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‘The Simpsons’ Shut Down Production So Writers Could Watch Bob Newhart Record Krusty Tribute

Bob Newhart, who passed away this week at the age of 94, once said comedians help people get past pain by speaking at memorial services. “It’s not easy speaking at a funeral. I’ve done it many times,” he wrote in his memoir, I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny. “On The Simpsons, I spoke at Krusty the Clown’s funeral.”

Donald Glover Says ‘SNL’ and ‘30 Rock’ Were Ruled By Fear

Don’t get Donald Glover wrong — he had a great experience writing for 30 Rock. But when it came time to put together his own writers’ room for Atlanta, he said on this week’s episode of Hot Ones, “one thing at 30 Rock that I didn’t want as much of — because I feel like it was a thing from SNL — was fear.” 

A writers’ room on a comedy show is inherently a scary place, Glover explained. He laughed as he remembered a seemingly innocuous moment from his early sitcom experience.

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