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"Startups are basically comedies [...]" I've been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur cu

"Startups are basically comedies [...]" I've been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture. Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network...

python_kiss 20y ago
"Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network..." heh, or you could always pitch to YCombinator :D
bootload 20y ago
'... been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture ...' AGENT: "So tell me about the show, what's it about?" NERD #1: "Well its 4 guys, sitting inside on computers typing, making jokes, writing code and eating pizza trying to reshape the social networks in cyberspace." AGENT: "So do you go outside?" GEEK #1: "No, we don't need to. I just look up 'alt.nerd.obsessive' and find the google location & look it up on google map." AGENT: "Do you do normal things?". "You know Like go to cafe's and meet women?". "You know talk, drink coffee?" GEEK #2: "I saw a girl this week. I've counted three this week... including the one at the 7-11". D"o you know what I'm working on? I'm optomising a ...." NERD #2: "Don't listen to them. They're doing server side work. We are the front end guys. I own a mac. It's got an OS10-X Tiger OS with ..." AGENT: zzz... zzz... zzz... NERD #1: "Guys, guys your blowing it, jeez. Now look what your've done. You've put the agent to sleep. How we ever going to get on TV?" Geek #2: "What about YouTube?" =========== Oh yeah it's really going to catch on :)
- lupin_sansei 20y ago
  You obviously haven't watched the IT Crowd: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=it+crowd&search=Search
  - danielha 20y ago
    I haven't, though it slightly rings a bell. I referred to the Wikipedia article on it and it reports a US pilot has just been filmed last month. I'll keep my eye on that one.
  - bootload 20y ago
    yes... very clever nerdy english show. Still waiting on series 2, "after the party" :)
danw 20y ago
Why write a script when you can just use reality? Give each startup in the next YC batch a video camera and get them to record the journey. They could either post it regularly as a video blog or save it all up and edit it into a lovely 2hour documentary. Would be great to watch and give outsiders a better idea of what startups are like. Kind of like 'Project Aardvark" [http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/].
- cnaclerio 20y ago
  Kind of like, Startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/

python_kiss 20y ago

"Maybe one of these days, I'll get a pilot-writer and pitch the idea to a network..." heh, or you could always pitch to YCombinator :D

bootload 20y ago

'... been seriously waiting for a Scrubs-style primetime comedy on startups and/or Silicon Valley-esque entrepreneur culture ...' AGENT: "So tell me about the show, what's it about?" NERD #1: "Well its 4 guys, sitting inside on computers typing, making jokes, writing code and eating pizza trying to reshape the social networks in cyberspace." AGENT: "So do you go outside?" GEEK #1: "No, we don't need to. I just look up 'alt.nerd.obsessive' and find the google location & look it up on google map." AGENT: "Do you do normal things?". "You know Like go to cafe's and meet women?". "You know talk, drink coffee?" GEEK #2: "I saw a girl this week. I've counted three this week... including the one at the 7-11". D"o you know what I'm working on? I'm optomising a ...." NERD #2: "Don't listen to them. They're doing server side work. We are the front end guys. I own a mac. It's got an OS10-X Tiger OS with ..." AGENT: zzz... zzz... zzz... NERD #1: "Guys, guys your blowing it, jeez. Now look what your've done. You've put the agent to sleep. How we ever going to get on TV?" Geek #2: "What about YouTube?" =========== Oh yeah it's really going to catch on :)

lupin_sansei 20y ago
You obviously haven't watched the IT Crowd: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=it+crowd&search=Search
- danielha 20y ago
  I haven't, though it slightly rings a bell. I referred to the Wikipedia article on it and it reports a US pilot has just been filmed last month. I'll keep my eye on that one.
- bootload 20y ago
  yes... very clever nerdy english show. Still waiting on series 2, "after the party" :)

danw 20y ago

Why write a script when you can just use reality? Give each startup in the next YC batch a video camera and get them to record the journey. They could either post it regularly as a video blog or save it all up and edit it into a lovely 2hour documentary. Would be great to watch and give outsiders a better idea of what startups are like. Kind of like 'Project Aardvark" [http://www.projectaardvark.com/movie/].

cnaclerio 20y ago
Kind of like, Startup.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/