Serious Business is a full-service media production and development company specializing in scripted and unscripted comedy across TV, film and digital entertainment. Since we started in 2011 our focus has been on creating lasting formats like the Emmy-winning “@midnight” which ran for 600 episodes on Comedy Central and we recently reimagined that show to create CBS’s “After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson” which we Executive Produced 200 episodes of. Proudly spanning mediums, our most recent scripted project was two seasons of the animated sitcom Fairfax for Amazon Prime. Both when working on our own original ideas or when partnering with some of the brightest lights in comedy on theirs, we bring a strong viewpoint to our projects that combines creativity and business prowess. vide between Digital Entertainment and Traditional Media.


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Jason U. Nadler


A fan of swap meets, delis, funk music, the one-handed backhand and Tom Sturgis Pretzels, Jason got his LA start pushing a mail-cart at United Talent Agency. He helped to launch and eventually lead UTA’s Online Department where he was the first traditional Hollywood agent to identify and represent emerging talent on the web. After leaving UTA to start Serious Business, he’s found his happy home innovating and collaborating in the creative trenches. He’s been described by some as “a wise mix of the sacred and the profane.”

Work

After Midnight

Serious Business reimagined the format from their previous show @midnight for CBS and in partnership with Stephen Colbert’s Spartina Productions created a breakout original format for traditional late-night television that featured the amazing Taylor Tomlinson making her TV hosting debut alongside a nightly rotation of today’s biggest stars riffing on the odd state of the world viewed through the lens of social media. Most recently the format was developed for the domestic German market.

Variety | LateNighter

Fairfax

Animation sounded fun, so we partnered with incredible writers, artists, and actors to create two seasons for Amazon of a fantastical homage to the epicenter of LA’s Hypebeast culture through the journey of 4 middle-schoolers who called Fairfax home.

Deadline | Hollywood Reporter | Bleeding Cool

Problematic
Comedy Central's thoughtful and ambitious topical comedic talk show that ran in 2017, Moshe Kasher delved into the middle of the biggest social and political debates happening online. 

Variety

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Trump vs Bernie
Created by and starring master impressionists and improvisers Anthony Atamanuik (Trump) and James Adomian (Bernie); Trump vs. Bernie is a bitingly satirical two part election special that aired on Fusion in Summer 2016 and was the highest rated comedy program in network history.

Deadline  |  LA Times

@midnight
The two-time Emmy winning Comedy Central late-night staple “@midnight with Chris Hardwick” ran for 600 Episodes and was Co-Created and Executive Produced by Serious Business.

Comedy Central  |  Splitsider

Awards

2015-2016 — Primetime Emmy Awards, Social TV Experience (@midnight)

2014-2015 — Primetime Emmy Awards, Social TV Experience (@midnight)

WINNER


2014-2015 — Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Interactive Program (@midnight)

2013-2014 — Primetime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Interactive Program (@midnight)

2012-2013 — Primetime Emmy Awards, Social TV Experience (Braindex)

 

NOMINATED

Contact

Agency Contact

WME
Ryan McNeily
(310) 285-9000