Susan Says with Susan Silver

Hot Pants In Hollywood is a showbiz memoir, and much more.  It’s a Baby Boomer’s life

on steroids.  Susan Silver was one of the first female TV comedy writers, with credits like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, and Bob Newhart, among others.

As the lyrics from the iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show said, “She made it after all!” From another Midwestern town, Milwaukee, with all its 1960’s values and normalcy, Susan went on to fame and fortune in Hollywood, had a successful career as one of the first women in TV sitcoms, and reinvented herself in different prominent arenas in New York.

Along the way, she “Searched for Mr. Adequate,” her well-received dating column, had many romantic adventures, loves and loss, and she’s ‘still here!’

Though her story is unique due to the career she chose, her life is relatable to all women: Baby Boomers dealing with divorce, dating, aging parents, or young women of today, looking for advice in work or love. If you love showbiz and want to know what it’s like behind the scenes, Hot Pants in Hollywood is very funny…sexy too! 

 

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Hot Pants In Hollywood is a showbiz memoir, and much more.  It’s a Baby Boomer’s life

on steroids.  Susan Silver was one of the first female TV comedy writers, with credits like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, and Bob Newhart, among others.

As the lyrics from the iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show said, “She made it after all!” From another Midwestern town, Milwaukee, with all its 1960’s values and normalcy, Susan went on to fame and fortune in Hollywood, had a successful career as one of the first women in TV sitcoms, and reinvented herself in different prominent arenas in New York.

Along the way, she “Searched for Mr. Adequate,” her well-received dating column, had many romantic adventures, loves and loss, and she’s ‘still here!’

Though her story is unique due to the career she chose, her life is relatable to all women: Baby Boomers dealing with divorce, dating, aging parents, or young women of today, looking for advice in work or love. If you love showbiz and want to know what it’s like behind the scenes, Hot Pants in Hollywood is very funny…sexy too! 

 

70's Sitcom Writer Susan Silver | Talk and Book Signing

Saturday November 18:  1:00PM - 2:00PM Merritt Bookstore 57 Front Street Millbrook, NY

Join Susan as the  70's Sitcom writer  recounts stories of  the past and her experience as a female comedy writer in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by men, deliciously dished in her new book: HOT PANTS IN HOLLYWOOD: SEX, SECRETS & SITCOMS

Hot Pants In Hollywood is a Show Biz memoir, and much more. It's a Baby Boomer's life on steroids. Susan Silver was one of the first female TV comedy writers with credits like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, Bob Newhart, among others

Hot Pants In Hollywood is a showbiz memoir, and much more.  It’s a Baby Boomer’s life

on steroids.  Susan Silver was one of the first female TV comedy writers, with credits like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maude, and Bob Newhart, among others.

As the lyrics from the iconic Mary Tyler Moore Show said, “She made it after all!” From another Midwestern town, Milwaukee, with all its 1960’s values and normalcy, Susan went on to fame and fortune in Hollywood, had a successful career as one of the first women in TV sitcoms, and reinvented herself in different prominent arenas in New York.

Along the way, she “Searched for Mr. Adequate,” her well-received dating column, had many romantic adventures, loves and loss, and she’s ‘still here!’

Though her story is unique due to the career she chose, her life is relatable to all women: Baby Boomers dealing with divorce, dating, aging parents, or young women of today, looking for advice in work or love. If you love showbiz and want to know what it’s like behind the scenes, Hot Pants in Hollywood is very funny…sexy too!

Susan Silver has written for some of the most iconic sitcoms of all time, creating laugh lines for Mary Tyler Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Beatrice Arthur, Bob Newhart, and The Partridge Family.

Susan was a trailblazer when she began her writing career in 1971 at The Mary Tyler Moore Show. A female comedy writer in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by men, she is perhaps the first and only television writer to be featured in TV Guide wearing hot pants.

As casting Director at Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, she also knew (and not just in the Biblical sense) some of Hollywood’s most desirable leading men, and even had a run-in in with Richard Nixon (non-romantic, thank you very much).

Now, Susan dishes about the highs and lows of both her comedy career and love life in her new memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms.

From Hi Mount Press in the spring.

Susan went on to write for The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, The Partridge Family and Square Pegs. She continues to teach comedy writing at venues including the Television Academy and the New School and has lectured at the Paley Center, SCAD, and Brandeis University.

Susan has appeared on CNN, HLN, Good Day NY, and The Today Show. She has written opinion-eds for The New York Times and Refinery 29 and had a long running column on newyorksocialdiary.com called “The Search For Mr. Adequate.” Her weekly radio commentary “Susan Says,” which covers news, politics and culture can be heard on an NPR affiliate in Connecticut as well as on-demand at robinhoodradio.comand iTunes.

Susan Silver has written for some of the most iconic sitcoms of all time, creating laugh lines for Mary Tyler Moore, Sarah Jessica Parker, Beatrice Arthur, Bob Newhart, and The Partridge Family.

Susan was a trailblazer when she began her writing career in 1971 at The Mary Tyler Moore Show. A female comedy writer in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by men, she is perhaps the first and only television writer to be featured in TV Guide wearing hot pants.

As casting Director at Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, she also knew (and not just in the Biblical sense) some of Hollywood’s most desirable leading men, and even had a run-in in with Richard Nixon (non-romantic, thank you very much).

Now, Susan dishes about the highs and lows of both her comedy career and love life in her new memoir, Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets and Sitcoms.

From Hi Mount Press in the spring.

Susan went on to write for The Bob Newhart Show, Maude, The Partridge Family and Square Pegs. She continues to teach comedy writing at venues including the Television Academy and the New School and has lectured at the Paley Center, SCAD, and Brandeis University.

Susan has appeared on CNN, HLN, Good Day NY, and The Today Show. She has written opinion-eds for The New York Times and Refinery 29 and had a long running column on newyorksocialdiary.com called “The Search For Mr. Adequate.” Her weekly radio commentary “Susan Says,” which covers news, politics and culture can be heard on an NPR affiliate in Connecticut as well as on-demand at robinhoodradio.com and iTunes.