My name is Gary. I live in Los Angeles, Los Feliz to be exact. 'About Me:' Here is what I can remember...During high school I worked at the legendary Catch A Rising Star comedy club. I am an art school drop-out. I work in television. My first job in TV, in 1992, was holding cue cards and doing set designs for The Joan Rivers Show. I also read and answered all of Joan's fan mail. Bags and bags of it. I can forge Joan's autograph to this day. I lived in New York City during my 20's, ironically I am still 26. I designed sets and graphics for tons of tv shows. MTV, VH1, Food Network, Lifetime, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Geraldo, Rolonda, Montel, and a handful of Off-Off Broadway theaters helped pay the rent. I hosted and produced two public access shows. I was Tom Green and Jake from Squirt TV with better production value. I had great guests on my show. I had the cast of Mad TV, Joan Rivers and Judy Gold on the show many times. I also booked tons of comics and cool bands including my pals Letters To Cleo. As the 90's came to an end I focused on writing and hosting. I co-hosted a national show called Treasures In Your Home with John Burke and Laurie Hibberd. I hosted red carpet movie events, most notably I was the main interviewer on Ellis Island for the X-Men premiere. I became Joan Rivers' in-studio writer on her syndicated radio show (long way from cue cards) and I wrote some other funny stuff for comic friends. I worked with Dan Zanes and helped him launch his kids music revolution. I wrote for At The Multiplex on HBO and produced a monthly variety show at Carolines Comedy Club. Soon after, I was burnt out and bored with New York City. To get inspired, I decided to move to Los Angeles...well, the stock market crash, all of my shows getting canceled and September 11th helped that decision. In Los Angeles I auditioned like crazy, moved in with my now ex-girlfriend and continued art directing for television. Ever see Girls Behaving Badly on Oxygen...I art directed all four seasons. Shock Video on HBO? Did that too. I also spent the fall of 2002 in France writing for a little show you may have heard of called Joe Millionaire on FOX. Around this time I started developing a show called Number One Single with Lisa Loeb. Two years later E! Entertainment picked it up and I spent the winter of 2005 in New York City making it happen. What else can I tell you? I've been the art director for both seasons of Mind Of Mencia on Comedy Central and I sold a pilot called 'Celebrity' to TV Land. Right this second I am producing a reality/doc for the group Shut Up Stella (look for webisodes on shutupstellaismyshit.com and an MTV series in 2007) developing a reality show for Kara DioGuardi and shooting an online reunion documentary for a popular 90's band. I have a production company with my friend Janet called Sixteen Blue (named after the Replacements song) to make all of these projects come together. I have listened to The Howard Stern Show every single day since 1983. I buy way too much music. I have an amazing girlfriend who is 100 times more talented and clever than I am. My sister Jamie rules. I wear black t shirts. I saw Andy Warhol walking in Soho in 1987. I've always had a thing for the female rockers...Pat, Ann, Nancy, Kay, Nina, Juliana, Z, Tennessee, Charlotte, Tanya, Lauren, Lisa, Liz, Stevie, Aimee, Kim and Anna to name a few... ok, now I have to go look at my itunes to see if I left any crushes off of the list...now I am looking at my library...damn, adult ADD has overtaken my 'about me' manifesto...Layout made by ohyeshidid at CreateBlog.com .
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