Conan on writing

Conan on writing

Conan O’Brien on Twitter as a tool for writing:

What’s interesting about Twitter is that because you’re limited to 140 characters … it’s actually a great comedy-writing tool. There’s this economy of words. So I’m constantly writing things, and I run them past [Blair] and he’ll say that’s actually three words over. That forces you to look back at the sentence. It forces you to crystalize your comedy idea, which is fascinating.

Smart. More in the video, and outtakes from Google where the interview took place.

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