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Emmys: The Comedy Showrunner Roundtable

12:02 PM PDT 6/6/2011 by Matthew Belloni, Stacey Wilson

Television's funniest writers/executive producers come clean about feeling in over their heads, why they're scared of Twitter and how they would have handled Charlie Sheen.

If this year proved anything, the trials of the TV comedy showrunner are many: Beyond making sure there isn't too much drama in a black comedy or deciding how much sex your lead character should have (and with whom), this season the relationship between TV's highest-paid star and his boss burst into the national headlines.

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