It seemed like a bad idea at the time: the worst TV shows in history and other things I wrote

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Chicago Review Press
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[2025]
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English

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"Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch is known as a go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and top-heavy variety specials, but he has also been responsible for quite a few of the worst shows ever made-legendarily bad productions. From The Star Wars Holiday Special to Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White at the Oscars, Vilanch reveals how he helped create some of the worst moments in television-and beyond"--

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9780914091929

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