136 - SHELLY GOLDSTEIN - WRITER/PERFORMER/LYRICIST/ COMEDIAN/SINGER...FROM WORKING WITH STEVE MARTIN AND STEPHEN COLBERT...TO YOKO ONO AND GARRY MARSHALL..‪.‬ CUZ I HAVE TO...when living your dream is the only option - with JULIE SLATER and JASON FRIDAY.

Hosts Julie Slater and Jason Friday chat with Shelly Goldstein - a writer-performer-rock & roll historian-lyricist-comedian-singer who has written for every genre of TV, film and stage in the US and UK. Recent shows she's written include the Emmy winning PBS Musical special, Chicago Voices and Norman Lear's Sentinel Awards. She has written for such artists as Lily Tomlin, Steve Martin, Stephen Colbert, Sharon Stone, Jay Leno & Yoko Ono and more...


Julie and Shelly know each other from her old radio station 100.3 The Sound in LA - an old classic rock station where Julie and Shelly met through a special group of listeners...Shelly is the winner of the New Yorker caption contest...how she started in musical comedy in Chicago...wrote her first play when she was 7...how all of this was just what she was doing - she never had to think about it...how she almost got a part in the very first touring group of Grease, but she was too young...how people know what they want to do - but sometimes messages from family or society tell you no...how AI is going to replace us all...how Shelly's parents were very supportive of her creative dreams...how her sister is completely different - a math genius/lawyer...how she went to school during a time when art/drama/band practice/choir wasn't taken for granted like it is now...books being removed from libraries...


Shelly tells the story of hanging out at Second City, volunteering at theatres in Chicago...she was around SNL people, John Malcovich, Laurie Metcaff...how she went to Northwestern...her hometown of Evanston, IL...Julie's brother's restaurant there called Oceanique...how screenwriter Garry Marshall took her under his wing...her feminist comedy show called Broadside...which ran for two years...Gary saw it and told her she was ready to move to LA (when she was 20 years old) to start working at Paramount with him...how she lectures at Universities...putting on a show just so the head of a network could see her pilot and how she sold it to him...


We talk about how everyone has a voice - WRITE...how there is one thing Shelly hasn't exactly done - stand up comedy...how she is inching towards that...and might do before the end of the year...the one thing Shelly wants to do in life - is to make you laugh...appreciating Ted Lasso...what she wrote for Sharon Stone...how smart and funny Sharon is...how she works on non televised scripts, including working with Jay Leno...how someone on a late night show was stealing her jokes from Facebook...how she wrote for Stephen Colbert - she said it was as close to heaven as it can be...Shelly only believes in being nice and easy to work with...how it was being a women comedy writer n the 80s and 90s...a documentary called The Girl in the Room - which hasn't been put out - about women writers...befriending another women writer...Beth Armogida...how things are getting better out there for women righters...the input a creator of a series gets in future episodes...the role of a showrunner on a series...how TV is more of a writer's medium than film...the joy of hearing a great actor read something you've written...how she likes collaboration - and how show business shouldn't be a narcissistic thing - even though it often is....and all about the Writer's Strike....


IT'S 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE...find out one of her at-the-ready bar jokes...the game Marry, F, Kill...Robert Plant, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney...if she could live in the world of one TV show, which would it be...the last two things she bought on Amazon...and what her epitaph will be....


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