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Want to help protect your region's sources of fresh water? Or find out the results of the latest water-quality tests for the stuff you're drinking? If you live in the […]
When Josh Lieb set out to write a book about a 12-year-old billionaire from Nebraska, the comedy writer and producer of The Daily Show, didn’t incorporate too many details from […]
Amidst the all the discussion of President Obama’s Nobel Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences quietly made another political statement by giving the Nobel Prize in Economics to to […]
So corporate America is expected to keep most people healthy at a reasonable cost. As sportscaster Al Michaels once asked: "Do You Believe in Miracles?"
Conversations about mental health parity in insurance coverage trigger my repressed memory.
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Josh Lieb had worked in the writer's rooms of comedy successes from the Simpsons to the Daily Show, but he warns those who want to follow in his footsteps that […]
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A conversation with the author of "I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President."
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Is Ray Bradbury's most famous work nothing more than an "authorial circle jerk"?
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We may all want to be the next drug and booze fueled literary outlaw like Hunter Thompson, but Josh Lieb explains that alcohol leads to early flameouts and difficult lives. […]
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When asked about how he overcomes writer's block, TV writer Josh Lieb thinks about the glory of football.
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Josh Lieb describes the childhood that doomed him to become a TV writer.
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Josh Lieb is a bit underwhelmed by Bob Mankoff's prolific New Yorker cartooning.
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TV writer Josh Lieb's biggest mistake was burning out when his star was on the rise; he never knew how quickly he would lose Hollywood momentum.
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Daily Show writer Josh Lieb's literary heroes include Charles Dickens and Danny Pinkwater.
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The usually cynical comedy writer Josh Lieb gets sentimental about love.
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Josh Lieb is very excited about his children, but he worries about education in the United States.
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Josh Lieb's process of finding a publisher for and writing his book was criminally easy.
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Josh Lieb describes the struggles and joys of keeping daily political comedy fresh, making Obama funny, and working with the creative minds in the writer's room.
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It says something about our world that the largest audiences these days are reading books for kids.