First though, there are probably a number of you who have missed the brilliance of this comedy kingpin and never even realized it. For those of you truly in the dark on Jay's work, his largest commercial success was in 1996's Jerry Maguire, where he co-starred with Tom Cruise as Bob Sugar, the agent yanking at Jerry's life. He has also starred in such films as Go, Pay it Forward, Suicide Kings, Picture Perfect and Mafia! He has starred in such television series as Fox's "Action", "NFL This Morning", "Beyond The Glory" and "Mohr Sports". Oh, and he did a two year stint writing and performing on "Saturday Night Live". This is all between his live performances, the release of a book and running Giraffe. Jay started his illustrious career as a fifteen year old in high school. "I always loved watching and listening to stand-up comedy. When I was fifteen, I saw an advertisement for a teenage comedy showcase at the comedy club in the town that I lived in. I had sort of a moment of clarity and decided to go for it. I tried it and I have been hooked ever since. That was about eighteen years ago." Jay was first involved in comedy purely for the stand-up aspect of the business - the live performance. Then he explains, things changed. "It seems that along your journey, perspectives and goals change. At first, you just want the attention. Then you want the chicks, then the money. Then you want the girls again and eventually you realize that comedy is a serious industry. You start to realize that comedians are doing something important and helpful. People drive to jobs everyday that they hate, but when you are onstage doing your job and see people having a great time, you realize that you are their escape. You are giving them time away from all the garbage they deal with. It blows me away." Jay does a lot of things behind the scenes, but considers himself a pure entertainer. "I wear my tap dance shoes when I sleep," he quips. More than anything else, Jay Mohr is a great performer and a genuinely nice guy. His roots come from hard work, doing one show at a time, and always establishing a relationship with the audience and the people who were kind enough to hire him. He does about one hundred live shows per year, which is pretty busy considering his other responsibilities. There was a time when Jay's career was focused on the big screen, then things started to shift. He wound up going back on the television and stand-up end of his trade for one very simple reason: "I stopped getting the parts," he says. "I was just in a slump. This was when I started doing 'Mohr Sports' for ESPN and working on 'Last Comic Standing.' I needed to stay relevant and I needed to stay paid (laughs). So I thought to myself, 'I am going to create a TV show' and I got lucky. I pitched four shows and sold two of them. One of those two was 'Last Comic Standing.'" This is one obvious fundamental difference between Jay Mohr and a multitude of other entertainers out there today. Jay is like a chameleon... he changes to match the environment. Or as Jay more simply puts it, "It's evolution baby." Now then, enough about Jay, let's talk about the heart of the matter at hand, Giraffe Productions. Giraffe is making enormous strides in the corporate market and Jay, the man behind the operation, is going to fill us in. "Giraffe started about seven years ago. I met with Michael Eisner from Disney and I signed an overall deal with them. Part of that deal was that Disney would help me start a production company, which was Giraffe. I started 'Mohr Sports.' That was the first show and Disney bought it right away. It went on ESPN for 25 episodes. Then 'Last Comic Standing' followed. Now we are working on producing an independent film. "I do a lot of corporate shows though that is where we really shine. I personally do about forty corporate shows a year. The next logical step is to do corporate events. I mean completely handling the entire event. It really offers clients a one stop shop for all their needs for any style of corporate event."