HBO will do a documentary on standup

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 26th, 2005

Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld are collaborating on a documentary on modern standup comedy, to be shown on HBO. Stay tuned for details.

And Larry Miller has sold a pilot. Tommy James spotted the item in the trades. He said that Sony Pictures Television will produce. Miller creatd the series with writer Eileen Conn, called Uncommon Sense, and it will center on a columnist and his wife, to be played, respectively, by Miller and Conn. Miller has been doing all right in movies over the past decade. His absence from the standup stage is keenly felt. His bit about partying while his parents were out of town is one of the best-written 4:30 ever seen on network television. (The one that ends with Miller’s girlfriend, on the couch in the living room, rolling a joint, naked, as the front doorknob turns and Miller, who is two rooms away, hears her saying, to his early-returning parents, “Who am I?… Who are you?!“)

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