Martini Shot

Rob tries to cast a role for a very large person, but makes a big mistake: he uses the term “hugely overweight” in the character description. He’ll never do that again.

Rob Long remembers AC Lyles, the Mayor of the Paramount lot, and the best-dressed man in show business.

On today’s Martini Shot I figure out how never to come up with a new idea for a comedy. Just do the funny version of a successful drama.

Rob speaks truth to power: if a writer surfs the web all day, the writer doesn't get paid. If an executive surfs the web all day, the executive gets promoted…

The trick to making a sale: you make your pitch, and then you shut up. It's the shutting up part that messes most people up.

Rob faces what can only be described as an ethical dilemma. Which is unusual for him because he doesn't usually have ethics.

Rob talks about the second worst thing in the world: pitching a show the network doesn’t really want. The worst thing, of course, is pitching something they do.

Rob adds a laugh track to every single sentence he says.

Rob goes on a series of mini vacations, which sounds like dementia, but is in fact a way to get through a lot of stress at work.

Rob Long imitates assistants trying to schedule a meeting between their very two busy bosses, neither one of whom wants to be perceived as accommodating the other.