David Javerbaum is a comedy writer. He has won 13 Emmy Awards in his career, 11 of which he received for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He runs the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod, an account known for its anti-established-religion tweets which served as the basis for his play An Act of God, which opened on Broadway in 2015 starring Jim Parsons, and again in 2016 starring Sean Hayes. Javerbaum was hired as a staff writer with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 1999. He was also one of the three principal authors of the show's textbook parody America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. He left the show in 2010. In 2016 Javerbaum co-created the Netflix sitcom Disjointed with Chuck Lorre.

He called in from his home in Hollywood and we talked comedy and drama and . . .

How he decides whether an idea is a show, a TV show, book . . . or yes, a Twitter account.

The most important skill he learned in graduate school.

What he thinks about the current state of comedy on Broadway.

The role of irony in writing.

Ego . . . when to set it aside, and when NOT to.

 

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