2–3:30 p.m.

Award-winning TV writer and prolific humorist Steve Young will lead this entertaining – and sometimes inspiring – look at satire, humor and wit. He will draw from his experiences in Hollywood, his writing career, and some of the inspirational moments in his book, Great Failures of the Extremely Successful.

Steve Young has served as political editor of The National Lampoon and a regular pundit on the political radio/TV circuit, has been a frequent contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, L.A. Daily News and blogs. He has written for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Boy Meets World, Cybill, and was writer/director of My Dinner with Ovitz. He has written comedy for a presidential candidate, appeared on The Today Show, won on The Gong Show and once placed his family on Ebay for $5 million.

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