Former Most Outstanding New Face Inks Deal

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 14th, 2004

We thought we noticed something vaguely familiar in a Variety.com article sent along by Tommy James.

Comic DJ Nash is teaming with Kelsey Grammer’s Paramount-based Grammnet shingle to develop a half-hour laffer for NBC.

My Other Life in Brooklyn will be based on Nash’s recent real-life experience working in New York on Whoopi Goldberg’s Peacock sitcom while commuting home to his wife in Los Angeles.

During the season he spent on Whoopi, Nash lived with two single male roommates in New York five days a week, then flew home to his wife on the weekends. The dual life experience gave Nash some insights into male-female relationships that will serve as the center of the project.

Then we read the tail end of the story, where they said that Nash signed and starred in a CBS pilot “a couple years ago, not long after being voted best new face at the 2000 Montreal Comedy Festival.” Hey… wait a minute… We recalled that we once jokingly proclaimed Paul F. Tompkins to be the “Festival Winner” at the 1999 JFL. Then we also faintly recalled someone (as it turned out, it was pop.com) declared someone to be that year’s “Most Outstanding New Face!” Back then, he was David J. Nash, as is evidenced by this excerpt from one of our JFL 2000 updates:

The dotcom thing has become quite a force here. There’s always speculation at JFL about deals being signed for x amount of dollars. This year, however, the only sentences that had those three words in them also contained the words “dot” and “com” somewhere in them. Pop.com went so far as to hand out a plaque to a comic, David J. Nash, and unofficially (Non-JFL-approved!) saddled him with the rather ungainly title of “Most Outstanding New Face.” They briefly stopped the music and brought out (much to everyone’s horror) an Austin Powers impersonator to present the award. Then they turned the music back up, turned on the strobes and it was back to ignoring the cauliflower! The food was atrocious at all but one party (comedyworld.com/Thursday night You can’t go wrong with smoked meat!). Does anyone really eat cauliflower? Sushi is risky. When you refuse to eat free food, you know something is horribly askew!

Since then, of course, Nash has dropped most of the letters in his first name and the period from his middle initial. And pop.com’s domain name has been bought by a bunch of movie fans named CountingDown.com. Time marches on!

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