Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart
Lawrence Simon "Larry" Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the record-breaking hit TV show M*A*S*H...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 February 1928
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
writing play two
I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.
campaign fulfilling talk
Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.
credit people terribly
A lot of people credit him with being terribly influential in their careers,
bitter states jokes
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
optimist recovering
I'm a recovering optimist.
today television audience
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
new-york war rain
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.
funny weapons television
Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
nature burning amazon
The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.
style
Your style is formed by what you can't do.
age way hollywood
The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
doe
One does not have humor. It has you.
art college people
I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
divorce causes chiefs
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.