Dr. Kate Biberdorf
Leroy Chaio
Will Durst
Chris Fonseca
Billy Gardell
Judy Gold
Cathy Ladman
Cathy Ladman

cyberlaff inc.

a glenn schwartz company

Megan Piphus Peace
Megan Piphus Peace
Carmen De Lavallade
Ms. Pat
Penn and Teller
Paula Poundstone
Shadoe Stevens
Billy West

a management and public relations agency representing talent in the fields of comedy, acting, live performance, animation, science, and science fiction

clients

Dr. Kate Biberdorf PhD

aka Kate the Chemist, is a chemist, science entertainer, and professor at The University of Texas. Through her theatrical and hands-on approach to teaching, Dr. Biberdorf is breaking down the image of the stereotypical scientist, while reaching students who might otherwise be intimidated by science. Students' emotional responses, rather than rote memorization of facts, are key to Biberdorf's dynamic approach to her program, as well as science in general. Her exciting and engaging program leaves audiences with a positive, memorable impression of science—all while diminishing the stigma around women in science. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Kelly Clarkson Show, NBC Nightly News, the Wendy Williams Show, the Rachael Ray Show, and Late Night with Stephen Colbert.
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Leroy Chaio

“Leroy Chiao’s preoccupation with the heavens has led to his becoming a leading member of two of the most elite and exclusive groups on Earth: NASA astronauts and, now, one of the pioneers in the frontier of commercial space flight. If he has his way, flying to the moon will be as common for our kids as hopping a flight to Grandma’s.” –USA Weekend Magazine
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Will Durst

Will Durst, sworn enemy to all tyrants, foreign and domestic, left and right, is more than a stand- up comic: he’s an author, syndicated columnist, radio and TV commentator, stage and screen actor, radio talk show host, and former margarine smuggler. Nominated for 5 Emmys with 7 nominations for the American Comedy Awards Stand up of the Year, he has yet to win anything. Durst has performed in 14 different countries, garnering 500+ television appearances including regular stints on PBS, CNN & Fox News, He has performed in front of 3 elected Presidents, a Mayors Convention, a Governors Conference and once made Bill Clinton laugh so hard he spit water through his nose, which remains the highlight of his career. Come see the man who the New York Times calls “possibly the best political comic working in the country today.”
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Chris Fonseca

Chris Fonseca is a Colorado native who has shared the stage with Jose Feliciano and Jon Secada at a benefit for the Latin American Educational Foundation in Denver, Colorado. He has done stand-up comedy for twenty-one years and his wheelchair is definitely part of the equation, due to a combination of being born with Cerebral Palsy and car accidents. His prominent TV appearances include “The Late Show with David Letterman,” HBO’s “Loco Slam,” PBS’ “Look Who’s Laughing,” and ABC’s “9th Annual American Comedy Awards.” Also, on the small screen Fonseca took a jab at acting in an episode of the mega-hit show, “Baywatch.” He has released two CDs, 1997’s “Not Tonight, I have Cerebral Palsy….” and 2001’s “Get in the Van.” A follow-up is in the works. The discs have gained airplay coast to coast, on radio programs such as “The Howard Stern Show” and Los Angeles’ KLOS’ “Five O’Clock Funnies.” Clips from both albums are frequently played on XM Satellite Radio.
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Billy Gardell

Billy Gardell currently stars in the CBS series Bob Hearts Abishola, from award-winning creator, executive producer and writer Chuck Lorre. Bob Hearts Abishola is a love story about a middle-aged compression sock businessman from Detroit who unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant, while recovering from a heart attack and sets his sights on winning her over. Undaunted by Abishola’s lack of initial interest or the vast differences in their backgrounds, Bob is determined to win Abishola’s heart, in this comedic examination of immigrant life in America.
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Judy Gold

Two-time 'Emmy Award' winner Judy Gold is a veteran comedian, actor, writer and podcast host known for her edgy wit, sharp timing, and infamous crowd work. Judy has had stand-up specials on HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO. She has written and starred in two one woman Off-Broadway Shows. In addition to being an Emmy award winning TV writer, she can be seen guest starring in many shows such as Better Things, Madame Secretary & I’m Dying Up Here. She is the host of the hit podcast, Kill Me Now. Her book, “YES I CAN SAY THAT – When They Come for the Comedians We’re All in Trouble,” has received rave reviews, being featured on The Today Show and in the New York Times. Consistently appealing to all generations and backgrounds, Judy can be found throughout most mediums of entertainment: TV; Film; Web-Series'; Stage; Storytelling; Radio/Podcasting.
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Cathy Ladman

