Ken Levine's Guilty Pleasures

About this episode

Ken Levine discusses his new play 'Guilty Pleasures' and his extensive career in entertainment.

Emmy-winning screenwriter, the divine Ken Levine, was today’s guilty, not guilty pleasure. Rushing off for a next-to-last dress rehearsal before tomorrow’s sole preview, we got a good, healthy dose of the funny, as Ken is wont to do. Guilty Pleasures, his 10th published full-length play, opens this Friday at the Westchester Theatre in Los Angeles for a four-week run. An adult entertainment, no, not that kind, the show’s disclaimer says, “Please note this play is intended for mature audiences, as it contains strong language and sexual content.” Ken adds, no nudity, but I know from experience it’ll be loaded with laughs. Bonus, my pal, Marshall McCabe, is one of the four stars. One of the most successful humans I know, cross-genre, Ken is a multi-award-winning writer of such shows as Cheers, MASH, Frasier, The Simpsons, and Wings. He’s directed over 60 TV episodes and has co-written the movie, VOLUNTEERS, starring Tom Hanks and John Candy; he’s been a radio DJ and the play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, and San Diego Padres. Ken’s hosted Dodger Talk for eight seasons, has hosted his own successful podcast, and wrote one of the 25 BEST blogs, as says Time…

People in this episode

Host: Vicki Abelson

Guest: Ken Levine

Topics covered

• theater
• screenwriting
• comedy
• playwriting
• entertainment

Keywords

• Ken Levine
• Guilty Pleasures
• theater
• screenwriter
• comedy
• play
• entertainment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Westchester Theatre, New Yorker Magazine

Books & works: Guilty Pleasures, Cheers, MASH, Frasier, The Simpsons, Wings, VOLUNTEERS

Places: Prague, Los Angeles

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