It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote by Vilanch, Bruce
It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote by Vilanch, Bruce

It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote

"Bruce Vilanch, a storyteller without peer, has written a tell-all . . . on himself! And it's...
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Author: Bruce Vilanch
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It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote by Vilanch, Bruce

It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote

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It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote by Vilanch, Bruce

It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time: The Worst TV Shows in History and Other Things I Wrote

$43.97
Author: Bruce Vilanch
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"Bruce Vilanch, a storyteller without peer, has written a tell-all . . . on himself! And it's hilarious! He's finally coming clean and owning up to his part in creating some of the worst television of the twentieth century, and that's saying a lot. There's no one like him. As they've been saying since I discovered him as a cub reporter at the Chicago Tribune, when you're in a pinch . . . Get Bruce!" --BETTE MIDLER

Bruce Vilanch is known as a go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and over-the-top variety specials, but he has also been responsible for quite a few of the most legendary disasters ever made.
Some of his work lives in infamy--The Star Wars Holiday Special, The Paul Lynde Halloween Special, Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White at the Oscars, and The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. How did these ever seem like a good idea?
Well, everyone has screwed up a few times, or had their work screwed up by others. It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time is a lifetime reflection of what Vilanch has experienced, learned, and forgotten in decades of working in show business, specifically the south forty acres known as comedy. It involves very famous people and people who were not very famous but should have been.
It explains to the people in the audience who say to themselves, once they have gotten their jaw off the floor, "'How did this ever get made?"
Don't we all want to know?


Author: Bruce Vilanch
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780914091929


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2025
Library Journal 03/01/2025 pg. 103
Booklist 02/25/2025
Shelf Awareness 03/08/2025

About the Author

Bruce Vilanch is an actor (occasionally an actress), writer (occasionally a rewriter), and comedian (occasionally for money, often for causes). He has coauthored 25 Academy Award spectacles, winning two writing Emmys in the process, and has been nominated for seven more. In addition to the Oscars, he has cowritten many Tonys, Emmys, Grammys, People's Choice, American Comedy Awards, TV Land Awards, SAG Awards, and a ton of other pageants, roasts, tributes, and various trumped-up reasons for people to strut a red carpet. He has coauthored dozens of variety television shows and actually put words in the mouth of Cher. He's also a lyricist, scoring gold and platinum records for disco songs he wrote for Eartha Kitt and the Village People. And musical theatre geeks will remember him as the coauthor of the Broadway misfire called Platinum, which was revived off-Broadway for reasons that continue to mystify Bruce.


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