Episode 9 of Jett Road Studios Presents is the pilot for Lady Killers, a scripted comedy series created and written by Kristine Kimmel. The show follows the misadventures of M.J. (Kristine Kimmel) and Annie (Julie Brister), cohosts of the true crime podcast Lady Killers. After a challenging (and humbling) period of working in the TV business, M.J. is now back at home in the Midwest, making a podcast out of her mother's (Pam Murphy) laundry room. The recording session is interrupted when M.J.'s husband Bill (Joel Spence) loses part of his thumb, and has to go to the hospital, where he makes a shocking discovery. Kimberly Clark rounds out the excellent cast as Kara, M.J. and Annie's manager. Directed by Jessie Gaskell. Lady Killers theme song by Brynna Campbell.

LADY KILLERS: Cast

Kristine Kimmel - M.J.

Julie Brister - Annie

Pam Murphy - M.J.'s Mom

Joel Spence - Bill

Kimberly Clark - Kara

LADY KILLERS: Crew

Kristine Kimmel - Creator / Writer

Julie Brister - Producer

Jessie Gaskell - Director

Amber Becton - Executive Producer

Will Becton - Producer / Engineer

Brynna Campbell - Composer

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Episode 8 of Jett Road Studios Presents is the pilot for GENeration miXed, hosted by Eddie Gorton. The podcast explores what it is like growing up mixed in America. Eddie Gorton is an elementary school principal and stand-up comedian, who is a part of The Loving Generation, a baby boom of mixed-race children born between 1967 and 1980. His father was black, and his mother was white, but he grew up in an all-white household, with little guidance of how to navigate the world as a black male in the Bay Area.

For the pilot, Eddie sits down with Ashley Rouse, who is the Executive Director of the Edible Schoolyard Project at the Alice Waters Institute for Edible Education in Berkeley, CA. Ashley was also born to a black father, and white mother. Ashley also grew up in an all-white household, and had many unanswered questions while growing up in Atlanta, GA. In the fascinating conversation that follows, Eddie and Ashley compare notes on growing up mixed in America, "before looking American was cool."

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Episode 7 of Jett Road Studios Presents is the pilot for THREE-DAY CHAMPION, "a storytelling podcast wrapped inside a game show," hosted by Christine Walters. Episode 1, "The Trucknuts of Behavior," features comedians Jon Gabrus, Andre Hyland, and Sarah Tiana as contestants, and comedy legend + gameshow aficionado Andy Richter as guest judge.

THREE-DAY CHAMPION is sprung from the best part of every tv game show – the contestant interviews. Each episode we ask a rotating cast of comedian friends, “if you were a returning three-day champion on a game show, which three stories from your life would you choose to tell?” Our hilarious guests compete in game show-style rounds of play to tell their three best personal stories. Host, Christine Walters and our celebrity guest judge crown the best storyteller as Three-Day Champion Champion!

Christine Walters is a writer, producer, and development executive for shows like Jon Glaser Loves Gear, Tacoma FD, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Will and Christine first met when both performed on house teams at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in the early 2000s.

Jett Road Studios Presents is a podcast hosted by Will & Amber Becton, and every episode is a pilot for a different show.

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Episode 6 of Jett Road Studio Presents delves into the True Crime genre with the pilot for the future hit series "Bad Elizabeth." The show features one notorious Elizabeth from History or Pop Culture per episode. Whether they are murderers, scammers, or just shitty people, your hosts Gideon Evans and Kathy Egan-Taylor will guide you through these sordid stories breezily, as if you overheard them at a cocktail party.

Gideon Evans and Kathy Egan-Taylor are old friends, but stress that they are definitely NOT old. They met while working on "TV Nation" with Michael Moore, and were office mates on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" (the first go-around). Evans and Egan-Taylor have a shared-love of gallows humor, and are judgmental in a fair way.

Our first Bad Elizabeth is the notorious TV writer Elisabeth Finch, who rose to prominence while working on the hit show Grey's Anatomy. The fact that Finch spells her first name with an "S" is bad enough, but the never-ending buffet of misdeeds she unleashed on those close to her is really something to behold. By the end of the episode Gideon and Kathy must decide if Elisabeth with an "s" Finch deserves the title of "Bad Elizabeth."

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Part one of Vanity Fair article about Elisabeth Finch

Part two of Elisabeth Finch article in Vanity Fair

Anatomy of Lies: Documentary about Elisabeth Finch

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Episode 5 of Jett Road Studios Presents is the pilot for History Around You, hosted by Krysta Gonzales. The show focuses on family stories that shed light on historical events, and tell a side of the story often glossed over in history book.

Krysta is originally from Texas, and for the pilot she interviews her mother and grandmother about the San Elizario Salt War, which took place in the El Paso area in the late 1800s. Krysta is a direct decent of Sisto Salcido, a key figure in the conflict. A recent conversation with her mother inspired Krysta to find out more about this important event in her family's history, and the resulting interview (recorded in neighboring Socorro, TX) preserves this valuable knowledge.

Krysta is an actor and writer who has voiced characters in films like Elemental and Inside Out 2. She and Amber Becton (co-host of Jett Road Studios Presents as well as a costume designer) met recently on a commercial shoot, where they bonded over their shared love of family history. In future episodes Krysta would interview other people with historically significant family stories to preserve.

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Episode 4 of Jett Road Studios Presents is the pilot for Cowbell, a podcast about sketch comedy hosted by veteran comedy writers Andrés du Bouchet (The Tonight Show, CONAN), and Tim Saccardo (Community, American Dad!). It is produced and engineered by Will Becton (Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, Life In Comedy).

