Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/HBO/Getty Images The Comeback ‘s initial pitch to HBO was floundering until co-creators Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King acted out the pilot’s most NSFW scene. “It was always kind of abstract. Nobody knew what Lisa would do,” King, 71, recalled of their pitch to top HBO executive Carolyn Strauss on Obsessed: The Podcast . Read more at The Daily Beast.