About the Actor
Mohr s career spans over two decades in comedy, television, radio, and film ... from his beginnings as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, to over 200 television appearances, to his expansive film career in over 30 feature films co-starring opposite 13 Oscar winners, including his classical break out performance as sports agent Bob Sugar opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire and most recently as Matt Damon s brother in Clint Eastwood s critically acclaimed Hereafter. Presently he has his own syndicated radio show 5 days a week ( Jay Mohr Sports ) and one of the biggest podcasts in the world with over 25 million downloads ( Mohr Stories ).
About the Director
With a career in entertainment that spans over two decades, Scott Montoya began as a producer and talent manager. In 2009, Montoya returned to his producing roots and added directing to his already impressive repertoire: at this writing he has produced and directed just over 80 Stand-Up Comedy Specials for Network Broadcast and his primary focuses is directing and producing stand-up comedy films. In 1996, Montoya established his English speaking, Latino based comedy production and talent company, Payaso Productions. Through Payaso, he produced Paramount Pictures hit; The Original Latin Kings of Comedy (2002) and followed that up with; The Payaso Comedy Slam, The Original Latin Divas of Comedy and Alex Reymundo s Hick-Spanick (2006-07). Montoya won an Alma Award for Hick-Spanic. In 2008, Montoya produced and directed the series Comics Without Borders (9 episodes) hosted By Russell Peters for Showtime and Willie Barcena s Deal With It for Comedy Central. In 2010, Montoya established LOLComedy Inc, and has allowed Montoya to evolve from producing and directing niche market themed stand-up comedy shows to developing more broad based and original mainstream stand-up comedy content such as the recent stand-up comedy films; Brad Williams: Fun Size, Jay Mohr s second special, Happy. And A lot., Andrew Dice Clay Presents The Blue Show all filmed during the Santa Barbara LOL Comedy Festival. Other mainstream specials include GSN s Idiot Test host and comedian Ben Gleib: No Filter, CBS s Rush Hour Kirk Fox: That Guy,Bobcat Goldthwait: You Don t Look The Same Either, Snoop Dogg Presents the Bad Girls of Comedy, Andrew Dice Clay s Indestructible, Jay Mohr: Funny For A Girl, Tommy Chong Comedy at 420, Anthony Clark: Ambigous, Bill Bellamy s Crazy Sexy Dirty, and Lady s Night Out, and the late Joan Rivers last special Don t Get Me Started to name just a few, all having premiered on Showtime. Although mainstream cross over has been a big part of the strategy, Scott has not stopped producing Latino themed Stand-Up Comedy Specials having also produced; Felipe Esparza s (winner of Last Comic Standing) first special after his win called They re Not Going To Laugh At You, Alex Reymundos second special Red-Nexican, Willie Barcena s second special, I Gotta Be Honest, Steve Trevino s first special Grandpa Joe s Son, Monique Marvez s first special Not Skinny Not Blonde Kiki Melendez Hot Tamales Live, The 3 Non Juan s starring; Johnny Sanchez, Al Madrigal and Carlos Alazraqui,The American Indian Comedy Slam, the series LOL Comedy Festival 13 half hours for Showtime which also included , Joey Medina s Taking Off The gloves, Rick Najera s Daddy Diaries and Bill Santiago s Spanglish. Finally the first Legally Brown show hosted by Tony Plana, featuring Cristela Alonzo, Alex Reymundo and Willie Barcena. Montoya has supplied more than 50% of the stand-up comedy specials for Showtime Networks' 12 month long LOL Comedy Series for the past four years. in 2013 Montoya established lolflix Stand-Up Comedy Films and lolflix.com as a new way to distribute stand-up comedy films directly to viewers. As well as presenting ad supported original content for free to viewers. This work is still in progress.
