Jason Winer

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Jason Winer is an alumnus of Northwestern University and Chicago's Improv Olympic theater, where he studied with the legendary Del Close. After moving to Los Angeles, his comedy group, Bitter Noah, was invited to perform their improvised "movie" at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival. Together, they went on to create MTV's "The Blame Game" on which Jason was a writer, producer, and co-star for 136 episodes. After several years of work in television and movies, Jason partnered w... more

Jason Winer is an alumnus of Northwestern University and Chicago's Improv Olympic theater, where he studied with the legendary Del Close. After moving to Los Angeles, his comedy group, Bitter Noah, was invited to perform their improvised "movie" at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival. Together, they went on to create MTV's "The Blame Game" on which Jason was a writer, producer, and co-star for 136 episodes. After several years of work in television and movies, Jason partnered with Hayes MacArthur to write, produce and star in "The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend," a short film which he also directed. The film was purchased by 20th Century Fox and transformed into a television pilot, which Jason co-wrote, co-produced and starred in. Subsequently, 20th TV commissioned another pilot, the CBS ensemble comedy "Giants of Radio" which Winer wrote, produced and directed. Most recently, Jason directed the "The Untitled Liz Meriwether Project" (AKA "Good Clean Fun") a single-camera comedy pilot for Fox.