(Continued from yesterday...) So as I was saying, I fired my manager. But before that happened, he did help me get an agent - I had fired my (dickhead) agent at CAA a year before. And the agent he helped me get is the one I still have today and I actually love him.
The best part about my agent now is that he knows of my treatment by the manager and the guy I had at CAA, so he constantly overcompensates. When it's been awhile and he calls to check in, he goes "I don't want you to think I'm like that asshole manager!"
I'm glad that thought is in his head. I don't want him to be like that either. And I'm just waiting for the day when he slips a little and I can hit him with "you know, this is exactly how that asshole manager used to treat me". It would crush him. I love having my finger on that trigger.
And I have to say, being on the show I'm on now is helping a lot.
To be honest, these shows don't make that much of a difference to me. I always feel like I'm doing the same thing, writing jokes that I think are funny, etc. Obviously, the end product is very different for the audience, but to me it's all similar.
So this has been a strange phenomena for me. Our show is doing pretty well, and people are treating me differently. It's very confusing. Am I a better writer now? No. I just completely lucked into a good situation with a show that people like.
The phone calls from Team Handleman have dramatically increased. Now he buys me cocktails and dinner. He acts like the scripts I give him are good and important to him.
It sorta makes me depressed. Why?
Because now I see how shabbily I was treated before when I was even more of a nobody. And I'm pretty sure I'll go back to that status when I leave this show and get hired to write for Chelsea Lately. Which is almost guaranteed to happen at this point.
Until then, I'm enjoying the attention.
Friday, 19 November 2010
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