![]() “So I was the first narrative designer they put to work for that studio to bring a story arc and character and comedy and make sure that the slapstick was working,” he says. ![]() ![]() “They felt they needed a television writer to come in and bring that to the game,” Scurfield says. Training in writing for television landed him a job writing for the video game Lego Legacy, which needed a subversive comedy voice akin to the Lego animated films. “I was a huge mark for two months because I couldn’t believe I was seeing buildings that were over 10 storeys high.” Winnipegger Burke Scurfield has been writing for Netflix’s first in-house adult animated series, Inside Job. “It’s when you’re fresh off the bus from somewhere like Winnipeg and you’re looking up at how tall everything is, someone will try and sell you a tour,” he says. To his own surprise, he got in, and found himself in the Big Apple, training himself not to look up at the tall buildings. “So I dropped out on the last day that I could get my tuition back from the U of M and took that year to write an application to New York University School of the Arts. “I was on a pre-law track, enrolled in the University of Manitoba for about eight days before I really realized I wanted to take a swing and try writing,” he says. Paul’s High School - “a really great school for future lawyers and doctors” - where he tried starting an improv club, or volunteering to do funny announcements. Scurfield did not follow in his father’s construction business, nor his aunt’s advice-giving gig, but came to comedy-writing when he attended St. She’s a real character, that’s for sure.” “It was pretty alarming and cool,” the Winnipeg born-and-raised Scurfield, 32, says. “It’s like Dunder-Mifflin in the deep state,” says Scurfield in a phone interview from Toronto.īack to that fateful headlock: It came about when he accompanied his aunt - the Winnipeg Free Press’s own Miss Lonelyhearts, Maureen Scurfield - on a trip to a WWF wrestling event she was covering for the Winnipeg Sun. ![]() Scurfield describes Inside Job as ‘Dunder-Mifflin in the deep state.’ (Supplied) president, the Illuminati, a secret moon colony and, yes, lizard people.Ĭreated by Shion Takeuchi with executive producer Alex Hirsch ( Gravity Falls), the show is a workplace comedy in which the workplace happens to include a sentient mushroom and a man-dolphin. The first season’s 10 episodes follow Reagan Ridley (voiced by Lizzy Caplan), a tech genius at the corporation Cognito Inc., which functions as an all-powerful enabler to the world’s most unbelievable conspiracies, encompassing a robot U.S. It’s not that Burke Scurfield was necessarily destined for a life in the entertainment industry.īut he allows being put in a headlock at the age of four by professional wrestler Bret “The Hitman” Hart may have had something to do with starting him on a path that would ultimately lead him to a writing gig on Netflix’s first in-house adult animated series, Inside Job. This article was published (630 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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