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Emmy Award-winning writer John Markus began his career in high school, supplying jokes about his rural Ohio hometown to Broadway columnist Earl Wilson. After graduating from Stanford University he moved to Los Angeles where he landed a job writing a revival of the animated “Mighty Mouse.”
The summer after his junior year at Stanford, John Markus was introduced to Bob Hope in a backstage trailer at the Ohio State Fair. But instead of asking Hope to sign an autograph book, Markus handed the comedian a few pages of carefully typed jokes. “Not now,” Markus remembers Hope saying.
John Markus is known for The Cosby Show (1984), The Larry Sanders Show (1992) and Kristin (2001).
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Aug 25, 2015 · John Markus, co-writer and director of "The Fabulous Lipitones," says the play challenges the audience to examine their first impressions of another person and to “keep tabs on how we judge other people.”
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BBQ Hall of Fame. Markus was just inducted into the 2022 BBQ Hall of Fame, by The American Royal Society and Kansas City BBQ Society. Doesn’t make me an EGOT, but more a EPHBBQHOF.
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May 9, 1994 · John, how did you do it? MARKUS: I sat in my one-room, subterranean apartment in Los Angeles and wrote three spec Taxi scripts, one after the other. PERSKY: And sent them in.
