{
  "id": 2439913,
  "title": "For Comedy Writers, Saying Goodbye Can Be Tough",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/for-comedy-writers-saying-goodbye-can-be-tough",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T21:32:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/08/hacks-the-comeback-creators-ending-1237047693/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Saying goodbye is never easy, particularly if you’ve played a character for over 20 years, however intermittently. Lisa Kudrow knows this well, after her and Michael Patrick King, the co-creators of HBO’s The Comeback, said farewell to Valerie Cherish, a character that started at The Groundlings and was first turned into a comedy series in […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}