Jim Earl

Jim Earl

Jim Earl is a stage and radio comedian, comedy writer and cartoonist from California.

Earl received a degree in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984, and then he began his comedy career in the stand-up comedy team of "Lank and Earl" with his high school friend Barry Lank. He later became a writer for the "Daily Show" winning the 2001 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program" and a 2000 Peabody award. After leaving the show he wrote and performed for a number of Air America Radio's radio shows: The Randi Rhodes Show, Unfiltered with Lizz Winstead and Rachel Maddow and Morning Sedition where he performed his regular bits "War on Brains," "Rapture Watch," "Morning Remembrance," "Sammy the Stem Cell," "Todd Brad: Policy Analyst," and "The 5 W's Plus 3 of Journalism." His comedy for the former show is now available for download on his own site, [http://www.jimearl.com jimearl.com] . His latest project reunited Earl with former "Morning Sedition" host Marc Maron on the "Marc Maron Show" which premiered on Air America Radio on February 28, 2006 but which had its last show on July 14, 2006.

In December 2006, Earl went on to become head writer for the Friday ITch, a comedy-news program for nerds, broadcast on [http://www.techweb.com Techweb.com] . In 2007, Jim also became a staff writer for "TalkShow with Spike Feresten" on Fox TV.

External links

* [http://www.jimearl.com Jim Earl's personal web site, jimearl.com]
* [http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/live/team/jimearl Biography of Jim Earl] on The Randi Rhodes Show's web site
* [http://shows.airamericaradio.com/ms/bio Biography of Jim Earl] on the Morning Sedition web site
* [http://www.davidspark.com/photos/headshots/image_headshot1.html David Spark's site with two photos of "Lank and Earl"]
* [http://www.emmys.tv/awards/awardsearch.php?action=search_db&textPerson=Jim%20Earl&selectYearFrom=2001&selectYearTo=2001 Search results for 'Jim Earl'] on the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences web site showing his Emmy award
* [http://www.peabody.uga.edu/archives/search.html Search page for Peabody Awards] on the University of Georgia web site. (Search for "Daily Show" or "Jim Earl")


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