Alec Berg

And I was like, "All right.

I wasn't expecting that." And then, uh, they, they were saying, you know, "There's this guy, Alec Berg, who just, uh, who he has a show, Silicon Valley, which is about to come out."

Love that show.

And I was like, "All right." So I met him, and then I saw Silicon Valley.

[laughs] No. No.

[laughs]

Weird, like, a connection that Alec Berg was one of the writers on that, the Michael- Mike Myers movie.

Oh, cool.

Yeah.

And I know Alec Berg did that show, so I'm sure that was-

Ah.

What a gift he is, you know? Alec was, uh, just terrific.

What do you think of that?

I will tell you, Jeff, Alec, and I at some point or another...

Oh, that's a much better

idea.

I guess everybody just kind of got busy.

But I wanted to just call it Showrunner, and I thought that would be a great name.

But I also thought it would be fun to be like Jeff Schaefer, Dave Mandel, Alec Berg... are showrunner or is showrunner, like really kind of confuse the tense or something.

I'm not sure, but anyway, we didn't get.

Um, but those two did the bulk of the screenwriting here.

The, uh, the studio also th- brought in, and this is probably gonna explain a lot, three Seinfeld writers, uh, Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, to fix the script.

Um, now-

Why? Was there something wrong with the script?

Well, it's not.

It's a 30-minute comedy, and it's executive produced by Alec Berg.

He's also the supervising writer, and Charlie Hall is going to star in it, and he will also write this project that is as yet untitled.

Now, here's the thing.

These are not like two fly-by-night people.

Alec Berg has 24 Emmy nominations.

OK, so this is a guy who has a significant history in TV.

And Charlie Hall is the son of Julia Louise Dreyfuss from Seinfeld.

Wow.

The screenplay is going to be written by Alec Berg, Jeff Schaefer, and David Mandel, who are famously writers from Barry, Silicon Valley, Dave, Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Seinfeld.

And all three of them actually worked on the 2003 live action Cat in the Hat, which was really weird.

And so I'm curious now that Audrey Geisel is no longer with us and doesn't have veto power over the tone.