I was in the Groundlings main company doing sketches. A girlfriend of mine named Judy Toll, who went on to become a writer on “Sex and the City” and was a really funny comedian, was in the Groundlings but was also doing sets at The Comedy Store, founded by Mitzi Shore. I was doing a kind of stand-up at the Groundlings, and people there like Judy and Lisa Kudrow told me that they thought I would be better at stand-up than sketch comedy, because I would tell these personal, kind of unique stories. But I was scared to try a comedy club. It’s such a different environment than the Groundlings Theatre, which was a 99-seat theater with no bar. But Judy said, “Let me see if I can talk to Mitzi and if I can get you a good, respectable, 10- to 15-minute audition slot.”
So I went with Judy to the Store,...
So I went with Judy to the Store,...
- 4/17/2018
- by Kathy Griffin
- Variety Film + TV
Ryan Seacrest is expanding his relationship with NBC. The American Idol and Million Second Quiz host's Ryan Seacrest Productions has sold a comedy to the network, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. From ABC Studios, single-camera comedy Me and My Needs revolves around a daytime talk producer who tackles the oddities and extremes of looking for love in New York. The late Judy Toll (Sex and the City) penned the original script -- which was inspired by her own life -- along with Cynthia Greenburg. Comedian-writer Toll, a Groundlings alum who often chronicled her search for love in her comedy, passed
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- 8/23/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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