Scott Brown is a freelance writer, journalist and performer living in Brooklyn, New York. He wrote Gutenberg! The Musical! with Anthony King, artistic director of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.

Blog Entries by Scott Brown

Joe Wilson: Pan-Carolina Hollerin' Champeen

7 Comments | Posted September 10, 2009 | 01:50 PM (EST)


Look, I'm a hollerin', incipiently double-chinned white guy from the Carolinas. I come from a long line of hollerin', incipiently double-chinned white guys from the Carolinas. And I'm proud of my heritage. We, the wattle-shakers and troublemakers -- the grouchy-cracker vanguard -- we've been hollerin' stupid stuff for centuries. And...

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Mark Sanford: Reality Television Superstar

1 Comments | Posted July 2, 2009 | 11:25 AM (EST)


Remember Kid Nation? When it premiered, we couldn't decide what horrified us more: the idea of children abandoned in the desert to fend for themselves, or the fact that those children seemed to have imbibed, with mother's milk, the conventions of reality television--each and every one displayed an instinctive grasp...

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The Wire and Cloverfield: Bad Weekend for 20-Somethings

Posted January 24, 2008 | 04:20 PM (EST)


The best part about being in my thirties is not being in my twenties. This means I get to rail against "young people," who are, as we all know, awful: shaggy-maned, smooth-featured puds who are still allowed to experiment with their sexuality and wear clothes that look grave-robbed from Flip...

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