Comedy writer to collaborate on sitcom - a job post by Lawrence Kahn

About the job

I’m developing a half-hour ensemble sitcom and looking for a comedy writer to collaborate on improving an existing pilot and getting it truly ready for pitching.

The show is set in a contained world and lives or dies on character. The comedy comes from personality clashes, old grudges, shifting alliances, and what happens when new people show up and upset a social order that everyone else thought was permanent. The characters are older, not quieter. Adult humor, sex, drugs, and rock & roll are all still very much on the table, sometimes to their own surprise.
I have a fully developed pitch deck that has received unusually strong feedback from multiple readers, including people who believe the concept is genuinely distinctive and built to last. The pilot script itself does a good job establishing the world and ensemble, but it needs work — especially around structure, joke sharpness, and making sure each character sounds like themselves and not their neighbors on a good day.
Tonally, the show sits in the lineage of Taxi, The Office, All in the Family, and Fawlty Towers: strong performances, escalating conflict, and characters who would absolutely be happier if they were better people — but they aren’t.
Ideally, I’m looking for a writer with some real-world traction (produced, optioned, staffed, or otherwise commercially developed work) who understands how projects actually move through development and pitching. I’m also open to emerging writers with great samples and strong instincts.
Collaboration / Compensation
This is not a “do a quick punch-up and vanish” situation. I’m looking for a genuine development collaborator. I’m open to structuring this as a partnership, a paid development engagement, or something in between, depending on experience and involvement. Credit, backend, and any upfront compensation would be agreed on before we start arguing about jokes.
I’m not posting the logline publicly, but I’m happy to share the premise, deck, and script privately once there’s mutual interest.
If this sounds like something you’d enjoy wrestling with, please reach out with a short note and relevant comedy samples.