Andy Cowan (writer on "Seinfeld," "Cheers," and "Third Rock From The Sun")
Description
Andy Cowan has a comedy resume anybody would be envious of. After a stint as a stand-up in the late ‘70s at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles (alongside such comics as David Letterman), Cowan became a talent coordinator at the legendary Merv Griffin Show, where he met such luminaries as Sir Laurence Olivier, Andy Kaufman, Ethel Merman, Tony Curtis, and Orson Welles (the day before he died). Cowan then went on to write for some of the top sit coms in television history, including “Cheers,” “Seinfeld,” and “Third Rock From The Sun.” In this interview, Cowan explains the origins of the “Opposite” episode of Seinfeld and its ongoing cultural impact. Cowan also discusses working with Sid Caesar’s head-writer, Mel Tolkin, befriending Jerry Lewis, and voicing the mysterious Admiral Ackbar for a Star Wars audiobook. You can read about these parts of Andy's career and more in his funny and fascinating memoir entitled Banging My Head Against the Wall: A Comedy Writer's Guide to Seeing Stars from Black Rose Writing, with a foreword by Jay Leno, acquired in 2019 by the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y., which can be ordered at http://bit.ly/amazonbanging.
United States
