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What do you do when you are five minutes into writing a 20-minute film and realize that your joke has run its course? You figure out a way to write yourself out of the corner and bust through the cliché. No stranger to Getting Work To Work, gough is an Australian filmmaker on the show to share his latest work: The Melanie Holden Interview, a new episode in his long-running mock interview series. In this conversation, gough shares the funny qualities of truth, the comedy found in drama, how his characters speak to him while writing, the best character names ever, movies that hold up, comedians making him laugh, and most importantly, conspiracy theories. He even shares a public service announcement about why lying is wrong.

Past Interviews with gough:

• Interview with gough (GWTW129)
• “Catching Up” with gough (GWTW155)
• Fun Times with gough (GWTW212)
• “Bigger & Better” with gough (GWTW277)
• “Long Takes & Hawaiian Shirts” with gough (GWTW384)
• “The Art of Pivoting” with gough (GWTW404)

Show Links

• Beernuts Productions
• Beernuts Productions TV Chat Show
• The Melanie Holden Interview on BeernutsProductions.com
• The Graham Norton Show
• The Fast Show
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Reunited Apart with Josh Gad
• Casino (1995)
• Demolition Man (1993)
• “Stallone charged with taking banned hormone in Australia” | The Guardian
• Phan Thi Kim Phuc
• Across the Universe (2007)
• Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
• The Twelfth Man (Billy Birmingham)
• Bruce McAvaney
• Thank You for Smoking (2005)
• Dave Chappelle
• Hannah Gadsby
• Vincent van Gogh
• “Michelangelo’s Assistants in the Sistine Ceiling”
• Dan Brown
• Pornography – An Inside Look on BeernutsProductions.com
• Penn & Teller
• Photo by Jean Carlo Emer on Unsplash
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