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Sunny Zimmerman

LA-based comedian, improviser, and writer (they/them), creator and star of the award-winning comedy play LBJ: The Play.

Sep 23, 2026

4:04
Wait, so Sunny, this is your idea?
4:07
Sort of.
4:08
So, uh, I was talking everybody's ear off about these books because they taught me so much about politics, more than our collective poli sci degree, Robert.
4:18
So I was just chatting about it so much that one day, uh, Caitlin, who's a good friend of mine, so you know, preexisting relationship before this working one, um, we were hanging out and she's just like, "You should just write a show where you're LBJ," [laughs] which was such a good idea.
4:36
And um, I said, "You're right, Caitlin." And we were actually hanging out with our other friend Albert, who's in the play.
4:42
He looks exactly like a Kennedy.
4:44
He's a very handsome man.

5 MINS LATER

10:11
How do you feel?
13:22
[laughs]
13:22
Okay.
13:22
So this form is gonna revolve around a single event.
13:26
So we do, our first scene is going to establish that event, and then we do scenes after that kind of focusing on one particular character and fleshing out some of their background.
13:35
So we're going through scenes that give us more information about them, and then we'll go back to the original scene, to the original event, and, you know, kind of see more from that character with that new information, and then we may switch to a different character and see more scenes about them, and then go back to the event again, et cetera, et cetera.

39 MINS LATER

53:21
Mm-hmm.
53:21
And so, like, the three of us do a lot of work up top to flesh out the episode, and, like, what happens, and each episode we have a c- a guest on who's, like, a character from the show, either an actor that was on the show, or, like, the showrunner, or a writer from the show.
53:37
Um, and so, like, we have to kind of flesh out what they need to accomplish, and, like, there is a, a plot that's kind of carried out over the course of the season.

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