Awful Announcing Podcast

Michael Schur, best known on the internet as Ken Tremendous, is the guest on this special Christmas-week edition of the Awful Announcing podcast.Schur and Dan Levy spend a good 70 minutes—good in terms of length and, hopefully, quality—talking all about his career as a television writer and producer for Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Parks and Recreation, going back to his days at The Office and SNL as well, and how all that comedy writing compares to what made him internet famous a dozen or so years back: Fire Joe Morgan.Here is a quick rundown of most of what we discuss during the conversation. -Talmudic Law and the notion of being "half-Jewish"-Jews for Jedis-Christmas with Regis Philbin-Filming holiday episodes in October (and Halloween episodes in August)-The legacy of television comedy, and how that's changed from watching re-runs of Gilligan's Island in the '80s to now-Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci and John Smoltz-NFL, Star Wars, DraftKings and the Parks & Rec future of seven companies running the world-An