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Dead Pilots Society
In Dead Pilots Society, scripts that were developed by studios and networks but were never produced are given the table reads they deserve. Starring actors you know and love from television and film, a live audience, and a good time in which no one gets notes, no one is fired, and everyone laughs. Presented by Andrew Reich (Friends; Worst Week) Ben Blacker (The Writers Panel podcast; co-creator, Thrilling Adventure Hour), and Noah Findling (The New York Times, Comedy Central).
Episodes
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Episode 211: Alex Herschlag Interview
Episode 211: Alex Herschlag Interview This month’s after show features Andrew in conversation with Alex Herschlag, the writer behind our latest pilot Life of…
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Episode 210: Life of the Party by Alex Herschlag
Episode 210: Life of the Party by Alex Herschlag Dead Pilots Society is back this month with Life of the Party, a multi-camera workplace comedy from writer…
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Episode 209: Michael Colton and John Aboud Interview
Episode 209: Michael Colton and John Aboud Interview As we continue to celebrate ten years of Dead Pilots Society, we bring you this month’s after show with…
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Episode 208: Weekly World News by Michael Colton and John Aboud
Episode 208: Weekly World News by Michael Colton and John Aboud Dead Pilots Society celebrates 10 years with Weekly World News, a comedy pilot from Michael…
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Episode 207: Claudia Lonow Interview
Episode 207: Claudia Lonow Interview Here is the after show for Fan Girl, featuring Andrew's interview with Claudia Lonow. Claudia has created four television…
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Episode 206: Fan Girl by Claudia Lonow
Episode 206: Fan Girl by Claudia Lonow This month, Dead Pilots Society presents Fan Girl by Claudia Lonow, a returning guest who previously appeared on the…
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Episode 205: Kathryn Borel Jr Interview
Episode 205: Kathryn Borel Jr Interview This month's aftershow features a conversation with writer Kathryn Borel Jr., whose ambitious adaptation of On the Road…
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Episode 204: On The Road by Kathryn Borel Jr
Episode 204: On The Road by Kathryn Borel Jr This month's dead pilot is On the Road, Kathryn Borel Jr.'s daring reimagining of Jack Kerouac's iconic novel…
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Episode 203: Joel Kim Booster Interview
Episode 203: Joel Kim Booster Interview This is the aftershow for Here, After, featuring a conversation with writer, actor, and comedian Joel Kim Booster. Joel…
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Episode 202: Here, After by Joel Kim Booster
Episode 202: Here, After by Joel Kim Booster This month, Dead Pilots Society welcomes back writer, actor, and comedian Joel Kim Booster, whose pilot Birthright…
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Episode 201: Christian Duguay Interview
Episode 201: Christian Duguay Interview This is the After Show for Valley Heat, featuring Andrew’s interview with creator Christian Duguay. A longtime admirer…
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Episode 200: Valley Heat by Christian Duguay
Episode 200: Valley Heat by Christian Duguay This month marks the 200th episode of Dead Pilots Society, which feels like a real milestone for a show that…
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Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 1
Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 1 As a special bonus for MaxFunDrive 2026, we bring you the top five funniest…
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Episode 199: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas Interview Part Two
Episode 199: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas Interview Part Two This is the After Show for Gimme Five, featuring part two of Andrew’s conversation with Carter…
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Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 2
Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 2 As a special bonus for MaxFunDrive 2026, we bring you the top five funniest…
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Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 3
Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 3 As a special bonus for MaxFunDrive 2026, we bring you the top five funniest…
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Episode 198: Gimme Five by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
Episode 198: Gimme Five by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas This month’s second dead pilot from Carter Bays and Craig Thomas is Gimme Five. Best known as the…
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Episode 197: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas Interview
Episode 197: Carter Bays and Craig Thomas Interview This is the After Show for New York Mythological, featuring Andrew’s conversation with Carter Bays and…
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Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 4
Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 4 As a special bonus for MaxFunDrive 2026, we bring you the top five funniest…
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Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 5
Bonus: Top Five Funniest Openings in Dead Pilots Society History - Number 5 As a special bonus for MaxFunDrive 2026, we bring you the top five funniest…
