TheR-Man

Sean, thank you for doing Newswire every day. You're one of the few writers who does something profoundly creative and hilarious with the news, rather than just being overtly cynical and catty and passing it off as humor. I wanted to ask this: what is your typical process for writing a Newswire? What makes you go from a fairly normal story with humor to something as bizarre yet wonderful as the Entourage movie script or the Malick-TMZ piece?

EDIT: Also, have you ever considered writing/compiling a book of the best Newswires/Buzzkills/some other topic? Or will that come after Dan in Real Life 2: Back 2 Tha Life gets greenlit?

That's a good point. If any topic ever catches your fancy to write about in long-form (ala Rabin w/ flops, Phish/ICP), I (and no doubt, much of the AV Club commentariat) would be sure to buy a copy. Or.... put it on our tab.