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Writers' room class gives students a chance to write their own sketch comedy show in the style of "Saturday Night Live"
SNL-style notecards that read "April 30," "Spring Writers' Room," and "RTF"

In Cindy McCreery’s writers’ room class, Moody College of Communication radio-television-film (RTF) students have an opportunity to experience the realities of a television writers' room. Upon registering for the class, they only know they’ll be honing their abilities as writers - the genre is a surprise for the first day of class.

“I started the class in 2012,” McCreery said. “It was only for graduate students then, this is the first year I’ve done it for undergraduates, and each year we do something different.”

This semester, students were delighted, but also somewhat apprehensive, to learn they’d be writing sketch comedy in the style of "Saturday Night Live".

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Megan Radke
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