BA #227: Paul Lieberstein
On the two-hundred and twenty-seventh Box Angeles writer Paul Lieberstein (The Newsroom, King of the Hill) stops by Studio 309. He discusses making a sitcom in high school, playing the vibraphone, learning how to act on ‘The Office’, and more!
the BA #227 breakdown
– Box rants a random episode button idea for VOD.
– Drinking and rituals.
– Growing up in Connecticut and doing a sitcom in high school.
– Attending Hamilton College in upstate New York and an economics hot take.
– Playing vibraphone in the jazz band and briefly playing soccer.
– Moving to NYC and briefly working in finance before starting to write.
– Landing a William Morris agent with a writing partner and feeling rich after ‘Clarissa Explains It All’.
– Living on Hollywood Blvd and getting into some various writing rooms.
– Getting ‘King of the Hill’ from brother-in-law and starting acting on ‘The Office’.
– The Scrantron Strangler fan theory and venturing into film w/ ‘Song of Back and Neck’ at Tribeca.
STUDIO BEER – Reel Brewery, Untitled Pilsner
