Excitable Aspirations

Dane and I were brainstorming the other day, and something pee-inducingly exciting occurred to us.  The best job in the world, if you’re a creative, would probably be writing/producing Sesame Street.  Bear with me.

Sesame Street is like Saturday Night Live in almost every regard, except people don’t judge you as harshly, and you get to teach kids things.

But it’s exactly like SNL in that you have nearly unlimited access to any actor, politician, or public figure; and you can make them do almost anything.  You could actually probably get away with more on SS.  Picture Dame Judi Dench dressed up as a talking tree on SNL.  Doesn’t work, does it?  But she’d do it on SS without batting an eyelash.

And I imagine the writer’s room at SS being filled with Macs, toys, candy, and poster of Nelson Mandela on the wall.  How much of a freaking dream come true would that setup be?

A sampling of what you can get away with as a writer/producer on Sesame Street (I want in):