Industry Standard W/ Barry Katz

If Don Rickles were a woman with a slight weight problem and a well-documented fondness for having sex with African-American men, he'd sound an awful lot like comedienne Lisa Lampanelli, comedy's lovable queen of mean. Lampanelli studied journalism at Syracuse University and Harvard, and briefly enjoyed a successful career in the magazine industry, working at 'Popular Mechanics," "Spy Magazine," and was contributor for "Hit Parader" and "Rolling Stone." Deciding journalism was not for her, she quit and became a party DJ in 1990, entertaining partygoers via the microphone. Following a trip to a comedy club, she took a course in improvisation, which led to her first successful stand-up performances in New York City in the early 1990s. Lampanelli's real rise to fame began in 2001, where she made a stand-out appearance on Comedy Central's Friar's Club Roast of Hugh Hefner and was invited back in 2002 as the only female comedian invited to roast Chevy Chase at the New York Friars club which would air on Comedy Cen

BEST OF COMEDY CENTRAL (highlights of 3 impactful interviews): Doug Herzog is the president of Viacom Music and Entertainment Group, he oversees MTV, VH1, Logo TV, Comedy Central, Palladia, Spike, and Epix. Before that he was the President of MTV, Comedy Central, Fox, and USA where he was instrumental in launching multiple Emmy winning shows like “South Park,” “The Daily Show,” “Colbert Report,” “Malcom in the Middle,” and “Monk.” // Jonas Larsen, is Comedy Central’s Senior Vice President, Talent and Specials, who oversees the production and development of original specials and tentpole events such as the Emmy-nominated “Comedy Central Roast” franchise “Roast Battle,” “Adam Devine’s House Party,” “This Is Not Happening”; the upcoming “G-d Damn Comedy Jam,” and a diverse slate of specials like the Emmy Award-winning “Night of Too Many Stars” benefit, the critically acclaimed “Jeff Ross Roasts Prisoners: Live at Brazos County Jail, ” and the Peabody Award-winning “DL Hughley: The Endangered List.”// Kent Alterm

MILT LARSEN is best known as the legendary creator and owner of historic The Magic Castle, a private club for magicians and enthusiasts in Los Angeles. Larsen (who is also a writer, actor, performer, lyricist, magician, and entrepreneur ) and his brother, the late Bill Larsen Jr., were both in television and grew up in a family of magicians. In 1936 Larsen's parents published Genii, the Conjurors Magazine, which is still in publication. In 1999, Magic magazine selected the Larsen Family as one of the 100 most influential magicians in the 20th century. Milt also created the Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica, California (a Victorian British music hall featuring live stage shows), The Variety Arts Theatre - Los Angeles, and Caesars Magical Empire at Caesars Palace Las Vegas. Over 50 years ago, Larsen was a writer for the classic Ralph Edwards audience participation TV show "Truth or Consequences" starring Bob Barker and wrote the "Malibu U" television series (an audience participation shows starring Vin Scully

JAY MOHR is a comedian, actor, best-selling author, executive producer, radio and TV host...with a career that has spanned several decades. After landing his dream job of "Saturday Night Live," 2 years later, he was cast opposite Tom Cruise in "Jerry Macquire" and that same year co-star with Jennifer Anniston in "Picture Perfect." Jay has appeared in over 25 films with some of the greatest actors and directors of our generation including "Go" (with director Doug Liman and actress Sarah Polley), "Pluto Nash" (with Eddie Murphy), "Suicide Kings" (with Christopher Walken), "Simone (with Al Pacino), "Playing by Heart" (with Ellen Burnstyn and Angelina Jolie), and "Herafter" (with director Clint Eastwood  and actor Matt Damon). He also starred in his own groundbreaking TV series produced by Joel Silver and the late Ted Demme ("Action") for FOX and starred in the critically acclaimed CBS scripted comedy "Gary Unmarried." Additionally, he wrote the best selling book "Gasping for Airtime" and "No Wonder my Parents Dr

