Six Degrees – October Catch Up

Welcome to the ‘Six Degrees Catch Up Edition’ featuring all the latest happenings and goings on in the world of ‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert Report’ staff and ‘Friends of the Show’.

In this month’s catch up we have interviews from ‘The Daily Shows’ Dan McCoy, Matt Koff, Samantha Bee, Elliott Kalan’s mother Abby and ‘Night of Too Many Stars’ Robert Smigel. Daniel Radosh and Tim Carvell play ‘Person, Place or Thing’, Steve Carell’s has sold a new show to Fox, Trevor Potter writes on the lack of knowledge regarding money in politics, and Jon Stewart has some not – so helpful advice for the latest edition to the late night family, Pete Holmes.

The Colbert Report

  • Trevor Potter writes about the lack of knowledge when it comes to money in politics in The Washington Post.

The Daily Show

  • Jon Stewart gives former ‘Daily Show’ staffer, Pete Holmes some friendly advice ahead of the premiere of his new talk show ‘The Pete Holmes Show’ on TBS.
  • Before hitting it big with jobs on ‘The Daily Show’ writing staff, Dan McCoy and Matt Koff worked on the ‘9am Meeting’, a ‘semi-absurdist animated work place comedy’. The writing duo talk about their early years in the industry on Channel 101.
  • Dan McCoy and Hallie Haglund join J.R. Havlan on the ‘Writers’ Bloc Podcast’ give their unsolicited opinions on sitcom premieres from the upcoming season, including ‘The Crazy Ones’, ‘The Michael J. Fox Show’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’, ‘Eastbound and Down’, ‘Hello Ladies’ and ‘Super Fun Night’.
  • Daniel Radosh and Zhubin Parang join J.R. Havlan on the ‘Writers’ Bloc Podcast’ to review some of this seasons new sitcoms including ‘Dads’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’, ‘Mom’, ‘The Goldbergs’, and ‘Back in the Game’.
  • Daniel Radosh and Tim Carvell play ‘Person, Place or Thing’.
  • Elliott Kalan’s mother, Abby talks to the Madison Eagle about supporting her sons career as a comedy writer.
  • Rory Albanese has signed a double blind script development deal with Warner Bros TV and has sold one project under the pact — a father-son multi-camera comedy — to CBS.
  • Samantha Bee talks to ‘On the Town’ about talking to dead people, which ‘Daily Show’ correspondent she’d most likely eat, and about her show ‘An Evening with Samantha Bee: My Life as a Daily Show Correspondent and Other Misadventures.’

Friends of the Show

  • Steve Carell and Shine America have sold an unscripted series to Fox, which has picked up ‘eight episodes of international format ‘Slide Show’, an unscripted effort that pits two teams — featuring celebrities and comedians — against each other in a series of showdowns, testing mind and body. Throughout the game, competitors must think on their feet as teams face unpredictable song, dance and sketch challenges while navigating the show’s one-of-a-kind set that’s tilted at a 22.5-degree angle’.