Sometimes In Business You Laugh Until It Hurts | Comedy Central Founder Art Bell | 279
How would you like a window into the world of television production? Think forming a comedy network is all laughs and fun? Think again. Art Bell, one of the founders of Comedy Central shares the inside BS of starting a cable network.
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Would you like a window into the world of television production? Think forming a comedy network is all laughs and fun? Think again. Art Bell, one of the founders of Comedy Central shares the inside BS of starting a cable network.
About Art Bell:
https://www.artbellwriter.com/
Art Bell is a writer and former media executive known for creating, building, and managing successful cable television channels. His memoir, Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor was just published (September 2020, Ulysses Press). While working at HBO he pitched the idea of a 24-hour comedy network which he helped develop and launch. Art went on to hold senior executive positions in both programming and marketing at Comedy Central. During that time he also coauthored a humor book entitled Web Sightings: A Collection of Websites We’d Like to See.
After leaving Comedy Central, Art became President of Court TV, where he was a guiding force behind one of the most successful brand evolutions in cable television. In addition to writing, he plays piano and jazz drums. Art Bell currently resides in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Deer Valley, Utah, with his wife. Find out more about Art Bell at Art Bell, Writer.
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