Jordan Brady | |
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| Born | 10 August 1964 United States |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, Writer, Actor |
Jordan Brady (born August 10, 1964) is an American director. He was a professional stand-up comic in the 1980s, and later played small roles in many TV shows including Baywatch and Who's the Boss.[1]
Brady wrote and directed the feature film Dill Scallion. He directed the films Confessions of an American Girl, Waking Up in Reno, The Third Wheel and Maria Bamford's The Special Special Special! TV special.
He also created a trilogy of documentary films about the art and occupational hazards of stand-up comedy. The first was 2010's I Am Comic. The second was I Am Road Comic[2] was released April 30, 2014, as a follow-up documentary. The third was I Am Battle Comic, about stand-up comedy for the US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.
Brady has been a game show host three times; his shows include MTV's Turn It Up!, the lone episode of Grill Me, and the 1990s NBC series Name Your Adventure, for which he also served as director and producer.
Brady's podcast "Respect the Process" is about filmmaking in the context of commercials and web content.[3]
You've likely spotted Jordan Brady in small roles on shows like Baywatch, Dream On, Parker Lewis Can't Lose or Who's the Boss... And you've surely seen a few of his commercials, since over the last 10 years, he's directed more than 700 of them. But if you're in the comedy world, you know Brady from his 2010 cult documentary I Am Comic.
The Superlounge director/partner, whose Respect The Process podcast has hosted pretty much every Stateside adland hero in its 6 year history, certainly isn't one to rest on his laurels