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About Mark:
Mark started his comedy career in the San Francisco stand-up comedy
scene, where he wrote and performed his own stand-up act, sharing
the comedy club stages and often doing improvisational comedy with
Dana Carvey and Robin Williams. Encouraged by Jay Leno to move to
Los Angeles, Mark became a stand-up fixture at the Comedy Store and
Improvisation nightclubs. TV soon beckoned, and Mark became the
first 4.0 perfect-score-from-all-three-judges winner on "Star
Search." Several talk show appearances followed. At the same time,
Mark created special stand-up comedy material for Roseanne, Rodney
Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, Jimmie Walker, Gallagher, Jay Leno, Garry
Shandling, Jim Carrey, and many others.
Entering the script-writing arena, Mark co-wrote and sold the
feature comedy, "Jury Duty," to Warner Bros., and was also given
story credit on the Warner Bros. TV/NBC movie, "Home By Midnight."
This was followed by a series of sit-com staff positions, ranging
from staff writer to story editor to executive script consultant, to
producer, on such shows as "The New Odd Couple," "Diff'rent
Strokes," "She's The Sheriff," "The Munsters Today," "The Carol
Burnett Show," (her more recent come-back attempt) and Dana Carvey's
HBO Special. This year, Mark also sold a feature film comedy idea to
Warner Bros.
Mark has been a nationally syndicated humor columnist for the Los
Angeles Times Syndicate. His humor essays have also appeared in
"Playboy" and "Penthouse" magazines, among others. He contributes
radio comedy sketches regularly to Premiere Radio Syndicate.
Finally, Mark has contributed comedy material to Showtime, the
Playboy Channel, America Online, "Weekly World News," and to
nationally syndicated cartoonists. He is currently working on a
religious screenplay titled "The Passion of The Moses," and
sincerely hopes both for world peace and for Paris Hilton to respect
his restraining order.
Mark's Experience Includes:
• Nationally syndicated humor essay writer for the Los Angeles Times
Syndicate.
• A regular humor column for "Entertainment Today" newspaper.
• Regular feature writer for "Weekly World News" tabloid.
• Contribute humor essays to a variety of national periodicals.
• Interactive, weekly comedy/relationships feature for America
Online.
• Writer-producer on seven TV sitcoms, both network and syndicated.
• Sale of a two motion picture comedies to Warner Brothers.
• Produced writer of an episode of TV animation.
• Sketch comedy writer for cable TV.
• Writer for nationally syndicated and cable TV game shows and for
game show pilots.
• Experience as a stand-up comedian, writing all my own material,
appearing on TV shows, and performing with Robin Williams and Dana
Carvey.
• Writer of celebrity roast material for the Playboy Channel.
• Joke writer for the likes of Jay Leno, Jim Carrey, Rodney
Dangerfield, Joan Rivers, and the Los Angeles Times.
•Contributor to three nationally syndicated daily newspaper cartoon
strips.
•Comedy greeting cards. |