Martini Shot

I used to live near a coffee place that had a fun tradition of choosing someone from their long line of customers and dubbing that person, Customer of the Week. They’d take your picture and post it next to the register and you’d get free coffee for that week and you’d bask in the approval of the pierced young people behind the counter, and pretend not to notice the other patrons noticing you, your celebrity, and the modest way you carried yourself during your special week.

Rob eats dinner with some friends and they stack up their cell phones on the table. First person to peek at his or her phone picks up the check...

Rob Long gets a free trip to a former Soviet republic and somehow applies that to show business.  It's complicated.

Something most people in Hollywood would rather not do: make the script better. By listening to executive notes.

Rob dives into an old controversy about women comedy writers, aggressive joke pitching, and the transgendered...

Rob Long on one of the stupidest things he's said – not ever, just in the past 48 hours – and how you can sometimes be both stupid and smart.  Or at least he can...

The only reason anyone is nice to anyone else in the entertainment business: because friends are your retirement plan.

Rob impresses an agent by ordering a cobb salad.  Apparently, impressing an agent is easy to do...

Rob Long on the only way to save a project from certain failure: fire the writer.

Rob Long on the foundations of the television business: funny jokes at the end of the scene and attractive people to look at. Everything else is just, art.