Brian Volk-Weiss
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Brian Volk-Weiss (born May 28, 1976 in Queens, New York) is an American television and film producer.[1]
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Brian Volk-Weiss is New Wave Entertainment's Head of Production/Dynamics and Sr. Vice President of Talent Management. Volk-Weiss has overseen the New Wave Entertainment-produced TV series Frank TV, which aired on Turner Broadcasting System, as well as Comedy Central's "Whitney Cummings: Money Shot", "Sinbad: Where You At?", "Eddie Griffin: Tell Them I Said It," and "Nick Di Paolo: Raw Nerve" and in 2010 he also produced "Naked But Funny" for FOX. Volk-Weiss also produced Dane Cook's Concert Special:Isolated Incident on Comedy Central as well as all of Cook's movies Employee of the Month, Good Luck Chuck (starring Cook and Jessica Alba), and My Best Friend's Girl (2008) as well as produced all five of Cook's albums, two of which went double platinum and one went gold.
In addition, Volk-Weiss produced the reality series "Pretty Wild" for E! Television, The Next Best Thing for ABC, Dane's Vicious Circle and "Tourgasm" for HBO, U.S. of ANT for MTV, The Ron White Show for Comedy Central and Long Distance Relationship for Sony TV[disambiguation needed 
]. In December 2009, Variety's "Dealmakers That Are Up Next" special profiled Volk-Weiss and nine other Hollywood executives.[2]
Volk-Weiss is currently overseeing production of Discovery ID's "True Grime: Crime Scene Cleaners" shooting in Oakland, pilots for VH1, Sundance Channel, CMT, and WEtv, as well as multiple one hour comedy specials for Comedy Central, CMT, and Showtime, including Aziz Ansari, Nick Cannon, Michael Ian Black, and Tom Green.
Volk-Weiss attended the University of Iowa and graduated in 1998.
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