Joe Davola is an American television and film producer, director and writer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City and raised in

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. Davola, Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins formed production company Tollin/Robbins Productions, which developed and produced a number of successful television series.Ballard, Allison (December 8, 2003)
"State, city discuss film incentives"
Wilmington:''

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''. p. 1D. (Google News archive) Some projects include '' All That'', '' The Amanda Show'', '' The Nick Cannon Show'', ''

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'', '' What I Like About You'', '' The Bronx Is Burning'', and ''

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''. Davola started his career at

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as an associate producer and later became one of the channel's top executive producers. He co-created the cult game show '' Remote Control''. Joe went on to Fox Broadcasting Company as Senior Vice President of Development, where he developed the

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-winning shows '' In Living Color'' and ''

The Ben Stiller Show ''The Ben Stiller Show'' is an American sketch comedy series that aired on MTV from 1990 to 1991, and then on Fox from September 27, 1992, to January 17, 1993. The Fox program starred Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Cha ...

'' as well as the Billboard Music Awards. Davola returned to MTV in 1993, where as senior vice president of development and production,"Seinfeld's 'Crazy Joe Davola' really exists"
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''. June 18, 1993. p. 38. (Google News archive). he started MTV Films, MTV Home Video and MTV Productions. From MTV he went to DreamWorks Television where he was involved in the development of the hit

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show '' Spin City''. The character

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on the sitcom ''

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'' was named after him. Davola and Robbins co-created '' AwesomenessTV'' which sold to DreamWorks Animation in May 2013 and to

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in 2018. It is as of 2022 under ViacomCBS.

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