Tag: series

  • MTV Ad Sales Guys Ira Sperling & John Kelly Jam On Guitar & Vocals Here In My Office

    Special thanks to John Kelly and Ira Sperling, both from MTV ad sales’ “Pricing & Inventory” group. Not just for the great performance — shot live in my office — but also for their patience (I’ve been holding on to these clips for a while, keeping them to myself). By day, these guys manage the…

  • Season One Finale Of MTV’s Jersey Shore Got A 4.8 Rating Last Night!

    The incredible MTV exec in charge of Jersey Shore sits about 10 feet from my office. She is too shy to let me say her name here, but at least I got this photo of her holding up last night’s rating for the show…

  • ShitMyDadSays Gets A TV Deal!

    Not for nuthin, but we called this one 2 months ago! Maxine Shen of the New York Post reports that Justin Halpern, 29, who lives at home with his dad and tweets the hilarious shit his dad says, is developing a series based on his tweets for CBS. Here’s Justin: Here’s Justin’s dad: Max Mutchnick…

  • Picture DL Hughley & Michael Chertoff Debating The Torture of Somali Pirates…

    Happy to hear last night (at Haru, which is way too loud) that a new format, “The News Has No Clothes,” is gaining momentum. After a successful experiment at the Aspen Ideas Festival, it’s now getting packaged and shopped for TV. The format brings a performance element back to topical (political) comedy. As Craig Minassian…

  • My Hands Are Bananas

    Nick Andrews is a student filmmaker at Montana State. Here’s what Nick looks like: I first saw Nick’s work when he starting posting films in mtvU’s BEST FILM ON CAMPUS (aka BFOC), an incubator for college student filmmakers. Best Film On Campus is wall to wall with amazing young writers and directors. When they start…