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While many other former writers for the Lampoon, a social club which occasionally publishes parodies, have gone on to write for such shows as "The David Letterman Show" and "Saturday Night Live", Borowitz is the first to write and produce a show himself...
...Borowitz said the idea for the show came when executive producers of "Dreams" John Peters and Peter Guber, who produced the hit movie "Flash Dance," told him they wanted a situation comedy with a blue-collar background and a lot of music...
...feel really lucky," said Borowitz of his recent success, adding that out of 1000 entries, CBS bought the five most promising scripts...
Before working on "Dreams." Borowitz had been writing scripts for "Archie Bunker's Place," and for "Square Pegs," both prime time series...
Norman Lear hired Borowitz for CBS after the producer met him his senior year at a Lampoon function. "I think it was a gut reaction," said Borowitz of Lear's job offer...