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Defamer is committed to informing its currently unemployed, comedy-writing readers about exciting job opportunities being made available outside of the traditional TV-staffing-season process, and so we pass along this painstakingly detailed Craiglist cattle-call for our town's funniest, least annoying, and most blindly trusting scribes. Sure, trying to staff a union show on CL seems like a strategy only marginally less suspicious than sneaking up behind anyone tapping away at a laptop at a local Starbucks and ensnaring them in an enormous butterfly net, but hey—breaking into the sitcom game has never been tougher, so why not take a potentially fatal risk to get that first gig? An excerpt:

Comedy Writers Wanted for WGA TV Show

YOU *SHOULD* PURSUE THIS JOB IF:

—You're a great comedy writer who's just out of college and dying to write for television.
— You're a great comedy writer who hasn't yet figured out how to break into the biz (i.e. get an agent, etc.)
—You're a great comedy writer who has worked in TV a lot, but are out of work right now because there aren't so many primetime half-hour comedies on television anymore.
—You're a great comedy writer who's willing to work lots of late nights and weekends.

—You're a great comedy writer and making WGA scale (approx. $3,000 per week) sounds REALLY APPEALING to you. —You're a great comedy writer and you're a lot of fun to be with. —You're a great comedy writer and you usually get along GREAT with the people you work with. — You're a great comedy writer and you don't mind at all having your work completely re-written, even though you know your draft ROCKED.


YOU SHOULD *NOT* PURSUE THIS JOB IF:

—You're a great comedy writer who has worked in TV a lot, but now you're bitter about the entertainment business.
—You're a great comedy writer and you want a 10AM to 6PM job.
— You really really really really really want a job writing on Entourage or The Office, but will "settle" for a show on a kids' network, and then be perpetually bummed that you didn't get on The Office.
—You're a great comedy writer and making WGA scale (approx. $3,000 per week) sounds REALLY CRAPPY to you.
— You're a great comedy writer and you're depressing to be with.
—You're a great comedy writer and you're usually DIFFICULT with the people at work.
—You're a great comedy writer and, when you're rewritten (by someone "WAY less talented" than you), you become filled with rage and want to bludgeon the person who rewrote you.
—You would ever write (or laugh at) any of these 6 lines of dialogue:

(1) "Hey, stop eating my dinner, Eatie McEaterson!"
(2) "These nachos are like a party in my mouth!"
(3) "Whooaaa, too much information."
(4) "And by [that] I mean [this]."
(5) "Whoops, did I say that out loud?"
(6) "I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit."

If you enjoy any of the above 6 lines of dialogue, time to move on to the next Craigslist ad! [...]

If you really hate this ad and you want to tell us how awful, unprofessional, and arrogant it is, please send that email to either your mom or your nearest Home Depot.

Best Regards,

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The rest of the ad is here; reading the entire thing should have any aspiring, unrepresented comedy writer more than willing to follow the time-honored path of blowing an agent if it means never having to deal with another Craigslist job posting like this one to find a job that comes with WGA benefits.