About this episode

Susanna Fogel and David Iserson discuss their collaboration on Ponies and various themes in comedy and culture.

Ponies creators Susanna Fogel and David Iserson ( The Spy Who Dumped Me ) discuss how they collaborate, the long road to Ponies , comedy with stakes, American culture through a funhouse mirror, genre as a way of writing about relationships and politics, why pitching is a scam, and more. THE WRITERS PANEL IS A COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION. Follow and support the show by subscribing to Ben Blacker's newsletter, Re:Writing , where you'll also get weekly advice from the thousands of writers he's interviewed over the years, as well as access to exclusive live Q&As, meet-ups, and more: benblacker.substack.com SOCIALS: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/benblacker.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bablacker/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Ben Blacker

Guests: Susanna Fogel, David Iserson

Topics covered

• collaboration
• comedy
• American culture
• relationships
• politics
• pitching

Keywords

• Ponies
• comedy with stakes
• American culture
• genre
• pitching
• relationships
• politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: THE WRITERS PANEL, benblacker.substack.com, Acast

Books & works: The Spy Who Dumped Me

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