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Phil Wurdeman

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About Me

I'm a screenwriter, television writer, and filmmaker. I am currently a Contributing Writer/Production Associate for season two of the late night comedy show Comics Unleashed. My credits also include writing for the Miami based Spanish channel "Cl@se Television" where my work was seen on various cable platforms by over seven million children in 14 different South American and Caribbean countries.As you can tell, I'm proud of these accomplishments, but writing in Hollywood ain't an easy racket, and a lot of times I'm doing other things to pay the bills; but I found that if you make God, your family, and your friends the most important priorities in your life, everything else falls into place.

My Interests

Film, literature, television, writing, reading, jogging, hiking, basketball, the beach, hunting, fishing, bowling, softball,

Music:

I like all kinds of music but the stuff I like the most is roots music. I consider roots anything that has a lot of soul in it and you can hear the person's origins, the world that made them who they are, through their music. For me roots music usually include country, jazz, blues, southern rock, alternative country, and r&b.The coolest instruments are the banjo, then the trumpet, and then the guitar.I also like alternative rock, hip hop, classical, and movie scores.Techno and pop make me want to barf on my foot.

Movies:

Fargo, Once Apon a Time in The West, Eternal Sunshine, Rocky, Braveheart, Slingblade, Forrest Gump, The 3rd Man, High Noon, Goodfellas, Sullivan's Travels, Barton Fink, Stand By Me, Raising Arizona, Diner, Back to the Future, The Truman Show, True Romance, Rear Window, City Lights, The Godfather 1 and 2, Magnolia, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Adaptation, The Big Lebowski, State and Main, American Beauty, Billy Madison, Annie Hall, American Splendor, Dr. Strangelove, The Lady From Shanghi, Touch of Evil, F for Fake, Shane, The Kid, etc...

Television:

Seinfeld, The Simpsons, King of the Hill

Books:

The World According to Garp, Everythings Illuminated, A Widow for one Year, The Great Gatsby, The Da Vinci Code, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Catcher in the Rye, Stephen King on Writing, Desperation, Bag of Bones, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Blue Like Jazz, The Pearl, Tortilla Flat, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, All The Pretty Horses, The Tortilla Curtain, The Audacity of Hope

Heroes:

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My Blog

My Last Night in Texas

My last trip to Texas was at Christmas when I hunted on Zane's ranch. The ranch sat against the caprock, and opposite the rock and behind the mesquite and mistletoe and cactus was forever. The sky end...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:35:00 PST

King of The Hill Spec Script

This is a spec script for the show King of The Hill written by Phil Wurdeman and Abi Wurdeman. To get to the script please click on the link below. That will take you to adobe.com and you will then ne...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:35:00 PST

An Old Friend And Why The Sky Is Blue

Mike Christiansen and I were eighteen years old and walking down the street in front of my house in Eureka, Missouri. I can't remember exactly why& maybe we'd chased a basketball& but that was what we...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:36:00 PST

An Epic Journey Through Race and Time

PROLOGUEI’m currently on page 107 of a comedy screenplay that I’m writing with my sister. I spend an average of 25 hours a week writing comedy, so lately anything that I write on the side,...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:24:00 PST

Just For The Record...

Since season one of Comics Unleashed ended in July, and up until two weeks ago, I'd been working as an office production assistant for CF Entertainment& the company that produced Comics Unleashed. The...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:29:00 PST

My "My Name is Earl" Spec Script

I wrote an episode of My Name is Earl as a sample of my work as a sitcom writer. This episode has not been sold and is only a spec script. It received good reviews from my West Hollywood writing group...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

new years letter to family and friends

Dear Family and friends, I've decided that I'm getting to that age when you start sending out holiday letters updating your family and friends on what you've been doing with your life for the past yea...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:54:00 PST

A documentary that i was in

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Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:18:00 PST

Bored during the writer’s strike

Things are slow around here. Instead of working as a P.A/contributing writer for Comics Unleashed, I'm going to car conventions to shoot B-roll for stupid car shows. The boredom of this writer's strik...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:31:00 PST

end of season news according to Phil

Here's the final group of joke for season 1 of Comics Unleashed!...   Britney Spears was recently seen vomiting into a toilet at an L.A. night club. Witnesses say they knew she was drunk, be...
Posted by Phil Wurdeman on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:56:00 PST