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A show or movie where the main cast also serve as the writers of the piece. Common in Sketch Comedy, as well as Video Review Shows and Internet Abridged Series due to their one-man-show nature. The trope can crop up in other types of show as well; it's especially common in Sit Coms, as sitcom writers often have backgrounds in performance (specifically stand-up and/or sketch comedy) and are susceptible to being called upon to act. When actors get their first writing credit on series they're already starring in, that's Written by Cast Member. |
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Pretty much anything on Channel Awesome. | |
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Spaced was created and written by its leads, Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes. | |
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In MAD's parody of Animal House, when Dean Wormer threatens the Deltas, one remarks they have more power than he does because some of them are writers of the movie. | |
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The Venture Bros. has a lot of this: writer/creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer spend a lot of time talking to themselves; between them they voice something like twelve characters. | |
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At Last the 1948 Show: four of the five main performers wrote it. | |
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Steve Smith, who portrayed the title character of The Red Green Show, also co-wrote every episode. He often worked with Rick Green (who played Bill), and in later seasons, Peter Wildman (Buzz Sherwood) and Bob Bainborough (Dalton) contributed as well. | |
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The Goodies: two of the three main performers wrote it. | |
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The Mighty Boosh is written by its stars, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, with additional material from Rich Fulcher. | |
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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant wrote and starred in The Office (UK) and Extras. The Office (US) also qualifies, as it includes three writers as cast members (Toby, Kelly, and Ryan), and two others have had smaller cameos. Steve Carell has also written episodes. |
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The Office (US) also qualifies, as it includes three writers as cast members (Toby, Kelly, and Ryan), and two others have had smaller cameos. Steve Carell has also written episodes. | |
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30 Rock is a show about writers and producers, where Tina Fey plays her own writer/producer character while writing and producing the show. Scott Adsit (who plays Pete Hornberger) and John Lutz (who plays J. D. Lutz) are also comedy writers. | |
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Radio Active and KYTV were so full of writers that Helen Atkinson-Wood was the only one who didn't chip in on that front. | |
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Jack Mercer wrote for many Popeye cartoons as well as voicing not only the title character but many incidental voices, right through the 1978 Hanna-Barbera series. He did so with many of the Paramount stable. He was also an in-betweener at Paramount. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 cast parts almost entirely out of the production staff, and primarily from the writers, to the extent that almost every bit part ever was played by someone who was employed to do something at Best Brains before they appeared on the show. All of the replacement actors for the main characters also came from the crew, chiefly the writing staff. It was that kind of show. |
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Puzzle Clubhouse has a lot of this — it's a series of episodic games created on a fast-paced schedule (a new game releases on the first of each month), and having all the voice actors on site makes for faster iteration and development. The majority of characters are voiced by Schell Games developers (who also write the episodes, design the games, create the artwork, etc). | |
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Svengoolie writes pretty much all his own stuff. | |
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The original Ghostbusters duology was written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. | |
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Bill Scott, co-creator and head writer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, shouldered the burden of roughly half the lead voice cast, playing Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody, and Dudley Do-Right, among others. | |
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Saturday Night Live, particularly in the first five years (1975-1980) due to the relatively small cast (and especially in the 1979-1980 season, when Lorne Michaels was looking for replacement actors for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who left after season four), though the tradition of having SNL writers as either cast members or bit players continues to this day. | |
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Little Britain | |
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Fawlty Towers starred and was written by John Cleese and his then-wife Connie Booth. | |
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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, being where all the Goodies and one of the Pythons (John Cleese) started (other Pythons wrote for it but didn't perform). Jo Kendell was also a writer, in particular coming up with the "John and Mary" sketches. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus was "Conceived, Written and Performed by" Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. (Terry Gilliam was added to the list in the second series.) | |
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The League of Gentlemen has its writing credit read "The Cast and Jeremy Dyson", and it's roughly that literal—beyond crowd scenes, children, and the occasional woman, you'd be hard-pressed to find a single character not played by series writers Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton or Reece Shearsmith. | |
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Same thing with South Park, but more so. Trey Parker and Matt Stone voice pretty much anyone who's not Chef or a woman (though Trey Parker voiced Ms. Choksondik, as well as a one-time female character — the S'mores Schnapps lady — in "The Red Badge of Gayness." Mary Kay Bergman was meant to voice her, but had to be replaced following her death). | |
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Casino Royale (1967) falls into this category - largely because the actual script was such a mess that producers had to get the cast (who included experience writers such as John Huston, Orson Welles and Woody Allen) to try and make some sense of it. Peter Sellers, the nominal star, also wrote a lot of his own material. | |
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Hello Cheeky: three of the four main performers wrote it. | |
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Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, created by the aforementioned Parker Simmons, features a main cast primarily comprised of crew members and employees at Titmouse. Creator Parker Simmons voices Mao Mao, King Snugglemane, and Ratarang, as well as several minor characters. Storyboard artist Griffith Kimmins voices Badgerclops as well as Pinky, Kevin, and Chester. Lika Leong, the production manager, voices Adorabat. |
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Several OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes characters are voiced by creator and head writer Ian Jones-Quartey. They include Radicles, Darrell, Gregg, Crinkly Wrinkly, and Cookie Man. Likewise, storyboard artist Parker Simmons voices several recurring or one-off characters; his roles include Fish Dude, Gerald Nametag, Skateboard Nerd, Gil Ferris, and Plazamo. | |
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