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1202 days ago
Hi, folks. Bob Wiltfong here. So how did The Weathermen Boys come to be? The ball started rolling in August of 2004 when Matt Oberg and I met for the first time while performing different comedy shows at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Matt was a guest performer in my improv comedy team's (www.neutrinonation.com) show over there. After getting back to the States, I called up Matt to see if he'd be interested in doing a stage show with me. He was. That show became our first work together: the two-person "business seminar" called "POW: The Professional Opportunities Workshop." After a successful run of POW at The PIT (www.thepit-nyc.com) in New York, Matt and I set our sights on another project to work on together. One of our interests was writing a sitcom pilot together. Lo and behold, that's when the New York Television Festival came along. Matt and I used the festival (and its corresponding deadlines for entry) as our impetus to ...
1216 days ago
Executive Producers : Matt Oberg & Bob Wiltfong Directors : Matt Oberg & Bob Wiltfong Writers : Matt Oberg & Bob Wiltfong Principal Cast : Bob Wiltfong…………………Bob Weathermen Matt Oberg……………………...Matt Weathermen Fred Tumas…….....…………Meredith Weathermen Ali Farahnakian…………………..Station Manager Background : Bob Wiltfong worked for ten years as an actual news reporter at several stations all over the country, taking up improv comedy while working full-time at a station on Long Island. Frustrated by the priorities demonstrated by local news broadcasts, he decided to leave TV news for good after losing a close friend during 9/11 and devoted himself to his lifelong passion of comedy writing and performance. Since then, he has appeared on Chapelle’s Show and has a recurring role as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Wiltfong met writing ...