Former Air America radio writer and correspondent (2003-2006), social justice activist, internationally renowned political satirist and author of the acclaimed seven stories press book 'Never Shake Hands with a War Criminal' helped bring the Boston comedy scene into the modern age when he founded two of Boston's most fabled clubs: The Ding Ho and Stitches. Such acts as Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone, Bobcat Goldthwait, Kevin Meaney, Jimmy Tingle and many, many others cut their comedic teeth in the rooms Crimmins started at shows he produced. As the years went on, he became an activist of sorts, travelling to Nicaragua to perform political satire about the U.S. government and the Contras. The brilliant, multi-talented Barry Crimmins is also an actor, known for The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion (1986) When Stand Up Stood Out (2003), and Call Me Lucky (2015) which documents in detail his traumatic early childhood experiences of being raped my a next door neighbor in the basement of his own home. Crimmin's sa

In 1969, SHEP GORDON founded Alive Enterprises, a personal management company and over the years, Gordon and Alive have been responsible for managing the careers of Alice Cooper, Groucho Marx, Raquel Welch, Anne Murray, Ben Vereen, Teddy Pendergrass, Stephanie Mills, Blondie, Manhattan Transfer, Burton Cummings, Yvonne Elliman, Midnight Star, George Clinton, Luther Vandross, Rick James, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, Kenny Loggins, Gipsy Kings , the Pointer Sisters, and many more, who have sold a total of over 100 million albums worldwide.  Gordon and Alive set many precedents in the music industry including the first television production of an album (Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare”), the first long form rock video produced for home release (Blondie’s “Eat to the Beat”), and one of the first concert television series (“Rock and Roll Tonight”), all of which inspired a new generation of music video and theatrical rock concert productions.  In the mid 70’s, Alive ventured into the movie business

MONA SCOTT-YOUNG is a successful talent manager, television producer, publisher, TV host and CEO and Founder of multi-media entertainment company Monami Entertainment, home to Grammy Award-winning artist Missy Elliott, publishing imprint Monami Books and VH1’s most popular docu-franchise "Love & Hip Hop". Scott-Young is executive producer of "Love & Hip Hop" and the highly rated spin offs "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta", and "Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood", the latest addition to the successful franchise. Scott-Young has also executive produced the related series, "Chrissy & Mr. Jones" and "K. Michelle: My Life", as well as numerous reunion shows and specials for VH1 where she also served as on-camera host and narrator. Monami recently announced the pickup of two new series, "Money Power Respect" (WEtv) and "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta spinoff", "Stevie & Joseline Take LA" (VH1). Scott-Young’s additional credits include consulting executive producer for VH1’s Amber Rose talk show and executive p

J.B. SMOOVE is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and voice actor, who grew up in the projects and launched his career on Def Comedy Jam in the early 1990s. Although he spent three years at SNL as a writer and bit performer as well as being a series regular on the Fox sitcom “'Til Death” and the CBS show “The Millers,” he is best known for his amazing role of Leon on the HBO series “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Smoove's film credits include “With or Without You,” “Pootie Tang,” “Date Night,” “Hall Pass,” “The Sitter,” “We Bought a Zoo,” “The Dictator,” “A Haunted House,” “Clear History,” and “Mr. Deeds.” In 2012, his first televised comedy special, “JB Smoove: That's How I Dooz It,” premiered on Comedy Central. In the summer of 2014, Smoove hosted the eighth season of the NBC Emmy nominated reality series “Last Comic Standing” and in July 2016, Smoove appeared on comedian Jerry Seinfeld's critically acclaimed web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac

SCOTT AUKERMAN is an Emmy winning creator, producer, host, writer, and creator, known for launching and successfully sustaining the parody talk show "Comedy Bang! Bang!. The show's 5th season premiered on June 3, 2016 on IFC with Weird Al serving as bandleader, with the 2nd part of season 5 coming back to IFC in October 2016. Past guests include Zoe Saldana, Paul F. Tompkins, Jon Hamm, Aziz Ansari, Adam Scott, Patton Oswalt, Seth Rogen, Thomas Lennon, Zach Galifianakis, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, Amy Poehler, and Michael Cera. This past year, Aukerman wrote the hilarious 67th Primetime Emmy Awards with Andy Samberg. Aukerman's production company, CBB Productions, is currently developing multiple projects for a variety of networks and NBC Universal’s Seeso has added two shows run by CBB and executive produced by Scott, including the highly-anticipated reality spoof show "Bajillion Dollar Propertie$" and "Take My Wife.” In addition, Aukerman is also the co-creator, co-producer, co-writer and a

