Will Friedle
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Podcast Appearances
Did you meet David Kendall there?
I don't know if George Clooney was... He was in the cast at one point.
If he was in the cast when I was there, I didn't know to meet him.
I should have been paying attention.
So I tried to pitch an episode because I was the prize winning writer.
They had to give me an episode, but they didn't necessarily have to air it.
I just had to pay me for it and get me into the Writers Guild.
So the problem was the show had been on the air for seven years and they couldn't do sex, drugs or rock and roll.
and they had done everything else.
So I would pitch ideas and they'd say, no, we did that.
I mean, it was much, much easier for Shakespeare to write Hamlet than to get an episode past the staff.
It was just, it was impossible.
So finally I came up with an idea
And it was around Christmas time of that year.