Sorkin’s next television project was Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07), which depicted the offscreen goings-on of a TV sketch-comedy program. However, the show survived only one season. Sorkin then returned to his theatrical roots with the Broadway production The Farnsworth Invention (2007), about the historical emergence of television,…

…21st century—including in the series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07) and Dead to Me (2019– )—along with occasional feature film roles, including one as Santa Claus in the 2003 movie Elf. He voiced the role of Carl Fredricksen, the lead character in the Academy Award-winning animated movie Up…

…Aaron Sorkin’s comedy-drama television series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07) and starred in the short-lived ABC comedy-drama Cupid (2009). In 2012 Paulson portrayed communications director Nicolle Wallace in Game Change, a drama about Sarah Palin joining John McCain’s presidential campaign during the 2008 election.

…later starred in Sorkin’s comedy-drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (2006–07), playing the head writer for a live comedy show similar to Saturday Night Live. Although expected to be a hit, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was canceled after one season.