Todd Glass Hosts "Big Shot Live"

Today's LAist has an interview with comedian Todd Glass, one of the hosts of the intriguing new web series, "Big Shot Live,"which flies aspiring comedians, musicians, actors and models out to LA and documents their lives as they pursue their goals of becoming huge.

One of the stipulations of Big Shot Live is that you cannot be a convicted felon.

I think that's going to eliminate a lot of good people, unfortunately (laughs). It's for safety reasons. If I have to spend four days with the contestants, I'd prefer it if they not be murderers.

As a young person, would you have entered a show like this?
I think so. People can upload their stand-up or a short film and they could be flown out right away and we'll try to help them out. It's not at all negative. That's actually one of the things that I wanted to know for sure before I agreed to participate in this, which was that it not be like one of those reality TV shows where you can see that people are being clearly manipulated. So if they would have told me, "This kid's going to come and you're going to tell him that he's talentless and he's going to start to cry," I wouldn't have gotten involved. What I like about Big Shot Live is the act of helping somebody. It's not one of these negative reality shows where the judge is always shitting on somebody.

What are you waiting for comedy faithful? Get on it! We want to see you on the net!