Berman is married to sitcom writer Bill Masters and they have two children.

Marks and Gran are successful sitcom writers in their own right.

Concerned sitcom writers have come to call these jokes "clams."

The entire final sequence on the Nov. 12 show seemed to be nothing more than an inside joke aimed solely at sitcom writers.

He suggested a few words to live by for the sitcom writer, "Make it real, then make it funny."

Without those, what would magazines write about and who would sitcom writers use to fill their scripts?

But what does it really take to be a sitcom writer?

It's my job as a sitcom writer to tell jokes, to have fun.

George decides he can be a sitcom writer and comes up with it being "a show about nothing."