Exclusive: Comedian Maz Jobrani has teamed with Grom Social Enterprises’ Curiosity Ink Media to develop an original animated sitcom that channels Jobrani’s experiences growing up as an Iranian-American immigrant in the U.S.
Co-created by Jobrani and Dustin Ellis Laugh On Lorb (working title), centers on an aspiring teenage comic who is selected to introduce Oprah Winfrey at an appearance at his school. He is mistakenly kidnapped from the stage by alien Lorbs who believe he is Oprah, and then taken back to their planet to meet their princess. After learning that she is on a mission to bring emotion back to Lorb to save it from disaster, he agrees to channel his inner Oprah to help her and, through the eyes of a teenage Iranian immigrant, share his own insight, wit and philosophy of life while learning about comedy – and himself- along the way.
Co-created by Jobrani and Dustin Ellis Laugh On Lorb (working title), centers on an aspiring teenage comic who is selected to introduce Oprah Winfrey at an appearance at his school. He is mistakenly kidnapped from the stage by alien Lorbs who believe he is Oprah, and then taken back to their planet to meet their princess. After learning that she is on a mission to bring emotion back to Lorb to save it from disaster, he agrees to channel his inner Oprah to help her and, through the eyes of a teenage Iranian immigrant, share his own insight, wit and philosophy of life while learning about comedy – and himself- along the way.
- 3/10/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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