LANCE BURTON is widely considered by his peers to be the greatest stage magician of the past century. Born in Louisville, KY, his first break came in a debut appearance on the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” and through the course of Burton’s career he was invited back for a total of ten appearances while Johnny was host and another ten appearances during Jay Leno’s tenure. Additionally, Lance has racked up appearances on Letterman, Leno, The View, Ferguson, The World’s Greatest Magic, Hollywood Squares, and guest starring roles on “Knight Rider’ and “Las Vegas.” In 1996, Lance Burton’s first TV special, “Lance Burton Master Magician; The Legend Begins,” aired on NBC and was quickly followed by a series of 4 TV specials. He also hosted specials for the history channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, The Family Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, The Family Channel, and many more. While successful on TV, Burton’s greatest accomplishments have been made in live performance, working primarily in Las Vegas, performi

GEORGE WALLACE is an award-winning stand-up comic and renowned Vegas headliner, having also established a successful T.V. and film career that has spanned four decades. One of his first jobs in the entertainment field was working as a writer for legendary comedian Redd Foxx and on the big screen, he made the most out of supporting roles in such films as “Things are Tough All Over,” “Punchline” (starring Tom Hanks and Sally Field), “A Rage in Harlem,” with Gregory Hines and Forest Whitaker, and the Coen Brothers film “The Ladykillers” as well as appearances on such T.V. shows as “Seinfeld” and “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” In 1995, he won the American Comedy Award for Best Male stand-up performer- the same year he appeared as the mayor of Gotham City in “Batman Forever.” Additionally, he was features in his own HBO “One Night Stand.” In 2004, Wallace appeared as the headlining star of his own show at The Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas for a 30 day run. Sin city showed its admiration by extending Wallace’s contra

JAYSON DINSMORE serves as executive vice president of development for CMT, where he leads growth and programming of all original series and oversees the development teams in the network’s Los Angeles and Nashville offices. Since joining the network in February 2011, Dinsmore has redefined the brand’s creative filter, doubled the number of series in development and launched the most successful shows in the network’s history. Under his leadership, CMT saved“Nashville” and notched the network’s highest ever ratings for an original series with the scripted comedy “Still The King” (2016). In unscripted, Dinsmore launched some of the brand’s biggest hits including “Broken Skull Challenge” (2014), “Party Down South” (2014) and “I Love Kellie Pickler” (2015). Additionally, he created a critically acclaimed documentary division (“Urban Cowboy: The Rise of Fall of Gilley’s,” “Johnny Cash: American Rebel,” “The Bandit,” and “Chicken People”). Dinsmore spent over a decade at NBC Entertainment where he served in several c

GARRY MARSHALL'S FINAL INTERVIEW: GARRY MARSHALL was a national treasure--a 50 year show business veteran who created, wrote, produced, and acted in some of the most beloved projects in history. The legendary Hollywood icon worked on a plethora of huge hit TV series, such as "The Dick Van Dyke Show," "Happy Days," "The Lucy Show," "Laverne & Shirley," "Mork & Mindy," and "The Odd Couple," as well as 20 blockbuster films, including "Pretty Woman," "Beaches," "Runaway Bride," "The Princess Diaries," and "New Year's Eve." He was an extraordinary man. I will miss him dearly and so will the rest of the world. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/industry-standard-w-barry-katz/support

JONAS LARSEN is Comedy Central’s Senior VP OF Talent and Specials and oversees the production and development of original specials and tentpole events such as the Emmy-nominated “Comedy Central Roast” franchise, which includes the recent smash-hit Roasts of Justin Bieber, James Franco, and Charlie Sheen; all stand-up programming for the channel including stand-up series such as “The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail,” “Adam Devine’s House Party,” and “This Is Not Happening”; as well as a diverse slate of specials like the critically acclaimed “Jeff Ross Roasts Prisoners: Live at Brazos County Jail,” the Emmy Award-winning “Night of Too Many Stars” benefit, ,”  and the Peabody Award-winning “DL Hughley: The Endangered List."   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/industry-standard-w-barry-katz/support

PAUL FEIG is a mega-talented multiple Emmy nominated artist and creator, simultaneously working successfully as an author, filmmaker, writer, producer, and director whose films have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. In television, he is the creator of the beloved and critically acclaimed series “Freaks and Geeks” executive produced by Judd Apatow, which launched the careers of Seth Rogen, James Franco, and Jason Segel. In the film world, he reunited with Apatow in the monstrous hit movie “Bridesmaids,” which garnered Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay, as well as box office smashes “The Heat” and “Spy,” which was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. In addition, Feig also produced the Golden Globe nominated film “The Peanuts Movie” and his newest movie is the 2016  reboot of the historic movie “Ghostbusters.” He also has the distinction of being named one of Esquire's “Best Dressed Men in Hollywood.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor

