Variety’s Post

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I'd grown up in New York, but watched enough Beverly Hillbillies Dragnet and Barbara Eden in a bikini to know California was the place for me. It was fantastic and just as expected. Sunburnt and sold on California, I returned to New York and by the chance the next day ran into my child's friend, Paul Provenza. Who had two just returned from California. And there and then we decided to ditch the subways and yellow snow for sun kissed beaches and show business. Paul was a working stand up. And the comedy scene in LA was raising. I was wearing a three piece suit, working at Price Waterhouse by day, hanging out with comics at the Improv and laughing until my eyes bled at night. It was way too much fun and it didn't take long for me to realize I need a job. Or I could ditch the suit and work around funny people. Soon thereafter, I left Price Waterhouse and went to work for Jess Morgan, a formative business management firm founded in 1967. I'd hit the lottery, I'd loved what I did, I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up, and after a few years of Jess Morgan, decided it was time to try this myself.