Cathy Ladman

The best way to get inside Cathy Ladman's head is to see her live. As one of the country's top comedians, Ladman's show is a self-probing, anxiety-venting vehicle, which draws laughter from exposing personal neurosis. She has not only appeared on "The Tonight Show" nine times, but was also the only female comic to appear on the last two Johnny Carson "Tonight Show Anniversary" shows. Cathy has had her own HBO "One Night Stand" comedy special and, in 1992, was awarded the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up Comic.
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Carmen De Lavallade

Dancer, actress and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade, has performed in theater, film, TV and opera since the early 1950s. In 2017 Carmen became a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor.
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Ms. Pat

Let’s start with Ms. Pat hasn’t lived the life of your typical comedian. Born to a single mother of 5, living on welfare in a tough West end neighborhood of Atlanta, Ms. Pat learned early on she would have to fend for herself in this world. Her Grandfather ran a “bootleg” house where as a kid Pat learned how to roll the drunks for food money. She had her first child at 14 and her second child at 15, “I knew I wasn’t going to college so I figured why not get an early start on my family”. She became a drug dealer in her teens known by the street name “Rabbit”. In 2021 she will star in Ms. Pat, new series for BET+from Brian Grazer and Lee Daniels
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Megan Piphus Peace

Megan Piphus Peace

Since 2020, Megan has played the role of Gabrielle, a 6-year old black girl Muppet, on Sesame Street. After training for a year to learn Muppet style puppetry with the cast of Sesame Street, Megan became the first black female puppeteer to perform on Sesame Street in September of 2021. Megan loves spending time with her husband Dr. Wes Peace, her 2-year old son Leo, and 9-month old son Tyson.
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Penn and Teller

They defy labels, and at times, good taste. They’ve performed together for over 30 years; skewering the genre of magic, their sold-out audiences, and themselves -- very often all at the same time, within one mind-boggling evening. And along the way, Penn & Teller have made the hardest trick of all – a remarkable career that ranges from stage to television, three best-selling books, TV series and Specials, and films. Appearances on “Late Night with David Letterman” soon “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Miami Vice,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “Hollywood Squares,” “The Today Show,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Friends,” “Dharma & Greg,” “Home Improvement,” and “The Simpsons.”
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Paula Poundstone

Heralded as one of our country’s foremost comics, Paula Poundstone’s quick-thinking, unscripted approach to comedy makes for a perfect fit as a regular panelist on NPR’s #1 show, the screwball weekly news quiz show WAIT WAIT…DON’T TELL ME! where she holds the record for game losses. “The others cheat,” she says magnanimously, “you wouldn’t think NPR would put up with that.” more
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Shadoe Stevens

Shadoe Stevens is one of the most recognized voices in the world. He has been an award-winning, worldwide personality, and innovator for radio, television, film, new media and visual arts. You may know him from American Top 40 in 110 countries heard by more than a billion people a week, Hollywood Squares, for creating and launching World Famous KROQ-FM in Los Angeles, as a star on Dave’s World on CBS, for creating the advertising campaign "Fred Rated for Federated," being the voice of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, the voice of the Antenna TV Network, his children’s books, RhythmRadio, Cabo Wabo Radio, Top of the World, Rock the World, Party Planet, MentalRadio, Blackout Television, The Weekly Show, the Craig Ferguson show on SIRIUSXM, countless commercials and voice-overs, Artwork, motivational speaking, or for being the voice of the Antenna TV Network.
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Billy West

Billy West has voiced such luminaries as Popeye; Nickelodeon’s Doug; Futurama’s Fry, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan and Dr. Zoidberg; Ren and Stimpy; and Woody Woodpecker. He currently co-stars in the new animated series Disenchantment on Netflix. In short, he’s taken the place of the governor of voice-over specialists — the late Mel Blanc.
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about us

Glenn Schwartz
Eve Sadof
cyberlaff@icloud.com

Cyberlaff Inc., is a Los Angeles-based management and public relations agency. The agency represents clients in the areas of comedy, film, television, live performance, animation and science.
Founder Glenn Schwartz has represented clients including the legendary Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, George Carlin, The Smothers Brothers, David Brenner, Robert Klein, Steven Wright, Graham Chapman, Dick Cavett, The Montreal Comedy Festival and Comedy Central.
A native New Yorker, Schwartz attended Syracuse University, and began his career in the entertainment business shortly thereafter. His first job in show business was on the groundbreaking NBC sitcom “Love Sidney.” Following that he held production jobs at Sesame Street and various other variety television specials before landing at the number one network morning show, ABC’s Good Morning America. Schwartz worked as a talent coordinator, booking talent ranging from celebrities, sports figures to newsmakers.
After GMA, Schwartz began a career in entertainment public relations as an account executive at the prestigious entertainment PR firm Rogers and Cowan. During this time Schwartz developed the comedy roster at the agency.
After a tenure heading up the New York and LA talent departments for the nationally syndicated television show, “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” Glenn decided to go out on his own, combining his varied talents in public relations and television production. In 1988, Glenn launched The Glenn Schwartz Company, the first “all-comedy” public relations firm. This New York- based entity became the agency of choice for well-known comedians.
Ten years later, Glenn relocated the company to Los Angeles and evolved it into Cyberlaff, an agency that represents management as well as public relations clients. Cyberlaff combines rich entertainment history with current trends in media and technology.

