GIGGLE EPIPHANY

The first comedy writer’s room was just a table of people roasting each other professionally.

✗ FAKE
Writers' rooms developed in 20th-century radio and television, with early examples such as Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows in the 1950s. They are collaborative, but the 'roast' description is a joke.

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