Brian Volk-Weiss is an American television

Television in the United States

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 and film producer.

Background

Brian Volk-Weiss is New Wave Entertainment's Head of Production/Dynamics and Sr. Vice President of Talent Management. Volk-Weiss has overseen the New Wave Entertainment-produced TV series Frank TV

Frank TV

Frank TV was a sketch comedy show starring Frank Caliendo, Mike MacRae, and Freddy Lockhart. Frank was the host of the show and performed in sketches in full makeup as characters he impersonated. Frank joked he "wanted the show to be called The Chappelle Show, but the lawyers wouldn't allow it"...

, which aired on Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System

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, as well as Comedy Central

Comedy Central

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's "Whitney Cummings: Money Shot", "Sinbad: Where You At?", "Eddie Griffin: Tell Them I Said It," and "Nick Di Paolo: Raw Nerve" and in 2010 he also produced "Naked But Funny" for FOX. Volk-Weiss also produced Dane Cook's Concert Special:Isolated Incident on Comedy Central

Comedy Central

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 as well as all of Cook's movies Employee of the Month

Employee of the Month (2006 film)

Employee of the Month is a 2006 American comedy film directed by Greg Coolidge, written by Don Calame, Chris Conroy, and Coolidge, and starring Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson and Dax Shepard. The main plot revolves around two shop employees who compete for the affection of their newest co-worker...

, Good Luck Chuck

Good Luck Chuck

Good Luck Chuck is a 2007 romantic comedy film starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba. In the film, women find their "one true love" after having sex with a dentist named Chuck...

(starring Cook and Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

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), and My Best Friend's Girl

My Best Friend's Girl (2008 film)

My Best Friend's Girl is a 2008 romantic comedy film by Howard Deutch and stars Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Diora Baird, Alec Baldwin, and Lizzy Caplan. It was released on September 19, 2008.-Plot:...

(2008) as well as produced all five of Cook's albums, two of which went double platinum and one went gold.

In addition, Volk-Weiss produced the reality series "Pretty Wild" for E! Television, The Next Best Thing for ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, Dane's Vicious Circle and "Tourgasm" for HBO, U.S. of ANT

U.S. of ANT

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for MTV

MTV

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, The Ron White Show

The Ron White Show

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for Comedy Central and Long Distance Relationship for Sony TV. In December 2009, Variety's "Dealmakers That Are Up Next" special profiled Volk-Weiss and nine other Hollywood executives.

Volk-Weiss is currently overseeing production of Discovery ID's "True Grime: Crime Scene Cleaners" shooting in Oakland, pilots for VH1, Sundance Channel, CMT, and WEtv, as well as multiple one hour comedy specials for Comedy Central, CMT, and Showtime, including Aziz Ansari, Nick Cannon, Michael Ian Black, and Tom Green.

Volk-Weiss attended the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

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 and graduated in 1998.

External links

• Brian Volk-Weiss at Rottentomatoes