ABOUT RICH

Rich Talarico is an Emmy nominated and Peabody Award winning writer best known for his work on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele. Rich has also written/produced “Review” on Comedy Central, FOX’s “Mad TV,” NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show w. Jay Leno”,  and the 2-hour TV Special- “Must See TV: A Tribute to James Burrows.” Rich also produced and wrote “Frank TV“ for TBS, “The Sketch Pad” for HBO and co-produced The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show for Comedy Central. Rich also served as a writer on the pilots for “Yo! Is This Racist?” on Mtv, “The Biggest Laugh” on FOX and was director and co-writer of “CC SOCIAL SCENE” a sketch/improv series for Comedy Central Digital hosted by Paul Scheer. Rich is currently writing a feature script for Broken Road/Covert Media, developing a Broadway show with MAD magazine and also co-writing the script for a new Key & Peele feature “Substitute Teacher” for Paramount/ 21 Laps. Based on the sketch from season 2.

BACK IN THE 1900s 

Rich took his first improv class from Stephen Colbert at Chicago’s Second City Theater in 1992; went on to tour with Second City’s National Touring Company and later co-created five original sketch comedy revues with SC’s etc., and Main Stage Companies.

SC, 1999 – TJ Jagodowski, Stephnie Weir, RT, Susan Messing, Kevin Dorff, Tami Sagher

While in Chicago, Rich was also involved at Improv Olympic (Now iO) under the direction of Charna Halpern and the late, Del Close. Rich played on the Improv Olympic house teams “Mr. Blonde” and “Faulty Wiring” – co-created the long-form improv shows “Strap Heads”, “Trio”, “Close Quarters” and “Dasariski“ – appeared in the scripted shows “Hamlet The Musical” and co-wrote, directed and starred in “The Roof is on Fiddler.” Rich understudied “The Family,” did shows with the UCB and played with the early casts of the long running “Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement and Hootenanny.”

Armando Diaz Experience, Theatrical Movement and Hootenanny – 1995

Mr. Blonde – Chicago, 1993

Rich has appeared in several TV commercials, most notably A&W Rootbeer’s “Mr. Dumass”. Rich also appeared in small roles on “Review”, “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”, “Early Edition”, “What About Joan?” and the feature film “High Fidelity”.

Dasariski – Bob Dassie, Rich Talarico, Craig Cackowski

(Photo by K. McShane)

Rich performs long-form improv at the iO WEST Theater in Hollywood and at improv and comedy festivals all over with Bob Dassie and Craig Cackowski in “Dasariski“.

In 2015, Rich started “Bronze Medal Entertainment” a production company based in Glendale, CA.

“Third Place Is Doing Great!”

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