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Sunday, November 30, 2025

TOM STOPPARD EXIT STAGE LEFT

by Paul Lander




Tom Stoppard is dead.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
await him in the wings.


Paul Lander has worked as a writer and/or producer for shows on ABC, NBC, Showtime, The Disney Channel, ABC Family, VH1, LOGO and Lifetime. In addition, he’s written standup material that’s been performed on ‘Fallon,’ ‘Maher,’ ‘Daily Show,’ etc. His humor pieces have been accepted at American Bystander, Light: Poetry, Weekly Humorist, McSweeney‘s, and Humor Times. He has won awards from the National Soc. of Newspaper Columnists, London’s Blogger's Bash and Univ. of Dayton’s Bombeck Workshop.