Industry Standard w/ Barry Katz

JULIE SEABAUGH grew up on a farm and discovered stand-up when Dave Attell performed during her senior year at the University of Missouri, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism. In 2003, after moving to New York City, Seabaugh launched her earliest independent effort into comedy journalism with the online magazine, Two Drink Minimum. A career with alt-weeklies followed, with stops across the country from the Village Voice in NYC to the Riverfront Times in St. Louis, Las Vegas Weekly and LA Weekly. In 2018, she published her first book, Ringside at Roast Battle: The First Five Years of L.A.’s Fight Club for Comedians, and her love of Mitch Hedbergled to producing/hosting 2020’s Hope on Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History for SiriusXM’s Comedy Central Channel. In this episode, Seabaugh talks about her latest project, co-directing and producing the documentary Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11, which premieres on VICE TV on Sept. 8, just before the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took down the World Trade Center. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

LANCE BURTON is widely considered by his peers to be the greatest stage magician of the past century. Born in Louisville, KY, his first break came in a debut appearance on the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” and through the course of Burton’s career he was invited back for a total of ten appearances while Johnny was host and another ten appearances during Jay Leno’s tenure. Additionally, Lance has racked up appearances on Letterman, Leno, The View, Ferguson, The World’s Greatest Magic, Hollywood Squares, and guest starring roles on “Knight Rider’ and “Las Vegas.” In 1996, Lance Burton’s first TV special, “Lance Burton Master Magician; The Legend Begins,” aired on NBC and was quickly followed by a series of 4 TV specials. He also hosted specials for the history channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, The Family Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, The Family Channel, and many more. While successful on TV, Burton’s greatest accomplishments have been made in live performance, working primarily in Las Vegas, performing an astounding fifteen thousand shows in his 30-year career. His longest running show, “Lance Burton Master Magician,” opened at the brand new Monte Carlo Hotel in The Lance Burton Theater. This was the first time any entertainer in the history of Las Vegas has a theater built and named for him… and ran for 14 years. Throughout his career, Burton received numerous awards and accolades from his peers including in 1980 as the fist magician to be awarded the gold medal from the International Brotherhood of Magicians, in 1982 as the first American and youngest magician to win the Grand Prix (World Championship) from The Federation Internationale Societes Des Magiques, and The Academy of Magical Arts (Ama) has honored Lance with awards many times, including; Best Stage Magician of the year (twice). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

LANCE BURTON is widely considered by his peers to be the greatest stage magician of the past century. Born in Louisville, KY, his first break came in a debut appearance on the “Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” and through the course of Burton’s career he was invited back for a total of ten appearances while Johnny was host and another ten appearances during Jay Leno’s tenure. Additionally, Lance has racked up appearances on Letterman, Leno, The View, Ferguson, The World’s Greatest Magic, Hollywood Squares, and guest starring roles on “Knight Rider’ and “Las Vegas.” In 1996, Lance Burton’s first TV special, “Lance Burton Master Magician; The Legend Begins,” aired on NBC and was quickly followed by a series of 4 TV specials. He also hosted specials for the history channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, The Family Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, The Family Channel, and many more. While successful on TV, Burton’s greatest accomplishments have been made in live performance, working primarily in Las Vegas, performing an astounding fifteen thousand shows in his 30-year career. His longest running show, “Lance Burton Master Magician,” opened at the brand new Monte Carlo Hotel in The Lance Burton Theater. This was the first time any entertainer in the history of Las Vegas has a theater built and named for him… and ran for 14 years. Throughout his career, Burton received numerous awards and accolades from his peers including in 1980 as the fist magician to be awarded the gold medal from the International Brotherhood of Magicians, in 1982 as the first American and youngest magician to win the Grand Prix (World Championship) from The Federation Internationale Societes Des Magiques, and The Academy of Magical Arts (Ama) has honored Lance with awards many times, including; Best Stage Magician of the year (twice). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

KIMRIE LEWIS is an actress, director, comedian, and writer. She is best known for playing Poppy Banks on the ABC comedy "Single Parents" and had a recurring role as reporter Ashley Davidson on "Scandal." She appeared as Meg in "Peeples" with Kerry Washington, Craig Robinson and David Alan Grier and recurred in the ABC Family drama series "Chasing Life" as Madeline. Lately, she can be seen in the sitcom "Kenan" on NBC. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

