So far, Mark has done a One-Hour Comedy Central special “Don’t Be Yourself”, a Comedy Central HALF HOUR special, has appeared on TBS’s CONAN 6 times,  Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Showtime’s “Live at SXSW”, INSIDE AMY SCHUMER, TruTv, Best Week Ever, MTv, Last Comic Standing, @Midnight and released an album with Comedy Central records titled “Still Got It”

We always love telling people’s stories.  Everyone has a story and is on a unique journey. When you produce documentary content, you get an opportunity to meet people from all walks of life and get an unfiltered glimpse at individuals from all sorts of subcultures.  The world of comedy is unquestionably a highly unique subculture filled with eccentric characters from all walks of live.

Ed Hill’s first ever comedy special, originally slated to tape in March of 2020, received the COVID treatment. In his case, this meant a closed set for filming with just a handful of family and friends. They sit in a circle for the entirety of the set, AA-style, facing Hill. The Taiwanese Canadian comedian maximizes the emotional impact of this support group-type set up, and his hour is all the better for it. This isn’t a laugh-a-minute set, and that’s not Hill’s aim, either. He takes his time letting anecdotes unfurl themselves. Candy and Smiley is loosely structured around nuggets of wisdom Hill imparts about goodbyes, differences and other certainties of life. None of them are particularly earth-shattering, but most truths in life aren’t. Hill himself knows that well; he recalls vowing as a teenager that he’d be different from his parents, who themselves immigrated to Canada in search of a different life. No matter how much we try to separate ourselves from our origins, those inevitabilities catch up with us sooner or later.—Clare Martin

https://www.pastemagazine.com/comedy/best-of-the-year/best-comedy-specials-of-2021-so-far/#10-danny-jolles-six-parts

Proud to have directed, produced, filmed & edited this one-of-a-kind Covid-adapted comedy special – “Candy & Smiley” featuring hilarious comic and storyteller Ed Hill.

Candy & Smiley premiered on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Dish, DirectTV, Spectrum, Google Play and more on March 2nd 2021.  You can also listen to the album on SiriusXM, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora.

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Just finished the filming of comic Ed Hill’s comedy special “Candy & Smiley” – Ed is a fantastic comic and great storyteller. The show was originally slated for a big theater in March but obviously the pandemic forced the production to change course. The result was an very unique comedy show in front of an intimate audience. Now on to editing this one of a kind comedy piece. It is scheduled to be distributed by Comedy Dynamics.

Originally from Taiwan, Ed is an award winning comic who moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, thinking he was on vacation at his father’s discretion.

Since then, Ed has performed all over the world. He was voted “Best Vancouver Comedian of 2016” by West Ender Magazine, and “Best Vancouver Comedian of 2015” by West Ender Magazine and The Georgia Straight, and named “Comic to Watch” in 2018 by Reader’s Digest Magazine and in 2015 by Canadian Immigrant Magazine. He has also appeared on AXS TV’s “Gotham Comedy Live”, “Laughs” on FOX, TED talks, Bite TV’s “Stand up & Bite Me”, and XM Radio’s “Laugh Attack”. He was also invited to perform at the Just For Laughs Northwest Comedy Festival, Comedy Masala in Singapore, Live Comedy Club in Taiwan, the Hong Kong Comedy Festival, NXNE, San Francisco Comedy Festival, and many more.

Ed’s tweets have also been featured on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”, Buzzfeed, The Huffington Post, DOSE, and Distractify.

In this episode, Tony Hinchcliffe gives a little background on how the “Kill Tony” podcast / show developed and we get to see how “preparation meets opportunity” for a few up and coming comics.

Angelo has appeared at Just For Laughs and travelled the world as a headlining stand-up comic. In addition to appearing in film and television Angelo hosts “The Funny Greek” podcast. In this mini documentary, we got to spend some time with Angelo behind the scenes at the Yuk Yuks Calgary greenroom in between shows. Not only is Tsarouchas hilarious on stage but he is a great story-teller and warm personality off-stage as well.

Behind-the-scenes content always provides insight into what a sub-culture is like and provides an opportunity to see authentic moments that are often both genuine and humorous.

In this video road comics Angelo Tsarouchas and Noel Elgrably hang out a the ‘Comic’s Condo’ while performing at Rick Bronson’s The Comic Strip in Edmonton Canada.

In this piece the comics are having a morning coffee – around noon – after a late night show. Topics include, helping out fellow comics trying to make it, life on the road, the different scope of shows and audiences, getting a greencard, Canadian women, and craving cigars.

We look forward to the opportunity to cover a wide variety of eclectic comics, highlighting their diverse journeys and stories.  The world of comedy is rich with many compelling individuals. They are all on unique paths and the opportunity to chronicle these tales will definitely help us attain our goal of telling absorbing narratives with captivating visuals.

Jake Hirsch is a hard-charging manager with a diverse roster of talent.  He has his pulse on the comedy industry and in addition masterfully cultivating contacts with established headliners, club owners, and prominent Hollywood executives, Hirsch is known for his strong work ethic and integrity within the comedy community.  Partnering with Hirsch will undoubtedly provide access to a plethora of interesting comics and he will surely have strong strategic approach in marketing our material.

Rick Bronson is a veteran comic, who along with his wife Tammy, owns 3 successful comedy clubs, with a 4th on the way.  Rick has “done it all and seen it all” when it comes to comedy.  In addition to touring extensively as a headlining comic, and hosting a travel show, his clubs have hosted  the industry’s top headliners including: Bert Kreischer,  Ali Wong, Russell Peters, Iliza Shlesinger, Anthony Jeselnik, Brent Morin, Hannibal Buress, Justin Willman, Theo Von,  Michael Che, Jo Koy,  Ari Shaffir,  Marlon Wayans, Moshe Kasher,  Gilbert Gottfried, Kevin Nealon, Norm MacDonald, T.J. Miller, Damon Wayans, Kevin Pollack, Marc Maron, Tom Green, Nikki Glaser, Debra Digiovanni, Caroline Rhea, and many more. ​​​​​​​  As both an established performer and club owner, Bronson will be a fantastic asset in coming up with creative content and enabling access to various comics and clubs.

We have had the opportunity to work with both Hirsch and Bronson on our initial comedy projects and these experiences fueled our mutual enthusiasm to create ongoing doc-style content.  We plan on shooting broadcast shows, digital series, feature-length documentaries, live shows and events, as well as social media content.