Dead Pilots SocietyCasters on Casters: Ben Blacker, Alonso Duralde, and Hal Lublin
It's MaxFunDrive. And here, for the first time, we give you an exclusive look (well, listen) at the craft of podcasting: presenting Casters on Casters. In this…
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Episode 196: New York Mythological by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas
Episode 196: New York Mythological by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas This month’s dead pilot, kicking off the 2026 MaxFunDrive, is New York Mythological, written…
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Episode 195: Georgia Pritchett Interview
Episode 195: Georgia Pritchett Interview This After Show features Andrew’s interview with Emmy and WGA Award–winning writer Georgia Pritchett, the writer of…
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Episode 194: Bump by Georgia Pritchett
Episode 194: Bump by Georgia Pritchett This month’s dead pilot is Bump, written by Emmy and WGA Award–winning writer Georgia Pritchett. Georgia is widely known…
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Episode 193: Ginger Gonzaga Interview
Episode 193: Ginger Gonzaga Interview This is the After Show for Yellow, featuring Andrew’s conversation with writer and actor Ginger Gonzaga. Many listeners…
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Episode 192: Yellow Written by Ginger Gonzaga
Episode 192: Yellow Written by Ginger Gonzaga This month’s live episode features Yellow, a pilot written by Ginger Gonzaga. Most people know Ginger from her…
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Episode 191: Text Thread Dead Pilot Summit
Episode 191: Text Thread Dead Pilot Summit This special episode of Dead Pilots Society brings together the writers behind the last two pilots for a sort of…
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Episode 190: Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman Interview
Episode 190: Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman Interview This week’s After Show features Andrew’s conversation with Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller, writers of…
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Episode 189: The Thread Written By Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman
Episode 189: The Thread Written By Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman This month’s episode features The Thread, written by Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman, the…
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Episode 188: Aaron Brownstein & Simon Ganz Interview
Episode 188: Aaron Brownstein & Simon Ganz Interview In this After Show Andrew talks with writing partners Aaron Brownstein and Simon Ganz about their long…
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Episode 187: Guy Text Written by Aaron Brownstein & Simon Ganz
Episode 187: Guy Text Written by Aaron Brownstein & Simon Ganz This month’s dead pilot is Guy Text, written by Aaron Brownstein and Simon Ganz, whose credits…
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Episode 186: Lisa Muse Bryant Interview
Episode 186: Lisa Muse Bryant Interview This month’s After Show features Andrew’s conversation with Lisa Muse Bryant, the powerhouse behind our latest dead…
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Episode 185: Dream Written by Lisa Muse Bryant
Episode 185: Dream Written by Lisa Muse Bryant This month’s Dead Pilots Society features Dream, a musical comedy pilot from Lisa Muse Bryant, whose work…
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Episode 184: Jim Brandon & Brian Singleton Interview
Episode 184: Jim Brandon & Brian Singleton Interview Welcome to this month’s after-show interview with Brian Singleton and Jim Brandon. You heard their…
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Episode 183: Humans of the Americas Written by Jim Brandon & Brian Singleton
Episode 183: Humans of the Americas Written by Jim Brandon & Brian Singleton This month’s dead pilot is Humans of the Americas by Jim Brandon and Brian…
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Episode 182: David S. Rosenthal Interview
Episode 182: David S. Rosenthal Interview In this after show for The Cheap Seats, Andrew sits down with writer David S. Rosenthal, whose career spans some of…
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Episode 181: The Cheap Seats Written by David S. Rosenthal
Episode 181: The Cheap Seats Written by David S. Rosenthal This month on Dead Pilots Society we have The Cheap Seats by David S. Rosenthal, a veteran…
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Episode 180: Gracie Glassmeyer Interview
Episode 180: Gracie Glassmeyer Interview This after-show episode dives deeper into Here She Lies with its creator, Gracie Glassmeyer. If you heard the table…
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Episode 179: Here She Lies Written by Gracie Glassmeyer
Episode 179: Here She Lies Written by Gracie Glassmeyer Welcome to Dead Pilots Society, the podcast that takes comedy pilots from A-list writers that were sold…
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Episode 178: Chris Marcil & Sam Johnson Interview (Blessed and Highly Favored, NewsRadio, Beavis and Butt-Head)
Episode 178: Chris Marcil & Sam Johnson Interview (Blessed and Highly Favored, NewsRadio, Beavis and Butt-Head) In this after-show interview, Andrew sits down…
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Episode 177: Blessed and Highly Favored by Chris Marcil & Sam Johnson - Live from the Elysian Theater
Episode 177: Blessed and Highly Favored by Chris Marcil & Sam Johnson - Live from the Elysian Theater We have such a great dead pilot for you this month. It's…
