Every Second Counts: Find Your Late Night TV Set

Every Second Counts is a 1.5 hour seminar on how to find your TV set and make that perfect tape taught by Jessica Pilot, booker for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as well as other national television shows.

Workshop Description:
Get ready to present yourself in the best possible way. 

In this seminar, we will cover the following: Contacting the Booker/Paths to Submission, Taping Set For Submission, Receiving Feedback, Accepting Rejection, Etiquette, Circling back to Resubmit, Don’t bury the good stuff, This is Supposed to be Fun, Standards & Practices (Can I say ‘vagina’?), Refining Set, Approval, Taping

Jessica Pilot is a network talent booker, writer, and producer. She's an expert in the world of comedy, and has been lauded for her ability to discover emerging talent in venues across the nation. Jessica's passion is the art of stand up comedy, and she has more than 10 years of success in creating content for television, print, and online platforms. She currently books the stand up segments for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", and has previously worked as a talent booker for programming on BET and Netflix. Jessica was a featured speaker on comedy industry topics at "Yale's Women's Leadership Initiative", the "Women in Comedy Festival" in 2017, and the upcoming season two of CNN's "History of Comedy."