Martini Shot

The big difference between sampling – where music producers reuse someone else's hook and borrowing, which is what comedy writers do to each others' material.

Rob solves the problem of television network programming

Meerkat is the latest amazingly disruptive and revolutionary app that manages to, basically, recreate 1950's live television.

The last place that might believe the characters from the show Friends could afford that apartment -- North Korea.

Next time Rob heads into in a pitch meeting and someone asks if they can get him something to drink, he's going to say yes.

What you do when you suddenly wonder what your life is all about. You do what studios do when they're making an expensive movie and they don't like the ending. They stop production and figure it out.

The new and exciting directions the entertainment business is going in – a more disruptive and entrepreneurial way of doing business. And all of those words mean only one thing: the writer's not getting paid.

Getting fired, firing someone, and Rob's personal choice, just passive-aggressively ignoring them until they stop appearing in his line of sight.

Rob's totally on fleek. And if you have to ask what that means, don't bother.  No one will be saying it in a week or so.

Sometimes really excellent actors have a hard time knowing the difference between things that happened to them in real life and on screen. News anchors, too. Not unrelated.

What the producers of the movie Selma do to historical fact as "giving history a little face lift and tummy tuck."

The worst way to sell someone on anything is to assume that they need it. No one wants to hear that.

A change of venue – and a change in climate – can boost your creativity. It can, but it can also freeze your hair.

What do you do when you want to take charge but don’t know, exactly, what you’re talking about?

Rob rings in the new year with a To Don't list, which is like a To Do list -- but the opposite.

Rob tell you the four words you need to have a happy and safe 2015.  Four words that can save you a lot of trouble.

Jay Z and Beyonce and the heirs to the British throne watch basketball because, as we know, all famous people know each other.

Rob tries to be grateful for the man, Bill Cosby, who reinvigorated the television comedy business and separate his accomplishments from his actions.  It doesn't work very well. 

Where will you be this Saturday and Sunday?

Rob gets some bad news in the worst way possible: directly, honestly, and not from his agent.