been done before.

I LOVE this. Best thing on the blog in ages.

I always take a motherly warmth from producers. I like it when they lick a hanky and wipe my face with it.

Mmm, they make everything alright.

sigh. I think i'm in love.

Writing 'been done before' has been done before.

hey teddo this isn't a matchmaking site

I married a planner and then the agency receptionist. Both ended in tears.

Hmmmm, producer you say?

I'm a producer and this made me laugh. thank you

I married a producer. The only problem is that she doesnt like to take her work home with her.

check with monty.

Stop fantasizing about Jasmine Ted.

Scot

Nice Ted, you're obviously a funny guy and a good writer, but what's the point?

Sounds a little bit Mt. Gambier to me.

Great article, and so true. I'm married to a fellow creative and we're thinking of adopting a producer. Any takers? We're both really secure people, seriously.

The problem with producers is, they want to please everyone. What you want is a financial controller. They report to one man.

I married another copywriter.

Our shopping lists are original, relevant and interesting. But nothing ever gets bought.

Brilliant. And so true.

I married a female client.

Now I have to take it up the arse.

this is so great! really good point! and what's even greater is that i really am marrying a producer!!!

All female producers have colourful pasts - and I mean on the dirty side.

i'm a producer.
this article just made my day :-)
i want to marry an executive creative director ...

whoa a lot of women showing up in these here comments

Lovely read! I'm from Creative and yes, I am now open to dating - and later on hook up, with producers!

I think you need a second opinion on this.

I married an art director.

That means ..

Oh fuck, I can't be bothered.

how tall is Ted?

I'm an art director and was going to marry a Creative Director but he pulled the pin on the whole wedding day while I was on the way to the church and 9 months worth of hard work, lunch, booze and photographers bills have gone down the toilet.

Now we're about to get married again. He's chosen the flowers. And written my vows. And picked the photographer. It's going to be exactly the same, just my family will sit one row back from the original seating plan.

Life's wonderful, isn't it?

I married a producer - she produced 2 kids and 4 edits of each birth!

I want to marry Ted. But I'm a creative.

Give a fuck

Very funny and so very true.

I am concerned by the stereotypical use of a female as a producer.

Surely, if the affection for a producer is genuine, it should matter not what their gender is.

4.57

So what made you think he wants to marry a woman?

p.s. how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

One. AND IT'S NOT FUNNY!

Why don't we just marry our jobs?

Jeez.

I remember advertising – a good few years ago, on another continent – where creatives didn't just come from colleges. They came from building sites, from teaching in schools, off the back of motorcycles in despatch companies, from cooking in old folks' homes.

Once they'd secured a desk in an agency, they spent most of their time away from it – encouraged by their CDs – seeing movies, visiting museums, drinking in the afternoon, lapping up life, mingling with the people they were talking to in their advertising.

How did we get so cosy? So inward looking? So parochial? So tied to our own overheated little industry? Or perhaps that's Ted's point. Perhaps I missed it.

(Oh, and 3.27pm, don't do it. The writing's on the wall).

there are bloke producers too - thought of that? ...bit of old school sexism going on here

Isn't this a job ad for D5 Aus?

Writing "Been done Before" when it has been done before, has been done before

I married a producer. best move i ever made. but i did meet her before she was a producer and before i was a copywriter (so please don't accuse me of being an inward focusing wanker)

I'm a producer, a female one, and regardless of whether anyone thinks it sexist i think it's a bit of fun and a nice read on a shitty day. It made me laugh.

Creatives and producers are meant to be. Maybe not for better or worse but certainly for some fun times. It's written in the advertising stars.

a producer would shop until you had no money left

5.42

but would he want to marry one?

Chumming the waters for Cannes, nice one Ted.

Hey Ted

Nice read - made me smile

But the worrried look on your face reminds me of our trips out to Toyota

Perhaps we should have taken a Producer with us?

Take care mate

NM

I'm with a producer and she takes me out every night and puts it on your job numbers . Then I score and she puts it on your job numbers. Then we get a hotel room and fuck all night and she puts it on your job numbers.
Producers rule. Then I cab it home and she puts it on your job numbers.
In fact every agency in town has paid for me and my producer to get it on.
Thankx y'all.
M

Marry a DOP...much better looking....

I thought Creative Directors always got the services of producers free of charge

Fuck me! If every person I'd met in the last fifteen years was in advertising, I'd be one sad mutherfucker.

And the point of this is....?

To 5.31 pm who wrote:

"Once they'd secured a desk in an agency, they spent most of their time away from it – encouraged by their CDs – seeing movies, visiting museums, drinking in the afternoon, lapping up life, mingling with the people they were talking to in their advertising.

How did we get so cosy? So inward looking? So parochial? So tied to our own overheated little industry? Or perhaps that's Ted's point. Perhaps I missed it."

I think we're all a little too bloody busy these days to be away from the agency that much. We're not in the 80s anymore Dorothy.

Besides, youtube, theage.com.au, pirate copies of underbelly, thecoolhunter.net and knickerpicker.com (when I've really got spare time) all serve pretty well as sources of staying in touch with the modern world.

How very oldschool.

Sounds like you want a PA not a wife, and u view advertising as a series of 80's stereotypes.

Lose weight and you might have a chance

god, some of you people are humourless!

Very funny, but like many creative advertising ideas missing a fundamental point.

Producers may find Creatives entertaining and amusing to lunch with, fun to go on away shoots with - and drink late into the night with. They may even find them charming on ocassion - and in a certain dingy light might even imagine themselves lying drunk in your arms. But all this light and love is usually overshadowed on the set or in meetings, where they are more often than not unbearably childish, totally egostical, very rude and utterly self-obsessed with their own brilliance.

So they just don't like them very much.

Therapists perhaps?

Are people seriously saying he's sexist for only wanting to marry a woman?

You want Ted to be bisexual for the sake of political correctness?

Boring and predictable, lets all perpetuate tired stereotypes shall we...... If you want a women to organise your life for you while you act precious, move back in with your mum

I screwed a producer, married a receptionist, had affairs with creatives and a PA's, but never touched a client. Am I missing out?

If I had a man-gina I'd spoon you all night long Ted.

Hey 5:08, the way I heard it was:

How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to change it, and one to suck my c*ck.

I'm a producer and my poor wife lives with the devil... Under paid, under valued, temperamental, not really respected, alcoholic, eats sh!t food, lies about where-a-bouts b/c in a pub and hides drinking problem, getting uglier by the week due to drinking, eating and stress issues, last one to leave each day, addicted to porn sites, e-bay, Google and porn sites, and last but not least about to slash my wrists..... Can someone give me a job in I.T? my C.V is above.....

Ted's a good catch. He's from Philadelphia. Cheesesteaks & weekends at the Jersey Shore. Can't ask for more than that!

Very sweet. And true. Producers are great. I've often marvelled at how they put up with shit coming from all angles, and still manage to pull everything together. I'm a chick, and I want to marry one too!

Ted

Having been your producer, I can tell you it wouldn't work from day one. You're married to your job, you're writer comes first over everybody and I don't take it in the bum.

Besides, I thought you enjoyed rooting mac operators too much!!!

Maaaggiiiii

3.09,

You're right. Mine was the G rated version.

Just goes to show there's more than one way to skin a feminist.

Cheers,

5.08

(By the way, I thought it was 'big, fat c**k')

Yoohoo! I'm a producer... will give you my husband's phone number. Talk.

I'm still waiting for the punchline.

Funny that.

Most CD's are suited to gold digging accounts girls. No wonder D5 are so different.

I married a client.

Our logo is of astronomical proportions.

I married a director. Laa Di daa.