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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
Mine is to be a comedy screenwriter, specifically to showrun my own sitcom with of course, final say in all creative decisions.
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According to Charlie Day, that's entirely possible now. I was listening to him on a recent podcast by
The Nerdist and he said the FX network uses a business model that lets artists do whatever they want, and succeed or fail on their own terms (except they can't say 'f
uck' - and Louis CK has gone into
more detail about which words FX disallows. It's not many). He said they can afford to do this because they don't pay anybody anything.
He said they're basically like, "Here's nine dollars, take it and do whatever you want." And that's how 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' got off the ground.