Martini Shot

Rob sends a shout out to the bankrupt Relativity Media company. Because a successful movie and an unsuccessful movie both employ the same number of people, so more movies, more better.

The TV business is like the oil business -- we keep pumping shows out of the ground until there're just too many shows and the price collapses. We need a show business OPEC.

It's nice to have options.  This is LA, after all. Things fall apart. Projects collapse. People flake.

What primates do when they present themselves to each other.  It's what we do around here, when we pitch.

Rob turns into the dark anti-hero he's always wanted to be.

On dating and television programming, which are a lot more alike than you'd think, both being complicated, expensive, and futile.

Going back to a time when Dynasty and Laverne and Shirley were hit TV shows, now known as Empire and Broad City.

With no original material, Rob does everybody else does: he steals from Twitter.

Getting ordered around town by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who turns out to know the very best traffic shortcuts.

Every entertainment executive should work at the Olive Garden for a day. Not exactly, but close.

Trying to do the impossible: to enter the gates of a studio and park for a meeting when it's the wrong studio and still maintain a small amount of personal dignity.

What happens in Rob's brain when a pitch meeting goes well, which is that it stops working and says strange, nonsensical things.

Wading into the recent controversy about what Jerry Seinfeld said about college kids. That they're insufferable killjoys.

Explaining why a movie won't work at the box office, right after it hasn't worked at the box office.

Using Evernote to prove that the entertainment business is about to get very crazy and very good, especially for writers. This is not a scientific conclusion.

Breaking the tribal rule that binds all Hollywood writers together, Rob gives credit to a development executive.

Rob takes a story with the worst and most dysfunctional moral ever, then kind of twists it so it comes out okay.

Sometimes when the star makes a demand you give in, sometimes you don’t.

Belated advice to Trevor Noah, and anyone else who suddenly goes from Internet famous to actually famous.

Furious Seven, Coca-Cola, and how hard it is to change people's favorite things just enough.