other writers who are just straight up playwrights that you're known for playwriting.

And we had everybody because nobody had, there was no places for people to work.

He actually went on, he was on CBS's Sunday Morning and talked about the fact that he owed the success.

You know, that was the reason he, it was from that moment that he got his agent.

His agent got a few good men done on Broadway within a year.

Wow.

But otherwise, there was nothing fucking going on in New York.

Yeah, I mean, there were certain things, there were certain moments of certain plays that were done, but very little.

And so we were displaced.

And what we did was, you know, somebody had, we worked on the premise, you know, somebody comes in, they do something that's good.

they recommend somebody great and we would do them.

And so a lot of it, we didn't, you know, it was all about, uh, and, and you bring the audience in and these people wanted an audience and they bring people in.