Carter Bays
Carter Bays
Carter L. Bays is an American television showrunner, writer and producer. Along with writing partner Craig Thomas, he is best known as creator, writer, and executive producer of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. His show has been nominated for seven primetime Emmy Awards, including Best Original Song for "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit."...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth12 August 1975
CityShaker Heights, OH
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We sort of look at our years at 'Letterman' as comedy grad school. I don't mind seeing jokes and hearing the laugh track because that was our bread and butter for a long time, just making an audience laugh ... There's no better feeling than having a crowd there and hearing a laugh.
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But they've been fearless about it. There hasn't been a moment of doubt or a suggestion to make it more traditional. We have no 'indignant writer' stories to tell.
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But for us it was three years ago. We still miss it. We love New York so much.
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It's a show about the craziest nights you remember from your youth, the crazy nights you had in your 20s.
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I went through periods where you're just sort of writing things that are supposed to be funny and things that look like a sitcom. Now we're writing about real life and things that we care about. That's one of the things that a lot of these new shows have in common, like Everybody Hates Chris -- he's writing about his life.