Working Together
Working roughly 12 hours each day, for 51 weeks per year, the writers of the show say their job is tough--but they can't complain.
"Since it takes 10 months from when the script is written to animate the show, we are in production 51 weeks per year," says Oakley.
"According to people who are in a position to know, this is the most difficult show to work on and run in all of television," he says.
During those long hours, the writers spend the vast majority of their time working as a group to revise and improve drafts of scripts that have been submitted.
"It is pretty bizarre that you graduate and then years later find yourself sitting in a room with the same people," says Cohen.
"The idea that television writing is a viable profession and that's what people are in college to learn was taking off right when I was graduating," Cohen says. "No one thought of [the Lampoon] as the golden road to Hollywood employment or anything."