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Romen Borsellino – TV Staff Writer & Producer and his incredible stories about working with Lilly Singh, Kal Penn, and President Obama!
Romen Borsellino is a staff writer on NBC’s A Little Late with Lilly Singh and was executive producer, and co-creator of Freeform’s 2020 election series Kal Penn Approves This Message.
He has also written for Adam McKay and Will Ferrell’s This Giant Beast That Is The Global Economy on Amazon Prime and worked on Michael Schur’s 2019 primetime NBC comedy Sunnyside.
Romen previously served as a political appointee in the United States Department of the Interior under President Obama. Romen has also worked on a number of high-profile political campaigns in his home state of Iowa, including President Obama’s historic 2008 Iowa caucus race and 2012 re-election.
In this conversation, we discuss:
The hilarious story when Romen’s Dad took his family to see Harold and Kumar in theaters
How Romen worked on the Clinton campaign and D.C. “breaking him” before L.A. could
Going from Kal Penn’s assistant to co-creator of a ABC Freeform show in a week
Romen had me laughing throughout the entire episode, and shows us the power of serendipitous moments. Please enjoy my conversation with Romen Borsellino!
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