LEG (entertainment company)
LEG (formerly Levity Entertainment Group) is a vertically integrated talent management, television production, branded entertainment, live exhibition, and digital marketing firm based in Los Angeles, California. The company was established in its current form in 2009 with the merger of Levity Productions, Levity Management, Triage Entertainment, E-Comic Branding, and branded entertainment production company Medium.
LEG owns one of the nation’s largest groups of comedy clubs and live events spaces and is the largest shareholder of The Improv comedy club chain.
Divisions
LEG Productions
LEG Productions produces television programs, including original series and specials for network television, cable television, and first run syndication. LEG’s credits include programs for Food Network (Iron Chef America, The Next Iron Chef, Food Network Star), Comedy Central (The Ben Show, Gabe Iglesias’ Stand-Up Revolution, The Half Hour, The Jeff Dunham Show), Syfy (Dream Machines, Scariest Places on Earth), Country Music Television (Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, Cowboy U), CBS (Home for the Holidays and Survivor Finale), Cooking Channel (Hungry Girl), History (Full Throttle, April 1865, Surviving The Holidays With Lewis Black), NBC (The Mentalist), Style Network (What I Hate About Me), and the syndicated programs Beyond Chance and Sightings.
LEG Management
LEG Management represents actors, live performers, writers, directors and lifestyle personalities.
LEG Live
LEG owns or co-owns more than 30 comedy clubs and restaurants in the United States including Levity Live, Up Comedy Club, and several Improv Comedy Clubs. The company is the nation’s largest purchaser of live comedy, employing more than 300 comedians weekly.
LEG Digital
LEG Digital manages the online media strategies for brands, traditional agencies, and entertainers. LEG manages the social media campaigns for Jeff Dunham, George Lopez, and David Spade, comedy festivals and clubs, and brands invested in comedic online messaging. In 2011, LEG Digital founded the Sideshow Network which produces and distributes original podcasts by celebrities including George Lopez, Sugar Ray Leonard and Phil Hendrie.