{"id":493,"date":"2012-06-19T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=493"},"modified":"2012-06-19T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:06:19","slug":"a-look-back-at-charlie-kaufmans-sitcom-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/19\/a-look-back-at-charlie-kaufmans-sitcom-work\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back At Charlie Kaufman’s Sitcom Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Charlie Kaufman isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly an impersonal writer. His attempts to adapt The Orchid Thief<\/em> turned into Adaptation., <\/em>a movie about a painfully self-aware screenwriter named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Charlie Kaufman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d falling apart while attempting to adapt The Orchid Thief<\/em>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a struggle to imagine Kaufman, either fictionalized or IRL, thriving in the anonymous and often abrasive environment of a sitcom writer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room. So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surprising that, before breaking into screenwriting, Kaufman worked in television for almost a decade, staffing on sketch shows like The Dana Carvey Show <\/em>and The Edge <\/em>and sitcoms like Get A Life <\/em>and Ned & Stacey<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evidence to support the idea that Kaufman might not have thrived in collaborative settings. In this oral history<\/a> of The Dana Carvey Show<\/em>, the writers describe him in the same way surprised neighbors describe convicted serial killers, mentioning that he was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153really quiet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153extremely shy and awkward,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kept to himself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Considering how poorly suited Kaufman seems for the job of sitcom writing, I wanted to take a look at his episodes of Get A Life <\/em>and Ned & Stacey <\/em>and see if there was any evidence of the man who would go on to write, among other things, the definitive film about a freelance puppeteer possessing a major film actor.<\/p>\n

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Charlie Kaufman isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly an impersonal writer. His attempts to adapt The Orchid Thief turned into Adaptation., a movie about a painfully self-aware screenwriter named \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Charlie Kaufman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d falling apart while attempting to adapt The Orchid Thief. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a struggle to imagine Kaufman, either fictionalized or IRL, thriving in the anonymous and often abrasive environment of … <\/p>\n

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