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Veteran comedian and comedy writer Carol Leifer is taking an entrepreneurial approach with her new half-hour spec script Have a Great Day. Instead of pitching it to the networks, the Seinfeld alumna is staging a live table read for network and studio buyers and producers. Leifer has assembled a cast of actors she has worked with on other shows as well as other talent brought in by casting director Tracy Lilienfield (Will & Grace). Starring in Have a Great Day, an ensemble comedy based Leifer’s life as a comedian and comedy writer living in LA with her partner and extended family, are Andy Kindler (Everybody Loves Raymond), Rachael Harris (The Hangover), Kym Whitley (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Emily Rutherfurd (New Adventures of Old Christine), Eric Allan Kramer (Good Luck Charlie) and Valerie Harper.
If Have a Great Day is picked up, “it’s my hope to retain this cast, subject to their availability,” Leifer said. Richie Keen is directing the project,
which Leifer describes as a scripted comedy with room for improvisation. Leifer, who appeared on Celebrity Apprentice earlier this year, received an Emmy nomination for her writing work on this year’s Academy Awards. The table read is held by the Collective, which manages Leifer, and Kaplan Stahler Agency, which recently signed her. It will take place November 1 at Acme Comedy Theater.
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Good. Carol Leifer is a talented comedienne who should not have been cut out of The Social Network!
Best of luck to you. It’s time for the neck-snapping women to step up in front. We need some new stories, girl. We’re DYING out here!
–Erika
Umm, the last thing we need is more neck-snapping women. Seriously.
Proves there’s more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak.
Good for yor Carol! You’re a delightful person and a smashing good comedy writer. Best of luck.
This writer comedian seriously ROCKS. Good for her. She is so talented.
Maybe this new season of TV sucks so bad because so few of the new shows were created by women or are about women. Hello?
I agree. I’m waiting for Deadline to announce half hour comedies about women, or women in families, and nothing.
I predict it doesn’t get picked up. This sort of thing is done all the time and isn’t being done at a very illustrious level or with that great a cast. Frankly, she’s had lots of shots.
I have been a fan of hers and waiting for a chance to see her out in the world this way for a while. Network TV has become so limited and BORING. A white man’s party except for Modern Family. How did something that wonderful and a-typical ever get on the air?
Love her.
It’s funny, that’s how. And what’s a “white man’s party?”
Anonymous, why don’t you turn on network TV during prime time. You’ll see the perspective of most scripted shows is that of the white man. And because there are so many of these shows, that is probably why it was referred to as a “party.”
The saddest thing of all to me is that the network executives are primarily women, and yet most shows are all skewed for young men. Guess what, programming geniuses… young men aren’t watching TV! Go after an audience that is! Then market to them! Problem solved.
Its not so much a white man’s party as an under 35 party. The tentacles of Wall Street extends to television programming. Wall Street’s goal is to create debtors who will be indentured for their entire life.
If indenturing consumers is the goal, then indenturing those under 35 creates the most profitable residual income from debt. Glorifying irresponsible behavior is less a white man’s perspective and more so a way to encourage the youth to “go for it”, and then live with the debt obligations that “going for it” creates for the rest of their lives.
Bankster Conspiracy Against Older Americans
That is why Barack Obama won in 2008 over Hillary Clinton. Television was already catering to the younger crowd, Late night Talk Shows, a decidedly white man’s party, catered to the younger crowd. Hillary Clinton became an easy target for the white man’s party talk shows. Ironic isn’t it, that the white man’s late night talk show party preferred Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. The biggest whore in this arena is probably the hippest whore, Jon Stewart.
Barack Obama’s entire approach to the home foreclosure issue has been so disingenuous that it wreaks of someone who is in the pocket of the banksters, and that explains why Hillary Clinton was pushed out and Barack Obama welcomed in the by the “white man’s party”.
It’s an interesting idea and is done all the time in the theatre world. I guess the real question is do you have the juice to get the right people there and how seriously do you take the idea that the actors are “attached.” No doubt networks will resent having to pick up a cast as well as a script and that probably means at least some of the actors will get screwed. I agree with previous posters that it is unfortunate that network comedy seems so male-dominated these days (as does film comedy). It is truly narrow and boring. But this kind of thing doesn’t help bring new blood to the TV world. It only works if you have the contacts to make it worthwhile and that means TV veterans not newbies. It’s far easier to write a brilliant TV spec than it is to get Warner Brothers or ABC to come to your party. Of course, even if you write a brilliant new spec it’s almost a certainty they’ll still buy a tired, derivative pitch from an experienced TV writer so not sure how much any of it matters.
It’s a stunt! Hollywood hates stunts!
Hooray! I’ve always been a Carol Leifer fan…hope it gets picked up!
i LOVE carol leifer. this needs to get picked up.
that cast is incredible. wow.
Sorry, I’m busy Nov. 1st.
Carol gave the most disgusting, horrifying eulogy at John Ritter’s memorial. Instead of discussing John, it was all about her, and her show “Alright Already.” The self-centeredness produced many audible gasps inside the El Capitan that day. If I hadn’t been there that day, I wouldn’t have believed that someone was capable of that level of self-absorption.
It began with “I met John when I cast his wife Amy in my sit-com ‘Alright Already,’ a critically lauded show canceled way too soon by a network that never appreciated its full potential…”
Carol, funerals are not the time to recall your own career frustrations, especially when eulogizing someone as talented and generous as John Ritter.
But good luck with your TV show. It’s obviously what you care about most…
Carol At The Funeral? Gross me out if this is true. Really bogue.
all she has is oscar writing
Great for her. Working with Tracy Lilenfield on Will and Grace (btw my fave) shows talent and skill. I hope this project works.
These naysayers here and pessimists need to wait and see how the table read goes over in front of a live audience BEFORE predicting anything.
Brainy beauty, funny lady. We at the secret TV show I work on are eager to see more great things created by comedic genius Carol Leifer.