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{{trope}}
{{quote|''You think I've sold out?
''Dead right I've sold out!
''I just keep waiting for the right offer
''Comfortable quarters, regular rations
''24-hour Five Star room service
''And if I'm honest, I like the lady
''I can't help being touched by her folly
''I'm treading water, taking the money
''Watching her sun set... Well, I'm a writer!''
|'''[[Sunset Boulevard]],''' from [[The Musical]] of the same name}}
Any portrayal of Hollywood in TV or film is going to feature a lot of jokes at the expense of the writers of the [[Show Within a Show]], or writers in general.
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Sort of a reverse version of [[This Loser Is You]]. Compare [[Biting the Hand Humor]]. A form of [[Self-Deprecation]], obviously—the writers wrote that writer-bashing script, of course. Often a result of [[Most Writers Are Writers]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the anime version of ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' Excel is given the mission of killing the creator of the manga the show is based on. While sneaking up on him he cheerfully sings to himself "La la la, manga artists are the scum of the Earth".
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== [[Comics]] ==
* The first book of ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'' starts with a SWAT team arresting the authors (most of them getting re-drawn into ducks in the process). It turns out the comic lacks sense and the heroes spend the rest of the comic looking for it.
* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' there's a one-off joke about Amy's ex-boyfriend, a writer, who wrote a horror novel called Razorville based on what she told him about the puberty and sexuality of girls. She hates it so much that she dumps him, and advises Tulip never to date a writer, because Writers Suck. And yes, that phrase actually IS included.
* Example from ''[[Metal Men]]'': Douglas, Robot Hunter (actually a brain-damaged TV star) muses about writers: over-weight, bearded, foul-smelling men (and one really cute girl with glasses) locked away in a cramped little room, writing overblown dialogue and preposterous storylines.
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** In the ''George and Azazel'' stories, George spends much of his time running down the (unnamed) narrator's profession. The narrator is a writer (and in the introduction to the anthology, Asimov admits that the unnamed author is indeed himself).
* ''[[Don Quixote]]'': Gines de Pasamonte: An ungrateful galley slave whom Don Quixote frees. Gines is a [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|cynical bandit, thief, swindler and picaresque writer]]. Also, he's a {{spoiler|[[Master of Disguise]]}}
* In ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', {{spoiler|the characters meet [[Stephen King]] himself. The man is portrayed as a lazy, drunken jerk. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in that the Stephen King writing the current novel is older, and has gotten over his alcohol and drug problems, though he's still portrayed as dangerously lazy to the main characters, who [[Meta Fiction|need him to keep writing]] so they can [[The End of the World as We Know It|save the multiverse.]]}} Much [[Mind Screw]] ensues.
* [[P. G.
** In one instance he noted that poets were the most carefree, happy-go-lucky fellows alive... in contrast to their writings, which were invariably somber or morose.
* In ''[[The Lost Fleet]]'' series, Captain Desjani remarked once that she considered becoming a literary agent rather than a Fleet officer ... but "taking that job would have meant I had to work with writers, and you know what they're like."
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Averted awesomely in ''[[Friends]]''. In the sitcom, Joey is making a lot of money in his acting job in the soap opera [[Show Within the Show|Days Of Our Lives]] - until he makes the mistake of giving an interview in which he says he writes all of his own lines. Needless to say, the real writers get pissed, and they kill off Joey's character in the [[Show Within the Show]], and Joey loses his brand new apartment, all his expensive furniture, and is forced to move back in with Chandler.
* [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Private Practice]]'', which once featured a writer who beat her child when she was in pain or had trouble writing. Further, before this was proven, Sam tries to defend the lady and get this reply from Cooper: "Why, because she's a writer? ''There's'' a group of historically stable people!"
* ''[[CSI]]'' Classic, in its Hollywood [[Sitcom]] episode ("Two and a Half Deaths") featured this.
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** Another episode has them meet a man who has written trashy romance novel versions of all the episodes. When it's not [[This Loser Is You|attacking]] [[Fan Girls]] the author is apologizing for the poor writing of tome of the novel/episodes.
* In the ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' "Hollywood Episode", Eric finds himself on a set of what is clearly supposed to be ''Boy Meets World'', and the writers are shown as small children.
* The writers working under head writer Liz Lemon in ''[[30
* ''[[Entourage]]''
* In the short-lived series ''Action'', the writer of the movie being made is portrayed as a pathetic and wimpy.
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== [[Theater]] ==
* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': This play, written in 1897, has various examples:
** At Act I Scene IV, Viscount de Valvert shows his despise toward poets calling Cyrano one of them.
{{quote|'''Viscount De Valvert''' ''(contemptuously):'' Poet!. . .}}
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** In another episode, a writer suggests that [[Viewers are Morons|the viewers aren't morons]] and gets fired.
** From the Poochie episode:
{{quote|'''Roger Myers:''' The rest of you start writers thinking up a name for this funky dog; I dunno, something along the line of say... Poochie, only more proactive. [Leaves]
'''Writer:''' So, Poochie okay with everyone? }}
*** The commentaries mention that the looks of the writers in that scene are all based on the show's actual writing staff.
** Earlier episodes enjoyed making fun of the fact most of the staff were Harvard Alums.
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