Greg Garcia Has It His Way Working Fast Food During Strike

Where to start? Greg Garcia, creator of My Name is Earl, spent his strike/vacation, working in a fast food place to get “back in touch” with the real America, and presumably find some comedy gold in the antics of his fellow employees.

I’ve wanted to do a book about taking different jobs and what it was like to do them. This was the first. It may be a while before I do the second. But it’s just about the fact that we live behind gates and work behind gates, and as a writer you start to lose touch with the audience.

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