| WATCH LIST, THE (COMEDY CENTRAL)
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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
5/29/07
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STATUS:
previously in development (2007-2008 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to pilot |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
7-10 minute presentation |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Comedy Central's press release) "The Watch List" is a sketch/variety show that features material from some of the funniest up-and-coming Middle Eastern-American comedians. The show fuses a unique worldview with political satire to create edgy, intelligent, race-based comedy. Stand-up comic Dean Obeidallah (co-founder of the Arab-American Comedy Festival) and Emmy-winning writer Max Brooks ("Saturday Night Live") are the series' creators and producers. Having originally premiered as an original series on comedycentral.com, "The Watch List" is first broadband series that COMEDY CENTRAL has taken to pilot for a potential slot on the network's linear line-up. |
CREW INFORMATION:
· Dean Obeidallah as CRTR/EP
· Max Brooks as CRTR/EP
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GENRE(S):
· comedy (all)
· comedy (improv/sketch)
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· no information is available
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