The Fear of What Will People Think of Me

Doug McIntyre spent twenty-years as a television/screen writer and producer including the hit series Married… With Children, WKRP in Cincinnati, Mike Hammer – Private Eye, and the critically-acclaimed PBS series, Liberty’s Kids, which earned Doug a Humanitas Prize nomination for excellence in television writing. Together with his wife Penny Peyser, Doug wrote, produced, directed the award winning film: Trying to Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon. McIntyre is also the page one columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and the Lang Newspaper group as well as an accomplished book reviewer. In 2010 he was named “Best Columnist” by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Additionally, Doug has written for American History Illustrated, LA Jazz Scene, the L.A. Times, Long Beach Press Telegram, Pasadena Star News and the Connecticut Post. He co-authored Cheap Advice for Time/Warner Books. Doug hosted McIntyre in the Morning on Talk Radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles, and the wildly popular Red Eye Radio. Doug appeared on Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect over a dozen times, as well as, Real Time on HBO, The History Channel, the FOX News Channel’s hit shows, The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, and numerous appearances on CNN. The radio trade magazine Talkers consistently ranks McIntyre among the top hosts in the business.