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Episode 176: Ilana Peña (Diary of a Future President) and Anne Sundell (writer and comedian) Interview
Episode 176: Ilana Peña (Diary of a Future President) and Anne Sundell (writer and comedian) Interview In this month’s after-show interview, Andrew chats with…
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Episode 175: How To Get Over Bryan Byers Written by Ilana Peña & Anne Sundell
Episode 175: How To Get Over Bryan Byers Written by Ilana Peña & Anne Sundell (Recorded Live at the Elysian Theater) This month on Dead Pilots Society, we’re…
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Episode 174: Austen Earl Interview (Letters to Beyoncé, Up All Night, The Millers, Happy Together)
Episode 174: Austen Earl Interview (Letters to Beyoncé, Up All Night, The Millers, Happy Together) In this after-show interview, Andrew talks with…
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Episode 173: Letters to Beyoncé written by Austen Earl (Up All Night, The Millers, Happy Together)
Episode 173: Letters to Beyoncé written by Austin Earl (Up All Night, The Millers, Happy Together) In this episode of Dead Pilots Society, we bring you a…
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Episode 172: Lauren Herstik Interview (American Vandal, Pearson)
In this after-show episode of Dead Pilot Society, we're joined by writer Lauren Herstik, who brought us Camp Friends — a pilot that's had more lives (and…
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Episode 171: Camp Friends Written by Lauren Herstik (American Vandal, Pearson)
This month, we have a fantastic dead pilot, Camp Friends, written by Lauren Herstik. You may know Lauren as a writer on American Vandal and Pearson. Camp…
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Episode 170: Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero Interview (Another Period)
This is the After Show episode for Buffalo Tens featuring Andrew’s interview with Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero (Another Period). It’s also our last…
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Episode: 169: Buffalo Tens Episode 2 by Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero (Another Period)
MaxFunDrive 2025 continues with a second episode of Buffalo Tens from Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero (Another Period). Fox liked this show about two…
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Episode 168: Buffalo Tens Episode 1 by Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero (Another Period)
You can support Dead Pilots Society and get access to all of our bonus content, and the bonus content from every other Maximum Fun show, by becoming a member…
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Episode 167: John Enbom Interview(Party Down, Veronica Mars)
We have another live show coming up soon. It’s on Sunday March 16th at 2:00 and at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles, and we will be reading not one but two…
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Episode 166: Rich Dan Poor Dan written by John Enbom (Party Down, Veronica Mars))
John also wrote on Veronica Mars, iZombie, and Benched. This pilot has that unique Enbom touch. Rich Dan, Poor Dan was recorded live in front of an audience at…
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Episode 165: Joe Port and Joe Wiseman Interview Rerun (Ghosts, The Office, New Girl)(Eternally Yours Aftershow)
In this interview we talk about Joe and Joe’s first show business jobs, including the insane, no-longer existent job of Night PA, delivering scripts in the wee…
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Episode 164: Eternally Yours written by Joe Port & Joe Wiseman (Ghosts, The Office, New Girl)
Things have been a little tough in Los Angeles this month, so we are bringing you our first ever Dead Pilots Society Rerun. This is one of our all-time…
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Episode 163: Amy Reed (The Diary of a Future President) & Brendan Scannell (Bonding) Interview (The 14th Floor After Show)
A happy holidays to you! Hopefully you're wearing that Dead Pilots Society shirt you bought for yourself as a gift while listening to this episode! This is our…
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Episode 162: The 14th Floor written by Amy Reed (The Diary of a Future President) & Brendan Scannell (Bonding)
It's the end of the year and we have a very special dead pilot for you! This is The 14th Floor written by Amy Reed (The Diary of a Future President) & Brendan…
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Episode 161: Bill Callahan Interview (Massholes After Show)
Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode, Andrew interviews Bill Callahan about his pilot Massholes. Bill has an impressive résumé, having worked on Spin City, 8…
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Episode 160: Massholes written by Bill Callahan (Scrubs, Spin City)
This month's pilot is Massholes. It was set up at ABC and written by Bill Callahan (Scrubs, Spin City). Bill is a veteran comedy writer who's worked on so many…
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Episode 159: Al Madrigal & Chris Harris Interview (Mr. Macho After show)
Welcome to the after-show for Mr. Macho! Andrew and Al recount their unusual first meeting during a casting session for a show that came together under…
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Episode 158: Mr. Macho written by Al Madrigal (The Daily Show, Lopez vs. Lopez, Night School)
Our featured dead pilot this month is Mr. Macho, written by Al Madrigal. You might know Al from his stand-up, his time on The Daily Show, or his many TV and…