Industry Panel ▪︎ Sketch to Screen: From Late Show with David Letterman to Saturday Night Live
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75 minutes @Asylum NYC
From Sketch to Screen brings audiences inside the creative journey of turning comedy from a blank page into award-winning television and film. Joined by three Emmy-winning writers, this panel explores the leap from live performance and sketch to scripted storytelling, writers’ rooms, and production. Expect honest insight, career-shaping advice, and behind-the-scenes stories from creators who’ve done it at the highest level.
Norm Laviolette - Moderator
Norm Laviolette is founder of Improv Asylum, Laugh Boston, Asylum NYC, and Lil Chuck Theatre, and serves as CEO of the New York Comedy Film Festival. A longtime performer and producer, Norm brings firsthand experience in what it takes to create truly funny work while building sustainable businesses that support comedians, writers, and emerging voices. As a moderator, he offers a rare perspective that bridges creative risk, real-world execution, and the future of comedy as both an art form and an industry.
Ceara O’Sulliovan - Panelist
Ceara is an Emmy Award-winning television writer who is in her fourth year at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Ceara co-wrote and produced the upcoming Happy Madison film ROOMMATES starring Sarah Sherman, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Kroll, and Sadie Sandler, which will premiere on Netflix in 2026.
Ceara co-hosts the 2025 Webby-nominated comedy podcast PETTY CRIMES, named one of the “Best Podcasts of the Year” by Time Magazine. The podcast is a true crime comedy podcast that only investigates small interpersonal issues submitted by the listeners.
She was a NEW FACE at the Just For Laughs Festival Montreal in 2022, and she is an alum of the Improv Asylum mainstage. Ceara hosts her monthly show IMPROV WITH MY FRIENDS FROM WORK with SNL cast and writers at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. They do improv and read sketches that (rightly) never made it past the table read.
Eric Stangel - Panelist
The Stangels got their start in television in 1995 writing jokes for Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update.
In 1997 they got their dream job, being hired as Staff Writers for Late Show with David Letterman. They became Head Writers in 2000 and Executive Producers in 2001. They served as the longest tenured Head Writers in Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman history.
Recently they have sold live action and animated TV comedies as well as the daytime variety show "Harry" starring Harry Connick Jr.
Eric and Justin, while having no athletic ability have also signed one day contracts with 13 minor league baseball teams and a hockey team.
The Stangels have won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards (Very impressive) but have lost 44 Emmys (Equally impressive).
Justin Stangel - Panelist
If this bio sounds familiar then your brain is working… The Stangels got their start in television in 1995 writing jokes for Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update.
In 1997 they got their dream job, being hired as Staff Writers for Late Show with David Letterman. They became Head Writers in 2000 and Executive Producers in 2001. They served as the longest tenured Head Writers in Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman history.
Recently they have sold live action and animated TV comedies as well as the daytime variety show "Harry" starring Harry Connick Jr.
Eric and Justin, while having no athletic ability have also signed one day contracts with 13 minor league baseball teams and a hockey team.
The Stangels have won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards (Very impressive) but have lost 44 Emmys (Equally impressive).