About Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
- Released on May 28, 1995
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999—with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002—starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman. The show was created by a Burbank, California production company Popular Arts Entertainment, with Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder, developed and first made by Popular Arts for HBO Downtown Productions. Boston-based Tom Snyder Productions became the hands-on production company, and the episodes were usually produced by Katz and Loren Bouchard.
The show was computer animated in a crude, easily recognizable style produced with the software Squigglevision in which all persons and animate objects are colored and have constantly squiggling outlines, while most other inanimate objects are static and usually gray in color. The original challenge Popular Arts faced was how to repurpose recorded stand-up comedy material. To do so they based Dr. Katz's patients on stand-up comics for the first several episodes, simply having them recite their stand-up acts. The secondary challenge was how to affordably animate on cable TV at the time. Snyder had Squigglevision, an inexpensive means of getting animation on cable, which could not afford traditional animation processes. A partnership between Popular Arts, Tom Snyder Productions and Jonathan Katz was formed and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist was born.
Main Cast of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Jonathan Katz plays Dr. Katz (voice) (81 episodes)
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Will LeBow plays Stanley (voice) (81 episodes)
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Discover the backstage crew of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist →
- Mitch Hedberg
- Kathy Griffin
- Steven Wright
- Robert Schimmel
- Wendy Liebman
- Tom Kenny
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Mark Schiff
- Paul F. Tompkins
- Gilbert Gottfried
- Bobby Slayton
- Patton Oswalt
- Winona Ryder
- Marc Maron
- Lew Schneider
- Jeff Garlin
- Louis C.K.
- Elayne Boosler
- Denis Leary
- Richard Lewis
- David Duchovny
- Conan O'Brien
- Ben Stiller
- Dick Smothers
- John Pinette
- Sandra Bernhard
- Garry Shandling
- Janeane Garofalo
- Anthony Clark
- Laura Kightlinger
- Dom Irrera
- Caroline Rhea
- Bob Odenkirk
- Barry Sobel
- Brian Kiley
- Emo Philips
- Al Franken
- Dave Attell
- Tom Agna
- Ray Romano
- Jim Gaffigan
- Michael Rowe
- Tom Smothers
- Brian Regan
- Joy Behar
- Judy Tenuta
- Rita Rudner
- Larry Miller
- Robert Klein