Jarrod Carland Jarrod Carland Jarrod Carland is an Australian creative director, establishing design agency Studio Jack in 2008. He has also been involved in the entertainment industry as a producer, working on a variety of events and productions, from festivals to musical theatre productions and large scale concert events. Prior to 2008, Carland trained and worked in general management with Laura Green in New York on Broadway, working on the Broadway productions of "The Producers" and "Hairspray", culminating in working as assistant to Mel Brooks for the Broadway production and cast recording of "The New Mel Brooks Musical: Young Frankenstein", which opened
Mel Brooks the comically aggressive job of tummler (master entertainer) at Grossinger's, one of the Borscht Belt's most famous resorts. Brooks found more rewarding work behind the scenes, becoming a comedy writer for television. In 1949 his friend Sid Caesar hired Brooks to write jokes for the NBC series "The Admiral Broadway Revue", paying him $50 a week. In 1950 Caesar created the revolutionary variety comedy series "Your Show of Shows" and hired Brooks as a writer along with Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, and head writer Mel Tolkin. The show was an immediate hit and has been influential to all