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The Larry Sanders Show is an American television sitcom set in the office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show. The series was created by Garry Shandling and Dennis Klein and aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network.
William Garrett Walden, known as W. G. Snuffy Walden, is an American musician and composer of film and television soundtracks. Walden is an Emmy Award winner for the theme music to The West Wing (NBC), has been nominated for numerous Emmys throughout his career, and has received 26 BMI Awards.
James Brolin is an American actor, producer, and director. He is the father of actor Josh Brolin and husband of Barbra Streisand. Brolin has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998. He is best known for his TV roles such as Stephen Kiley on Marcus Welby, M.D.(1969–1976), Peter McDermott on Hotel (1983–1988), and John Short in Life in Pieces (2015–2019), and his film roles such as Sgt. Jerome K. Weber in Skyjacked (1972), John Blane in Westworld (1973), and General Ralph Landry Traffic (2000).
Sara Gilbert is an American actress, director, and producer known for her role as Darlene Conner on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, for which she received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She is also creator and former co-host of the CBS daytime talk show The Talk and had a recurring role as Leslie Winkle on CBS's The Big Bang Theory.
Dream On is an American situation comedy about the family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor played by Brian Benben. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black-and-white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts. It was created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the team who would create the show Friends. It ran for six seasons on HBO between 1990 and 1996.
The Late Late Show is an American late-night television talk and variety comedy show on CBS. It first aired in January 1995, with host Tom Snyder, who was followed by Craig Kilborn, Craig Ferguson, and current host James Corden. The show originates from Television City in Los Angeles.
George Lopez is an American sitcom created by George Lopez, Bruce Helford and Robert Borden, which originally aired for six seasons, consisting of 120 episodes, on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007. It is currently in syndication on TBS, and stars the titular comedian George Lopez, who plays a fictionalized version of himself and revolves around his life at work and raising his family at home.
Michael Engler is an American theater director, and a Director's Guild of America and Emmy nominated television director and producer.
Jennifer Crittenden is an American screenwriter and producer. She started her writing career on the animated television series The Simpsons, and has since written for several other television sitcoms including Everybody Loves Raymond, Seinfeld and Veep. Her work has earned her several Emmy Award nominations.
Bradley Pierce is an American actor, producer and cinematographer. Along with other roles and bit parts in television, films, direct-to-video animation, advertising, and video games, he played Peter Shepherd in Jumanji, the original voice of Chip in Beauty and the Beast, one of the original voices for Tails from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and Pete Lender in the 1997 film adaptation of The Borrowers.
Robert Morton is an American television producer most notable for his work as a producer and later co-executive producer of the NBC program Late Night with David Letterman.
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Grant Shelby Hubley Jr., known as Whip Hubley, is an American actor and a former financial advisor.
Troy Miller is an American film producer, director and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in comedy and has been nominated for 15 Emmy Awards with two wins. Miller is known as an innovator in alternative comedy, and has directed four feature films as well as directing and producing numerous TV shows and specials.
Tracy Ann Newman is an American television producer, writer and musician. Newman is a founding member of the improvisational theater troupe The Groundlings. She was co-creator and executive producer of the sitcom According to Jim (2001–2009). She is also a singer-songwriter, as well as an original member of The New Christy Minstrels and lead singer of Tracy Newman and The Reinforcements. She is the mother of artist/writer Charlotte Dean, with whom she co-directs the live comedy show Charlotte's Shorts.
Lois Bromfield is a Canadian-American comedic actor, writer, and television producer originally from Toronto, Ontario. Her credits include Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, The Jackie Thomas Show and The New Hollywood Squares. In 1990, Bromfield appeared with Chris Aable in her first television interview, along with her HBO comedy video on Aable's show, Hollywood Today where she was interviewed along with her then-husband Steve Moore.
Jerry Foley is an American television director and producer formerly with Late Show with David Letterman. He is an executive producer and director of the Live on Letterman concert series. In June 1995, he succeeded Hal Gurnee as Director of the Late Show. Foley was named Supervising Producer in May 2003. He has 9 DGA Award nominations and 21 Emmy nominations—a record for a single person working on a variety series.
Dave Caplan, Ph.D. is an American television writer and Executive Producer of prime-time comedies. He co-developed and serves as writer/executive producer of ABC's The Conners. He was a writer/co-Executive on the reboot of Roseanne, which was the most-watched scripted TV show of the 2018-2019 season.