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Okay, yesterday I posted that I had:

3,700 search results on Google

Today, just one day later I have:

8,090 search results on Google

Damn! And it used to be not too long ago the day that you could find this geeky post.

Blogcritics.com interviews Mark Treitel

Blogcritics.org which gets over 50,000 hits a day, interviewed me.

Interview: Situation: Comedy Star and The Sperm Donor Co-Creator Mark Treitel

Posted by Eric Berlin on August 30, 2005 06:14 PM

For much of the spring, I heralded Bravo's Project Greenlight as the best show on television. Situation: Comedy, its successor of sorts, comes very close to that lofty apogee. Created by Sean Hayes of Will & Grace fame and Todd Milliner, Situation: Comedy goes behind the scenes to examine the fun and terror of creating a sitcom pilot.

Mark Treitel and his longtime writing partner Shoe Schuster, co-creators of The Sperm Donor, were selected from over 10,000 applicants to be filmed during the process of writing, re-writing, getting castigated during States of the Union, and occasionally helping to help out with casting, set design, and post-production. To up the ante even further, Treitel and Schuster face off against another team of aspiring sitcom writers (David Lampson and Andrew Leeds, co-creators of Stephen's Life). The winning team will receive a cash prize, talent agents, and a theoretical shot at sitcom immortality.

I spoke with Mark about the pressures of going through the reality show wringer while trying to pound out a top-notch sitcom pilot under a tight deadline. We also found time to get into such topics as the makings of a great sitcom, the real reality of reality shows, and a hypothetical Happy Days of the future.

Eric Berlin: What was being on a reality show like, and how did you feel about the editing process later on while watching yourself on the television?

Mark Treitel: [Laughs] For everyone watching reality shows, I would point to the fact that the WGA [Writers Guild of America] this week is basically suing reality show producers, saying there are "reality writers."
You have to know what you're in for going in. My writing partner Shoe Schuster and I are actually avid reality fans, so we were ready to expect anything. When we came in to pitch to Stan and Max [Executive Producers Stan Zimmerman and Maxine Lapiduss] that first day, which you see on Episode One, Shoe and I were expecting anything, like there might be little kids sitting there and we would have to pitch to them like they were the NBC network executives.
You just don't know. And you sign away everything, like this giant ironclad contract that basically signs away all of your rights.

Click here for the full aritcle by Eric Berlin.

MarkTreitel.com now featured on Typepad.com

I'm truly honored to be featured on www.typepad.com.

I couldn't have done this site and gotten so many viewers without Typepad.

Within in minutes of being featured, my web traffic doubled.

Almost as good as having 3,700 search results on Google and 3,190 on Yahoo.

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I was profiled today by Tufts University.

Comedy Quest

Tufts graduate and comedy writer Mark Treitel is close to realizing his decade-long goal of having his own sitcom.

Medford/Somerville, Mass. [08.29.05] For Tufts graduate Mark Treitel, the situation is getting serious. The “Situation: Comedy,” that is.

The aspiring comedy writer’s script has made it to the final round of competition on Bravo’s new “Situation: Comedy” reality show, which chronicles the making of a sitcom and gives amateur writers a chance launch their Hollywood careers by creating a comedy pilot from start to finish.

Watch Sperm Donor on Bittorent now

Thanks to Firefox566 for putting up Sperm Donor on BitTorrent if you can't use the Aol software.

Here's what he said to do:

For those of you who have experienced difficulties with AOL's video player (or simply wish to download the pilots and save them to your computer), I've made them available via BitTorrent.

This requires the BitTorrent software of your choice (available at no cost for every major operating system), and free membership with TVTorrents.com (with which I'm not affiliated):
http://www.tvtorrents.com/signup.do

If you don't wish to give your real e-mail address, just use a throwaway address from here:
http://www.dodgeit.com/

Then, after logging in to the TVTorrents site, navigate to the following URLs:

http://snurl.com/sperm_donor_pilot
http://snurl.com/stephens_life_pilot

Enjoy! :)

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Funniest caption wins.

Yet Another Sperm Donor Reality Show

Obviously Sperm Donor is in the zeitgeist.

If you want more reality shows about Sperm Donors there's a new reality show about a woman searching for potential sperm donors.

I imagine all shows will soon be about sperm donors.

I was only sleeping... (WE HAVE A WINNAH!)

Funniest caption wins a prize. I pick a winner on Friday, August 26, 6 PM PST.

Congrats to Marc on his winning entry:

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