Howard Leib | Court Jester Legal @HowardLeib
Entertainment & IP attorney for comedians. Serious law for funny people. Comedy historian, Grammy-nominated producer, law professor. Attorney advertising. howardleiblaw.com/checklist.html… New York Joined May 2014-
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@THR Forty years of comics donating their best nights. Behind every benefit set is a contract nobody sees: appearance terms, who owns the recording, where the clips can run. Charity work deserves good contracts too.
@latenightercom The two-year term is the tell. Short deals get repriced often, and that favors whoever holds the leverage. Add the executive producer credit and that's a seat where the show's business gets decided, not just its jokes.
@thecomedybook @TheImprov Great story. And the guy who was "okay" just re-upped at The Daily Show through 2028. Every career has a club manager somewhere who said yes to a spot. Bookers are the most underrated dealmakers in comedy.
Is a bringer show a scam? It's a business model: you bring the crowd, the venue fills a room on an off night. Ask first: What do I get on tape, and can I post it? Who's in the room? What will my friends spend? Comics are small businesses. Know your costs. #standupcomedy
@DEADLINE Congratulations to her. For any comic landing a first hour, the terms behind the premiere date matter as much as the date: the exclusivity window, who owns the special when the license ends, and any option on the next hour.
Jon Stewart signed on to host and executive produce The Daily Show through 2028. Two years, not five: short deals get repriced often. The EP credit puts him where the business gets decided. Sign long when YOU want security, not when they do. #standupcomedy #EntertainmentLaw
@BritishComedy Self-released specials keep getting more inventive. Wherever an hour lives, the business questions don't change: who owns the recording, who controls the channel, and who collects the revenue.
@GianmarcoSoresi Somebody has to negotiate the format rights for every national edition. I volunteer to lawyer the opening ceremonies.
@mattrife Written material is the part of an act that keeps paying. A great crowd work clip is lightning in a bottle; a written bit can be refined, recorded, released and licensed for years. Both build a career. Only one builds a catalog.
Norm Macdonald and Bob Newhart had a mutual admiration society. When Bob hosted SNL in 1995, Norm wrote him the "Postal Worker Evaluation" sketch in Bob's one-sided phone call style. Bob loved it: "Norm, do you mind if I do that in my act?" #standupcomedy #comedyhistory
@Variety Classic film catalogs get second lives through deals like this, and each one is a rights puzzle: the film, the restoration, the score and each territory can have a different owner.
@THR For comics, a regime change at a buyer is a contract moment. The exec who championed your special may be gone, so the paper has to do the remembering: options, exclusivity, and what happens if the next hour isn't picked up.
@garyowencomedy Congrats on 5 million. Self-released specials changed the math of comedy: an hour that keeps finding viewers is exactly why who owns the special matters as much as who airs it.
Before SNL: Your Show of Shows (1950-54). 90 minutes, live, Saturday night, New York, a repertory cast and hungry young writers. Sid Caesar built that formula 25 years early. His rooms launched Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen. #standupcomedy #comedyhistory
@latenightercom Worth watching how this gets papered. When a show moves from broadcast to streaming, the original deals decide who shares in that second life. For the comics on those panels, the clips outlive the airdate. The contract terms should too.
The First Amendment protects a comic's monologue from the government, not from critics. Criticism is speech too. The government almost never punishes your jokes. The paperwork does: morals clauses, the right to cut a set, the booking that doesn't recur. #standupcomedy
@TooCloseToTheTV @YouTube Twenty-six years of Larry David making social etiquette feel like a contact sport. Few shows have turned so many minor grievances into so much comedy.
@LucyDesiMuseum Preservation like this matters beyond nostalgia. Scripts, prints and photos are how comedy history gets told accurately, and often how questions about who owns what get answered decades later. Thank you for doing this work.
@latenightercom Norm spent a career making audiences unsure whether the joke was the joke. Fitting that a documentary about him can't quite pin him down either. Looking forward to this one.
A morals clause can punish a comic for doing the job they were hired to do. You usually can't strike it, but you can improve it: a reasonable standard, not "sole discretion," no look-back, and notice first. One change? Carve out your material. #standupcomedy #EntertainmentLaw
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