On Working In The Creative Industries...

(Sorry for embedding this from Daum, and the inevitable confusion that will cause, but two things: first, I’m a shareholder, so fucking take your Korean YouTube and like it, and second, the Paley Center, for reasons known only to them, removed this talk from YouTube, but left it on Daum. *shrug*)

When I give my talks at colleges or whatever, someone always, 100% of the time, asks this exact same question, and I used to give a similar, albeit less well-formed, answer to what Louis CK gives here. I first saw this a couple years ago, and ever since, I’ve been giving more or less this exact answer, lifted wholesale.

Every word of his answer is absolutely true and perfect, for any of the creative industries. If you’re of the n00b persuasion, and are thinking of coming in to this business, you should memorize his answer, and make it your holy scripture. If you’re attending one of my talks or booking me for same, or planning on meeting me in real life and asking me this question, prepare yourself to hear this more or less verbatim.

(In point of fact, the entire talk is illuminating, and 55 minutes well-spent; a lot of inside baseball that is television-specific, but most of it translates to our business quite well.)