KIMRIE LEWIS is an actress, director, comedian, and writer. She is best known for playing Poppy Banks on the ABC comedy "Single Parents" and had a recurring role as reporter Ashley Davidson on "Scandal." She appeared as Meg in "Peeples" with Kerry Washington, Craig Robinson and David Alan Grier and recurred in the ABC Family drama series "Chasing Life" as Madeline. Lately, she can be seen in the sitcom "Kenan" on NBC. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MIKE ROYCE is best known as of the executive producers of “Everyone Loves Raymond.” He started as a stand-up comedian in New York City and continued that path for 12 years and became a fixture at the comedy cellar and all the other clubs, appearing on a bevy of television shows, including NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” for several years, he was also the warm-up comedian for a diverse array of shows including “The Dana Carvey Show,” “The Maury Povich Show,” “Viva Variety,” and “Spin City.” in the late nineties, Mike was a staff writer for MTV’s “apt. 2-f” starring the Sklar brothers, and hired by legendary showrunner Bill Lawrence to pen an episode of “Spin City.” he joined forces with Ray Romano for the first time to help write his new york times bestseller “Everything and a Kite.” later on that year Mike wrote the ‘Sportscenter’ sketch for ray’s “Saturday Night Live” appearance, which was named one of the ‘50 greatest SNL sketches of all time’ by rolling stone. Mike joined the writing staff of “Everybody Loves Raymond” in 1999 and won the best comedy emmy in both 2003 and 2005. Post-Raymond, Mike partnered with Louis C.K., serving as executive producer and showrunner of HBO's first ever sitcom, “Lucky Louie” and in 2008, mike co-created TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” with Ray Romano, serving again as executive producer and showrunner. In addition to glowing critical notices, the show won the prestigious Peabody award in 2011, as well as the TV academy ‘honors award for programming’ that inspires, informs, motivates, and has the power to change lives.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As a 40 year comedy vet, Rick Overton has starred in numerous HBO and Showtime specials and has had countless TV stand up appearances. He played The Drake on “Seinfeld” and Pam’s Dad on “The Office.” He currently recurs on Adult Swim’s “Children Hospital,” ABC’s “Last Man Standing,” TNT’s “Leverage” and recently guest starred on “The League,” “The Middle,” “The Kroll Show,” and “Newsreaders.” Rick has also guested on classic TV series like “Lost,” “E.R.,” “Made About You” and “Married With Children.” On the big screen, he has worked with A-list directors like Ron Howard, Chris Columbus, Harold Ramis, Jay Roach, and Steven Soderbergh, with roles in films like “Bad Teacher,” “The Informant,” “Dinner for Schmucks,” “Cloverfield,” “Groundhog Day,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” and “Willow.” He also has an Emmy Award for writing on HBO’s “Dennis Miller Live.” Rick is currently a semi-regular contributor to the Huffington Post and hosts a popular podcast called “Overview” that is available on iTunes. His latest completely improvised special, "Set List" was released in June of 2021, and is available on Amazon Prime video, Apple TV and Youtube. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As a 40 year comedy vet, Rick Overton has starred in numerous HBO and Showtime specials and has had countless TV stand up appearances. He played The Drake on “Seinfeld” and Pam’s Dad on “The Office.” He currently recurs on Adult Swim’s “Children Hospital,” ABC’s “Last Man Standing,” TNT’s “Leverage” and recently guest starred on “The League,” “The Middle,” “The Kroll Show,” and “Newsreaders.” Rick has also guested on classic TV series like “Lost,” “E.R.,” “Made About You” and “Married With Children.” On the big screen, he has worked with A-list directors like Ron Howard, Chris Columbus, Harold Ramis, Jay Roach, and Steven Soderbergh, with roles in films like “Bad Teacher,” “The Informant,” “Dinner for Schmucks,” “Cloverfield,” “Groundhog Day,” “Mrs. Doubtfire,” and “Willow.” He also has an Emmy Award for writing on HBO’s “Dennis Miller Live.” Rick is currently a semi-regular contributor to the Huffington Post and hosts a popular podcast called “Overview” that is available on iTunes. His latest completely improvised special, "Set List" was released in June of 2021, and is available on Amazon Prime video, Apple TV and Youtube. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

MIKE ROYCE is best known as of the executive producers of “Everyone Loves Raymond.” He started as a stand-up comedian in New York City and continued that path for 12 years and became a fixture at the comedy cellar and all the other clubs, appearing on a bevy of television shows, including NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” for several years, he was also the warm-up comedian for a diverse array of shows including “The Dana Carvey Show,” “The Maury Povich Show,” “Viva Variety,” and “Spin City.” in the late nineties, Mike was a staff writer for MTV’s “apt. 2-f” starring the Sklar brothers, and hired by legendary showrunner Bill Lawrence to pen an episode of “Spin City.” he joined forces with Ray Romano for the first time to help write his new york times bestseller “Everything and a Kite.” later on that year Mike wrote the ‘Sportscenter’ sketch for ray’s “Saturday Night Live” appearance, which was named one of the ‘50 greatest SNL sketches of all time’ by rolling stone. Mike joined the writing staff of “Everybody Loves Raymond” in 1999 and won the best comedy emmy in both 2003 and 2005. Post-Raymond, Mike partnered with Louis C.K., serving as executive producer and showrunner of HBO's first ever sitcom, “Lucky Louie” and in 2008, mike co-created TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” with Ray Romano, serving again as executive producer and showrunner. In addition to glowing critical notices, the show won the prestigious Peabody award in 2011, as well as the TV academy ‘honors award for programming’ that inspires, informs, motivates, and has the power to change lives.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

TONY COX has been featured in a wide range of amazing projects, spanning some 30 years and has put him alongside some of the most respected directors and distinguished actors of our time. Tony’s box office successes have led to a total worldwide gross of over $1 billion, with scene stealing roles In the films “Bad Santa,” “Star Wars,” “Me, Myself and Irene,” “Date Movie,” “Disaster Movie,” “Beetlejuice,” “The Warrior’s Way,” And “Oz The Great And Powerful” just to name a few. He has also been featured prominently in hit TV shows like “Rescue Me” And “Martin,” as well as music videos with respected artists like Eminem, The Foo Fighters, and Snoop Dog. He is perhaps best-known for his lead role in Bad Santa, where he played Marcus, the brains of a safe cracking team, alongside Billy Bob Thornton, and for reprising his iconic role for Bad Santa 2. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.