ANTHONY CLARK is a prolific actor, comedian, and producer who was named College Entertainer of the Year while studying at Emerson College and also won the Top College Comedian Award from the American Collegiate Talent Showcase. Clark started his acting career with film roles  in “Dogfight” with River Phoenix, “The Thing Called Love,” (Peter Bogdanovich), and “The Rock” (directed by Michael Bay). In stand-up Clark broke in 1995 on HBO's “Young Comedians Special” hosted by Garry Shandling (along with Dave Chappelle, Dave Attell, and Louis C.K). In television, he starred in the CBS series “Yes, Dear” and was nominated for a Young Artist and Prism Award. Additional shows he starred in were "Ellen," "Soul Man," "Boston Common, as host of the Emmy Nominated “Last Comic Standing,” and his critically acclaimed stand-up special, "Ambiguous," is now airing on Showtime.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. --- Support this p

PAUL PROVENZA is an extraordinary stand-up comedian, director, writer, creator, and producer, as well as a classically trained TV and film actor, who at 20, became one of the few Americans who played "Romeo" on the British stage. In TV, Paul wrote, produced, and starred in the series "Comics Only" and "Pulp Comics" and was a series regular on "Empty Nest," "The Facts of Life," "Northern Exposure," "Beggars and Choosers," "The West Wing," and co-starred in the critically acclaimed CBS TV movie, "Under the Influence" with Keanu Reeves and Andy Griffith. In the literary world, Random House published his book !Satirists!, with noted art/portrait photographer, Dan Dion. In theater, Paul worked with Steve Martin, starring in his hit play, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and directed and co-produced (with Penn Jillette) "The Aristocrats." Paul also co-created Set List: Stand-Up Without a Net which was produced as a TV series in the UK and as a 65 episode order of a web series for Nerdist. Paul also created, The Green Roo

DAVE MANDEL is a multi-Emmy nominated writer and executive producer, who currently (as well as those roles) is the show runner of "Veep." Additionally, he has been a writer on "SNL" and an executive producer on "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm." He also wrote "Clerks: The Cartoon," and the feature films "The Dictator," "The Cat In The Hat" and "Eurotrip." Some of his most notable television episodes that he wrote were the 'Treehouse of Horror XXIII episode' with Brian Kelley on "The Simpsons" and 'The Bizarro Jerry' (AKA Manhands'), 'Betrayal' (The 'Backwards episode' with Peter Mehlman), as well as the infamous 'Pool Guy' episode on "Seinfeld," for which he won a prestigious Writers Guild Award. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/industry-standard-w-barry-katz/support

DENNIS RODMAN began his professional basketball journey in 1986 as the 2nd round (27th overall) pick of the Detroit Pistons.  At the end of his NBA career, after playing with the Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks, he became one of the NBA's dominant all-time players, finishing his career with five NBA championships, two All-Star appearances, twice named the league's Top Defensive Player, and the only player in history to lead the league in rebounding seven seasons in a row.  In 2011, Rodman was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/industry-standard-w-barry-katz/support

BEN GLEIB is a comedian, writer, producer, and host who Esquire Magazine called one of "Six Comedians Who Could Be Comedy's Next Big Thing." The other 5 were Aziz Ansari, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Demetri Martin, and Flight of the Conchords. It came true for each of them, and it now seems to be Gleib's time, as he is now in his third season as the host and executive producer of “Idiotest," the Emmy nominated comedy game show on GSN, which is their most watched original show. (For Gleib, EP is not just a title. He helps create all of the show's brain puzzles.)   Some his more prominent work before “Idiotest,” were as a regular guest and star of over 100 episodes of Chelsea Lately and as a regular on "The Today Show" with Kathie Lee and Hoda, and multiple appearances on Comedy Central's @midnight.   A truly unique voice in comedy, Gleib has been a regular on-air contributor to CNN and NPR (where he won a Golden Mic,) is an accomplished voice over actor (The Book of Life, Ice Age: Continental Drift - the secon