In the pilot episode of Cowbell, Andrés and Tim are joined by actor and writer Paul Rust (Love, Inglourious Basterds, Saturday Night) to talk about his favorite comedy sketches of all time. Classic Sketches like The Fairsley Difference (Mr. Show), Taco Mailman (The State) and Toonces the Driving Cat (SNL) are discussed in detail, and hilarity ensues.

Andrés, Tim, and Paul are then joined by guest writers Andy Secunda (Late Night with Conan O'Brien) and Amanda Sitko (Brockmire) for a segment called Writers Room. They break down what makes a sketch work, and then pitch ideas to the room to demonstrate these concepts in action. It is a writers room without a show, where the show is the writers room.

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THE RABBIT HOLE!

IT’S RABBIT HOLE TIME! Here is a list of links to every single TV comedy sketch we talked about in the episode. We kept them in the order they were mentioned, no matter how briefly. In cases where we couldn’t find the sketch on YouTube, we included a link to some other source of video, and in cases where we couldn’t find video at all, we included a link to something else related to the sketch! Also, correction: it’s yellow snow, not line. 

NUT SPOON

PREPARATION H RAYMOND

STAR WARS TRIUMPH

THE INCREDIBLE MAN

DA WAR OF DA WOILDS

THE MOUSE PROBLEM

PRE-TAPED CALL-IN SHOW

WARRIOR WHO IS OBSESSED WITH WAHLBURGERS

ACTUAL ITEMS

TOMORRY THE OSTRICH

KISS ASS TURKEY

TACO MAILMAN

ED GRIMLY

HANS & FRANZ

TOONCES

UNFROZEN CAVEMAN LAWYER

THE FAIRSLEY DIFFERENCE

THE STORY OF EVEREST

SCHMITTS GAY

B MINUS TIME TRAVELER

24 IS THE HIGHEST NUMBER pt. 1

24 IS THE HIGHEST NUMBER pt. 2

24 IS THE HIGHEST NUMBER pt. 3

On Episode 3 of Jett Road Studios Presents, hosts Will & Amber Becton introduce a pilot for the podcast Pilot Lounge, hosted by Daily Show co-creator and original showrunner Madeleine Smithberg. In this podcast Madeleine reunites with past collaborators to revisit failed pilots they made together, in a fun and cathartic way.

In the first episode Madeleine talks to Marc Evan Jackson (The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Lauren Weedman (Hacks, Abbott Elementary), to talk about pilots they made for None Of Your Business, Little America, and The 5th Hour.

Madeleine Smithberg has produced countless pilots. After creating The Daily Show with Lizz Winstead (and hiring people like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Ed Helms), Madeleine spent years of her life creating and selling TV shows -- for example, a topical comedy show based on the internet for Al Gore's CURRENT TV, and a late night series for BET called DON'T SLEEP! -- but oftentimes her projects were never seen by the general public. These pilots would be watched by a few development executives, and then die a slow death as networks changed hands, or other circumstances beyond Madeleine's control conspired to keep these comedic gems hidden from the world. In Pilot Lounge, Madeleine seeks to reclaim the original comedic joy of making these shows with people she loves and admires.

None Of Your Business

Marc Evan Jackson

Shandi Finnessey

Zach Woods

Madeleine Smithberg (Executive Producer)

Sarah North (Executive Producer)

Janine Ditullio (Head Writer)

Eric Drysdale (Writer)

Eric Ledgin (Writer)

Little America

Marc Evan Jackson

Madeleine Smithberg (Executive Producer)

Sarah North (Executive Producer)

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The 5th Hour

Lauren Weedman

Molly Erdman

Ron Lynch

Phil Morris

Madeleine Smithberg (Executive Producer)

Sarah North (Executive Producer)

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On the second episode of Jett Road Studios Presents, hosts Will & Amber Becton introduce a pilot for the podcast Genius Revisited, hosted by Rob Kutner and Marlene Sharp. The podcast examines significant historical figures from the world of entertainment, politics, and culture through the modern lens of neurodiversity.

In the pilot episode Rob and Marlene welcome standup comedian Jeremiah Watkins, and autistic entertainment professional Chelsea Darnell, to discuss the legacy of the legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick is widely regarded as one of the most important directors in the history of cinema, but his behavior and tactics paint a picture of a complicated man. Was Kubrick's genius related to a condition like autism or ADHD? Or was he neurotypical? That is what is explored in this pilot episode of Genius Revisited.

Rob Kutner is a TV comedy writer and author, who has worked on shows like The Daily Show, and CONAN. Rob also co-produces the standup showcase Let It Out, A Show For Neurodivergent Audiences at The Laugh Factory.

Marlene Sharp works with groups like Autism In Entertainment, and Spectrum Laboratory to help autistic adults succeed in the world of entertainment.

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On the first episode of Jett Road Studios Presents, hosts Will & Amber Becton introduce a pilot for the podcast Read Through, which presents table reads of as-of-yet unproduced scripts. This episode features a script for the animated pilot Gawayne The Arrogant (of Orlando).

Larry Sullivan - Writer

Tim Saccardo - Show-runner

Andrés du Bouchet - Gawayne the Arrogant

Katherine Blanford - Crystal

Seth Morris - Leland

Dan Cronin - Colt Peppermill

Levi MacDougall - Jeremy

Julie Brister - Barb

Will Becton - Producer/Engineer

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Jett Road Studios Presents is a new podcast where every episode is a pilot for a different show, hosted by Will and Amber Becton. In this teaser we hear a clip from Read Through, the first pilot to be released under the Jett Road Studios Presents banner.

Read Through is a podcast that presents table reads of yet-to-be-produced scripts. The pilot episode features the animated script Gawayne the Arrogant (of Orlando), written by Larry Sullivan. The show runner is Tim Saccardo. The cast is Andrés du Bouchet, Seth Morris, Katherine Blanford, Dan Cronin, Julie Brister, and Levi MacDougall.

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