Funny people need apply
By Paige Albiniak -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/16/2002 4:00:00 AM
NBC continues to add to its growing reality slate, picking up eight episodes of comic-search show Funniest Person in America, to air in the spring or summer of 2003.
The show's producers will search the country for 10 comedians who will then live together while they compete for a prime time development deal on NBC.
Funniest Person will be hosted by comedian and writer Jay Mohr, formerly of the now-canceled Mohr Sports on ESPN and once a cast member on Saturday Night Live.
Mohr also helped to create the show, and he will executive-produce along with Peter Engel.
'In watching numerous reality shows, I realized that the people most deserving of at least 15 minutes of fame are comedians,' Mohr said.
'This show is a wonderful opportunity to give a much-deserved 'big break' to the hardest-working people in show business that I know.'
Brittany Levin, director of creative affairs for Peter Engel Productions, and Jamila Hunter, director of alternative series for NBC, were also instrumental in developing the program.
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