tributes

MARCH 30, 2002
GLENN SCHWARTZ
Milton Berle was my first client when I started my public relations firm in 1985. To outsiders, he called me Mr. Schwartz. Privately, he called me “kid,” “son,” “what’s his name,” “my PR” and words you just can’t print in a family newspaper. He wasn’t just a client, he was like a familiar relative–cranky and funny.
We worked together more than 12 years, and the thing about Berle was that every time you were with him, you never forgot. And everyone who met him, even for scant seconds, felt the same. The waiters, the cabdrivers, the bellhops, clerks at the 7- Eleven and everyone walking down the street that just happened to glance his way.
I didn’t learn everything from Milton. But I learned a lot–all with the Berle spin.
Buying cigars, clipping cigars, smoking cigars. I even pretended to like cigars. It did, however, come with a price. Limo rides were windows up, no air-conditioning, even in summer. I knew that he cared for me when he allowed me to crack the window. But only once or twice.
My clothes always reeked–but it reminded me of our hours together.
He taught me card tricks; he taught my daughter card tricks. I learned to eat lox with capers, tell a joke, slide first into the limo, travel with my own pillow, wear a raincoat in the summer, cut off the ends of the white bread, not to top him with jokes, not to interrupt (“Ah, ah, ah! I’m talking. The king is talking,” he would say), and to listen and wait. Lots of listening and waiting. All well worth it.
We spent a lot of time together. The lunches at the Friars Club were five, six hours long. I just couldn’t leave. The stories were priceless.
I sat with him in his den one morning and he sang the music from his Broadway show, “Milton and Me,” that never opened– the entire show. I remember just sitting and listening, smiling the whole time. I’ll never forget that.
It wasn’t just the show business stories that stuck. It was the other stuff, the personal stuff.
I remember having Chinese food in a restaurant in New York one evening. Milton had dry skin, and he was doing a lot of itching. We talked about that, insomnia and sinus infections. I told Milton that everyone in the restaurant must have thought we were talking about Jolson, Hope or Carson. He just had an itch. Just like a normal person. I remember the dinners with famous people. Schwarzenegger and Shriver, Dan Rather and Leontyne Price, Muhammad Ali and Captain Kangaroo. Even in that company, he always had a seat for me at his table. Did I mention Tiny Tim?
I sat next to Colin Powell at a White House function, met the first President Bush and took home my place card. All because of Milton.
When Milton found out Billy Barty died I was again in his den. He got a lot of those calls. He was the “go to” guy for funny Hollywood eulogies. I offered to help write it on index cards. Then I got yelled at because I wasn’t union. Being yelled at by Milton Berle is an honor.
My parents finally had a chance to meet Milton when he performed at Westbury, N.Y. He told my mother that she looked like my sister, and took a picture with them. He was in his bathrobe at the time, cooling down from his show. The picture is still on their refrigerator and it still looks like they were visiting him in the hospital.
He remembered my birthday; he even bought me a Piaget watch–a fake. I didn’t let on I knew it was a knockoff. I was touched by the idea that he actually stopped on the street to buy me anything. That day we watched the major league All-Star Game together. He loved baseball, and so did I. That was a good birthday.
Or as Milton would say, “That was a good “Berleday.”
JANUARY 21, 2022

Louie Anderson, the genial stand-up comedian, actor and television host who won an Emmy Award for his work on the series “Baskets” and two Daytime Emmys for his animated children’s show, “Life With Louie,” died on Friday in Las Vegas. He was 68.

His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his longtime publicist, Glenn Schwartz, who said the cause was complications of diffuse large B cell lymphoma, a form of blood cancer.

In an entertainment career that spanned more than four decades, Mr. Anderson had a self-deprecating style that won him legions of fans, among them Henny Youngman and Johnny Carson, whose early support catapulted him to stardom.

In 1981, Mr. Anderson was among the top finishers in a comedy competition hosted by Mr. Youngman, who subsequently hired himas a writer.

Mr. Anderson made his national television debut on “The Tonight Show” with Mr. Carson in 1984, and, as comedians say, he killed. The routine was heavy on jokes about his own weight (which topped 300 pounds at times), and he had the audience roaring from his opening deadpan line: “I can’t stay long. I’m in between meals.”

