Ben Kronengold & Rebecca Shaw (The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, McSweeneys)
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My two guests today are Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, a writing team for the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. They’ve also written stuff for McSweeney’s and The New Yorker. We talk about how the two met in college and became a writing team and their viral speech before Hillary Clinton spoke at their graduation. Ben and Rebecca have a really interesting experience breaking into the industry because they got to navigate meetings and packets as a team. We also talk a lot about their time at Fallon, some of their favorite sketches,  the celebrities and politicians they got to work with, and how quarantine affected production. You can follow Ben on twitter at @benkgold and you can follow Rebecca on twitter at @RebeccaBShaw. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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