Vanessa Ramos is an American television writer and producer. She has written for several television series including '' Superstore'', '' Bordertown'', '' Crashing'' and ''

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.'' She created the

workplace comedy Office humor, also often called workplace comedy, is humor within the workplace, particularly in the office environment. It is a subject that receives significant attention from students of industrial and organizational psychology and of the soci ...

series '' Blockbuster'', which ran for one season on Netflix before its cancellation.

Biography

Ramos grew up in San Antonio. She graduated from

Texas State University Texas State University (TXST) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in San Marcos, Texas, United States, and another campus in Round Rock, Texas, Round Rock. Since its establishment in 1899, the university has ...

and moved to Los Angeles where she worked at the box office of the improv theater

iO West iO, or iO Chicago, (formerly known as ImprovOlympic) is an improv theater and training center in central Chicago. The theater teaches and hosts performances of improvisational comedy. It was founded in 1981 by Del Close and Charna Halpern. The ...

. She eventually started

stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage (theatre), stage and delivers humour, humorous and satire, satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical comedy, physical acts. These ...

. She was contracted to write jokes for comedians making TV appearances, and joined the staff of ''

Comedy Central Roast ''Comedy Central Roast'' is a series of celebrity roast specials that air on the American television channel Comedy Central. The first official ''Comedy Central Roast'' premiered on August 10, 2003. The network typically airs one or two roasts ...

''. She was a writer of the workplace comedy '' Superstore'' alongside

Sierra Teller Ornelas Sierra Nizhoni Teller Ornelas (Navajo, born March 3, 1981)@sierraornelas (March 3, 2024). https://twitter.com/sierraornelas/status/1764361410283254156/photo/1 Retrieved 21 April 2024. is a Native American showrunner, screenwriter, filmmaker and si ...

. In April 2021, she signed a deal with Universal Television to produce a single-camera workplace comedy, the series ''Blockbuster'', which ran on Netflix but was cancelled after one season. The irony of running on Netflix a show about ''Blockbuster -'' whose demise was partly caused by Netflix - was part of the advertising twist about the series. She said she heavily relied on her previous experience writing ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' for Luke Del Tredici and

Dan Goor Daniel Joshua Goor (born April 28, 1975) is an American comedy writer and television producer. He has written for several comedy talk shows including ''The Daily Show'', ''Last Call with Carson Daly'' and ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. He ...

to create the story-line of ''Blockbuster''.

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