Work

Every screen it moved to.

The same job, done in every era of it.

Neal Brennan with Fortune Feimster and Tom Papa in the What A Joke studio

Netflix Is A Joke RadioRunning now

What A Joke with Papa & Fortune

A daily comedy show, made every weekday with Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster. Guests have included Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Eric André and Neal Brennan. Daily is the hardest cadence there is. Nothing tests whether a show has a real operating system behind it like having to make another one tomorrow.

Executive Producer & showrunner

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa cover art

Audio & YouTubeRunning now

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

Tom Papa brought me in to double his audience across audio and YouTube: the show, the clips, and the numbers behind both. Weekly, and I’m back on it as of August 2026.

Executive Producer & showrunner

Taylor Tomlinson on the Are You Still Listening? set

SiriusXM GarageRunning now

Are You Still Listening?

A monthly stand-up show, staged live at the SiriusXM Garage. Taylor Tomlinson hosted it for a couple of years.

Executive Producer

Netflix Is A Joke Radio

NetflixRunning now

Netflix Is A Joke Radio

Netflix had stand-up specials to market and didn't want advertising. The answer was programming: a whole channel on SiriusXM, built around the specials, with original shows and audio-visual programming made to be worth someone's time on its own. 1,200+ episodes and counting. It's the largest brand partnership I run, and it's exactly the thing a brand gets when it wants a show of its own.

Runs the channel

Nate Bargatze on My Favorite Thing

Netflix Is A Joke Radio

My Favorite Thing

The golf show, hosted by Nate Bargatze. Shot on location and built for video as much as audio. Proof the operation travels, because making a show is a different job when the studio is a fairway.

Executive Producer & showrunner · Streaming & YouTube

Hobo Fabulous key art

Streaming

Hobo Fabulous

Craig and I decided to just go and make it ourselves, so we did. Six episodes built around his real touring life, part stand-up special and part tour documentary, made independently and sold afterwards.

Director, Writer, Executive Producer · Now available on YouTube

Joe Bolter and Craig Ferguson

Over a decade

Creative Partnership with Craig Ferguson

For over a decade, I was Craig Ferguson's closest creative and operational partner across late night, radio, stand-up, live television and touring. That relationship endured because I understood the job: understand Craig's voice, protect it, and communicate it clearly to everyone else.

  • Join or Die with Craig FergusonHistory · Executive Producer
  • Stand-up specialsEPIX & Netflix · Producer & writer
  • Red Nose DayNBC · Writer & producer

Creative and operational partner · Every era

Craig Ferguson dancing with Secretariat, the show's pantomime horseThat’s me

CBS

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

I came up through late night, the room the podcast is descended from. Secretariat was the show's pantomime horse.

Where it started · Network Television

Need to talk to me?

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Showrunner. Producer. Director.