Gideon Evans spent six years at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as a field producer, produced Emmy-winning work with Michael Moore, and earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for My Grandmother's Ravioli with Mo Rocca. He is now the co-host and executive producer of the podcast Bad Elizabeth. We talked about what gets cut in the name of comedy, what it means to work without a boss for the first time, and the concepts that haven't found their form yet.

Mark Sweet has been warming up live studio audiences for nearly 40 years, across more than 4,000 episodes of television, from Cheers and Roseanne to The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men, and the current season of Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage.

Marc Liepis has spent his career working on guest-driven television, where timing, preparation, and judgment decide whether a segment holds together or ends up on the cutting room floor. His work spans SNL, Conan, Fallon, Stern, and VICELAND, sitting between the host, the guest, and the edit.

Susannah McCarthy builds the physical logic of a story. Her work on Mare of Easttown, Only Murders in the Building, The Gilded Age, Task, and FBI lives in details that don’t announce themselves but start to matter the second they’re wrong.

Mark Simon is the storyboard artist behind Stranger Things, The Walking Dead, Dexter, Lioness, and a few thousand other moments people know without ever knowing who shaped them. He’s the one translating a director’s early ideas into something the crew can actually shoot.

Hayley Blain Weinstein has shaped the people who drive shows like The Price Is Right, Intervention, Local Love, and branded campaigns for Walmart, Coca Cola, Netflix, and Mattel. Her work decides which real stories survive the camera.

Jason Wingham has been behind the impact of The Last of Us, Arrow, Fire Country, Superman and Lois, and hundreds of moments people never realize he built.