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For Comedy Writers, Saying Goodbye Can Be Tough

Deadline · August 21, 2026 at 5:32 PM

For Comedy Writers, Saying Goodbye Can Be Tough

Saying goodbye is never easy, particularly if you’ve played a character for over 20 years, however intermittently.

Lisa Kudrow knows this well, after her and Michael Patrick King, the co-creators of HBO’s The Comeback, said farewell to Valerie Cherish, a character that started at The Groundlings and was first turned into a comedy series in […]

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For Comedy Writers, Saying Goodbye Can Be Tough

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