‘Taskmasters’ Animated Workplace Comedy From Brian Keith Etheridge, Brendon Walsh, Johnny Ryan In Works At Fox

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has handed a script commitment to animated workplace comedy Taskmasters, from Brian Keith Etheridge (The Neighborhood), Brendon Walsh (Crank Yankers), cartoonist Johnny Ryan, Fox Entertainment Studios and Fox’s Bento Box Entertainment.

Co-written by Etheridge, Walsh and Ryan, Taskmasters is a half-hour animated workplace comedy that follows a crew of lovable wackos navigating the gig economy at a fly-by-night, “we’ll do any job,” business. The show incorporates prank calls to real life customers, so beware – the next time you get a weird phone call at work, it might be an animated character from Taskmasters!

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Etheridge, who also serves as showrunner, executive produces with Walsh and Ryan. The project is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios and Fox’s Bento Box Entertainment.

Etheridge is currently a co-executive producer on Apple’s workplace comedy Mythic Quest. He was previously a co-executive producer on The Neighborhood on CBS, The Ranch at Netflix, The Goldbergs on ABC and The Dangerous Book for Boys at Amazon. He also was supervising producer on Mike and Molly for CBS and The Mick on Fox. He has written for Comedy Central hits South Park and Workaholics and was the head writer and actor on Spike TV’s hit The Joe Schmo Show. He has executive produced a variety of scripted/reality shows and has sold multiple shows/sitcoms to CBS, FOX, Comedy Central and Spike TV.

As a stand-up comedian, Etheridge has appeared on Comedy Central’s series Premium Blend and performed at the prestigious New Faces and The Nasty show at the Montreal Comedy Festival. He is a regular at the Improv and continues to perform regularly in the Los Angeles area.

Walsh has written on Disney animated series Pickle & Peanut, Netflix’s The Midnight Gospel and Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers. He’s appeared on Drunk History, Conan and hosts The World Record Podcast on the All Things Comedy network.

Ryan has written and drawn multiple comic books and animated tv shows, including Angry Youth Comix, a comic book published by Fantagraphics, and “Blecky Yuckerella”, a comic strip which originated in the alternative newspaper the Portland Mercury. He also created Pig Goat Banana Cricket, a TV show made jointly with Dave Cooper, picked up by Nickelodeon.

Etheridge is repped by Gersh and Avalon Management.

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