Afterward, Mr. Carson brought him out for a second bow, a rarity for comics and especially for one making his debut. As Mr. Anderson told it, Mr. Carson later paid him another high compliment.

“He came by my dressing room on the way to his, stuck his head in and said, ‘Great shot, Louie,’” he told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2002. “Because comics call that a ‘shot’ on ‘The Tonight Show.’ And that was huge for me.”

Mr. Anderson went from earning $500 a week for his stand-up work to making twice that in one night, he said. And film and television work started coming his way, including small roles in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986) and “Coming to America” (1988). In 1987, Showtime broadcast a comedy special that captured him in performance at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

Reviewing the show for The New York Times, John J. O’Connor wrote, “In an age when comedians rely on desperation measures to establish a performing identity — think of Howie Mandel indulging in infantile screaming or Sam Kinison feigning a nervous breakdown — Mr. Anderson has developed a low-keyed act that could fit comfortably into the category of family entertainment.”

He added, “At a time when stand-up comedy is trafficking heavily in insult, hysteria and sexual obsessions, Mr. Anderson seems to have come up with something truly different — old-fashioned, heartwarming humor.”

That would be his bread and butter for his whole career, although he took it in interesting directions. “Life With Louie,” which ran from 1994 to 1998 and won him Daytime Emmys in 1997 and 1998 as outstanding performer in an animated program, was a savvy children’s show that also had an adult following; its title character, a child, dealt with an assortment of problems at home and on the playground.

On “Baskets,” an acclaimed comic drama that ran from 2016 to 2019 and starred Zach Galifianakis, Mr. Anderson, in drag, played the mother of twin brothers played by Mr. Galifianakis. Mr. Anderson was nominated for the supporting actor Emmy for the role three times, winning in 2016.

In a 1996 interview with The Orlando Sentinel, he reflected on his appeal.

“People are comfortable with me onstage,” he said. “There’s nothing hateful about my comedy. I look at it from the humanity standpoint. I’m just kind of like ‘Hey, we’re all in this together,’ and so they feel comfortable inviting me into their living rooms.”

Louis Perry Anderson was born on March 24, 1953, in St. Paul, Minn. His mother, Zella, was a homemaker, and his father, Louis, was a jazz musician.

He graduated from high school in St. Paul and had a job counseling troubled youths when his career path changed as a result of a dare.

“I went out one night with some guys from work and we saw a couple of comedians,” he recounted in a 1987 interview with The Post-Standard of Syracuse, N.Y. “I remarked that neither one of them was very funny, and everybody began telling me to get up there myself if I thought I could do it better.

“The joke kind of escalated over time,” he continued, “and finally one night, I did get up onstage. Once I did, I discovered that I liked it a lot. I have been doing it ever since.”

He began working comedy clubs in Minnesota, then branched out to Chicago and other mid-American cities. At the 1981 Midwest Comedy Competition in St. Louis he did well enough to impress the show’s host, Mr. Youngman, who hired him as a writer and boosted his confidence.

“He helped me learn to write really good material, and he encouraged me to stay in comedy,” Mr. Anderson said of Mr. Youngman. “I was at that point where I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do next.”

The Carson appearance in 1984 helped make him a headliner, and he worked regularly in Las Vegas and other top comedy cities, touring for a time with Roseanne Barr. A 1996 sitcom, “The Louie Show,” on which he played a psychotherapist. lasted only six episodes despite a supporting cast that included Bryan Cranston, but Mr. Anderson frequently played guest roles on other series and was a fixture on late-night talk shows. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was host of the game show “Family Feud.”

He was also an author. His stand-up comedy drew heavily on his family in lighthearted ways, but his books had a more serious element. “Dear Dad: Letters From an Adult Child” (1989) was a series of letters addressed to his father that dealt with, among other things, his father’s alcoholism.

“I can remember coming home from school and knowing when I walked in the door whether or not you had been drinking — without even seeing anyone,” he wrote. “That’s how sensitive I think I became.”

As his stand-up career progressed, Mr. Anderson dialed back on the jokes about his weight, and his book “Goodbye Jumbo … Hello Cruel World,” published in 1993, was an honest look at his food addiction. “The F Word: How to Survive Your Family” (2002) and “Hey Mom: Stories for My Mother, but You Can Read Them Too” (2018) also had serious intent.

Mr. Anderson was one of 11 children. His survivors include his sisters Lisa and Shanna Anderson, Mr. Schwartz said.

Mr. Anderson said he based parts of his “Baskets” character on his mother. In “Hey Mom,” he addressed her directly.

“I guess I must believe in the afterlife if I’m writing to you and I talk to you and my face is always turned up to the sky,” he wrote. “If there is an afterlife, I hope there’s a big comfortable chair, because I know you like that, and good creamer for your coffee, and a TV showing old reruns.”

Neil Vigdor contributed reporting