TikTok comedy brand Stapleview launches new series of shows

Stapleview, the producer of TikTok's first long-form sketch comedy show, is expanding its horizons.

The company is relaunching this fall with a series of half-hour shows that will air across several social platforms, including TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Stapleview, led by Sam Gray and Daniel Lantsman, will premiere five shows this fall and is starting production on three more.

“Ultimately, it's about empowering talent who can speak authentically, not just to digital natives but to all comedy fans. This is the heart of what we are developing and producing,” Gray and Lantsman said in a statement. “The magic is in combining talent discovery and a clear understanding of how digital platforms are the new networks for comedy fans. As our partnership and company grow with exceptional advisors and investors who believe in us and our journey, it's exciting to be on the cusp of this new connection with comedic content.”

Gray founded Stapleview – which is also the name of the company's first sketch show – in 2022, and Lantsman joined as a co-founder earlier this year. The company's investors include Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg, Joe Drake, Guggenheim Brothers Media, led by Dillon Lawson-Johnston and Criswell Fiordalis, Nick Meyer and Peter Schlessel. Oscar-nominated producer Kristie Macosko Krieger and business manager Matt Lichtenberg recently joined Meyer and Schlessel on the company's advisory board

One of the Stapleview Sketch show performers Jane Wickline have joined the cast of Saturday night live this season as a featured player.

The five shows premiering in the fall are Stapleview Presents: Great Questions with Kim and Aliyaa weekly talk show with Kim Seltzer and Aliya Kamalova; Clean the airin which comedian Taylor Ortega (Welcome to Flatch) plays an investigative journalist who interviews people about their public scandals; Acres without a condomwith Casey Thomas Brown (The Kominsky method) as a recently divorced guy who finds himself “through cooking and connecting”; The method (co-produced by The Laugh Factory), about a comedian/writer/dancer/singer (Joey Dardano) who offers his services to the people of Los Angeles; AND Home planeta sketch show starring comedians Alex Forrest and Joe Gleason.

Going into production they are Advertising worldabout an out-of-touch advertising agency trying to stay relevant; 45 years leftabout “a 30-year-old man who must learn to deal with the tragic limits of a normal human life”; AND Escape roomabout three employees of – yes – an escape room, based on a job creator and star Jared Goldstein once had.

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