About Us
YUL “SPENCER” (spencerworldwide.com) does it all from film to television, stand-up to stage, animated series to commercials. This multi-talented actor/comic has universal appeal, but his spin on life is all his own. With the support from many comedians, this 20 year plus veteran began his career at the Comedy Store and the Improvisation club in Hollywood.
His first national stand-up appearance was on the Arsenio Hall Show. Spencer made numerous appearances at every major comedy club, touring nationally with a huge following in the south. He sometimes refers to himself as the most popular unknown comic having to have appeared with comics Chris Rock, Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle and many more.
You may have seen him on Comedy Central’s “Make Me Laugh,” Si-TV’s “Funny is Funny,” “BET Live!” numerous appearances on “Ed McMahon’s Next Big Star,” BET’s “Comicview” and Wealth TV’s “Show me the Funny”.
While Spencer continues to perform stand-up, the last five years have been dedicated to his acting career. “Malcolm and Eddie”, “Two Can Play That Game,” “Romeo!”, Replacing Miquel Nunez in the stage play, “Friends and Lovers.” Co-starring in “The Shield” and Burger King’s Steakhouse commercial which was included in TBS’ funniest commercial of 2008. Spencer will wrap his role as Luis in the film “9 Shades of Pleasant” by summer 2009.
When Spencer isn’t acting or touring, he’s entertaining on the web with his NBNToday.com site. It’s a funny source for news and politics. Also, producers have financed his one man show for “One Show at a Time”. Shows will begin in June 2009.
DANITA JONES, a Chicago native, born and raised on the Westside of Chicago, graduated from Columbia College of Chicago with a BA in television writing and producing. Shortly after graduating she was hired at WGN-TV, under legend Merri Dee who became her mentor. She worked with Ms. Dee writing and producing public service announcements.
Always desiring to write for television and film, Danita made the move to Los Angeles in 1995 and worked her way up from production assistant to writer’s assistant at Carsey-Werner. After her time at Carsey-Werner she moved on to “Sabrina, The Teenage Witch” as a writer’s assistant and there she received her first break as a writer and wrote episodes. Danita became a member of the WGA in 1998. A year after leaving Sabrina, she received the call of her life, she was hired as a staff writer on “Frasier” in 2002. Here a little black girl from the Westside of Chicago, known as one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago, writing on “Frasier”. It was more than a dream come true.
After her time at “Frasier” she ventured into feature films, writing a film for State Street Productions, “Fish Market”. Doing punch up on “Food Fight,” a film for Threshold/Lions Gate, starring Hilary Duff. Feature films turned out to not be as lucrative as she had hoped and with sitcom work dwindling because of Reality TV, Danita went where the industry went, Reality TV.
She started from the ground up, again, by being a logger, swiftly moving to Associate Story Producer for “Surreal Life Fame Games,” and “My Fair Brady,” Story Producer for “Celebrity Rehab,” “Tori and Dean: Sweet Home Hollywood” and “Redemption Song.”
In the midst of the reality years, Danita partnered with actor/comedian Yul “Spencer” and developed the company Shoshin Entertainment. They have films in development and are co-hosting their weekly podcast, “Me and Ms. Jones,” which can be found on their website, NBNToday.com (a funny source for news) and Itunes. They are currently in preproduction for “Spencer’s” one man show, “One Show at a Time: Spencer Interrupted,” opening June of 2009 in Hollywood, CA.
Danita Jones is repped by Paradigm Agency.