Craig Glazer Talks The Future Of Comedy

TKC Note: Interesting, I didn't know Craig was a client of the legendary CAA founded by Hollywood shark Michael Ovitz and one of the first companies to incorporate The Art Of War by Sun Tzu into their biz philosophy. Here's Craig's weekend note: 

Dan Soder: The Guy Code

If you’re like me, and fell in love with Chris Pine as a leading man when you saw him playing Jim Kirk in the Star Trek remake a couple years ago, then Dan Soder is your guy. Soder is one of the young, hot comics that Stanfords is presenting to Kansas City for the first time as we have the other top ten comics from the Montreal Comedy Festival over the last several months. Dan is somewhat unique in that not only is he very funny, but has that rare movie star manly presence. In other words, if he were in a film, be it a comedy or a drama, and he threw a punch and hit someone, you’d believe it.

Unlike most thirty year olds, Soder knows who John Wayne, Paul Newman, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin are. That’s cool right there. Dan does a lot of material on how living in New York is not so bad, and why he really hates Hollywood, though he works there often. Soder is originally from San Francisco but most of his comedy career was built in Denver where he came up with comedy sensation TJ Miller.

The last three years of his comedy career have been on fire with three television shows including The Guy Code, Red Eye and Mansome. Just this past March he did his first appearance on Conan. He followed that with his first Comedy Central half hour special. Comedy Central has signed him to an animated TV series which is in the works now.

We’ve tried harder than most top clubs all around America to bring in the top young stars this past year including Nick Vatterott, Brent Morin, Rory Scovel and now Dan Soder, to name a few. What these comics have in common is that they are all fresh faces in television shows that will dominate the ha-ha landscape over the last several years. Two years ago we introduced you to many others including Nikki Glaser, Iliza Shlesinger, TJ Miller and Jim Jeffries. We all know how their careers are going today. Miller is the new Adam Sandler; the others all have their own television series.

There have been many others. What is often disturbing is that people will often comment that we are bringing back a name like ‘Screech’, Michael Winslow or Jimmy ‘JJ’ Walker again. We do that because there is a demand to see these entertainers just like there is a demand to see fresh young comedy faces. With that said, it’s much harder to sell the new guys even though they have many TV and movie credits due to the market being so unfocused with hundreds of TV Channels, the Internet and Social Media.

Because I am a client of Creative Artists Agency, the biggest talent agency in the world, Stanfords is often given the first opportunity at these new, young stars because they represent most of them.

You need to see these young fresh stars early on because when they explode, like Jim Jeffries did, they move from the comedy club circuit to the arena circuit much faster than they used to. So try and get out this weekend to see one of these young guns, Dan Soder. If you heard him on radio this week I am sure you were as impressed as I was. If you are a Jim Jeffries fan, his management is supplying us with the next two phenoms from the UK and Down Under, coming this fall. Just call us at (913)400-7500 for tickets and more information.

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