The League

Jeff Schaffer doesn’t want to talk about all the work he’s done. Don’t get him wrong, he wants you to know about it. He wants the adulation like a dog wants to stick his nose in your aunt’s crotch. But he doesn’t want to tell you himself. That’s like paying for sex, which Jeff would also like to take this opportunity to tell you he rarely does. And never in this country.
 
 
 He would love you to know that he’s spent many years working with Alec Berg and his TV highlights include Late Night with Conan O’Brien and four years of writing and producing Seinfeld, which they eventually helped run until the show was cruelly cancelled.
 

 
 
 He’s dying to hear how much you love his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He, Alec Berg and Dave Mandel have written the last four seasons with Larry and for the last three seasons they’ve been executive producers and directed half the season’s episodes. They were even nominated for an Emmy® and a DGA award this year. But he can’t tell you any of this. How cheesy do you think he is?
 
 
 He’s also been busy working on movies that he would love to be commended for, including Eurotrip (which was his first feature directing credit) and more recently, traveling around the world with Sacha Baron Cohen writing and producing Bruno and The Dictator. 
 
 
 

 
 
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 And now, thanks to his wife and creative partner Jackie, he has finally found a show that combines his greatest passions - football, spending time with his wife, and offending pretty much everyone. Working with her and this amazing cast and crew has been one of the craziest, and most fun things he’s ever done.
 
 
 Though his schedule has been hectic, Jeff has still found the time to regret this bio. He thinks the third person angle is bullshit and he sounds a bit full of himself.
 
 

 
 Jackie Marcus Schaffer’s parents wanted her to become a lawyer. And they were confused when after graduating from Georgetown University, she worked as an assistant at New Line Cinema.
 
 
 They were mildly amused when she was hired as a Creative Executive at Warner Bros. in Theatrical Production.
 
 
 They were less than thrilled when she became Vice President of Development and Production at Working Title Films during the making of High Fidelity, Bridget Jones' Diary and Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
 
 

 
 They hoped it was a phase when as a producer, she acquired and developed feature films including Old School, Eurotrip, Disturbia and Up In the Air - as well as television pilots for CBS and FOX.
 
 
 They have no idea that Jackie’s husband encouraged her to write a television pilot when she thought his devotion to four separate fantasy football leagues was a good idea for a show.
 
 In fact, her parents do not know that Jeff is a writer/ director and her creative partner on The League. They think Jeff is a doctor.
 
 
 
 Jackie hasn’t had the heart to tell them where she’s been while working long hours on The League. They think she’s finally taking her LSATs - so please don’t say anything.

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Working with his wife and this amazing cast and crew has been one of the craziest, and most fun things Jeff has ever done.

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About

Cast and Crew

Katie Aselton plays "Jenny," who is confident and outspoken. Jenny is a guy’s girl who rolls with almost anything and more than holds her own in this group. Last year Jenny played as dirty as any of them but came up short in her quest to repeat as champion. The solution? Play dirtier.

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Mark Duplass plays "Pete," a troublemaker who’s charming enough to talk his way out of 70% of the messes he gets himself and his friends into. Pete has successfully rebelled against adulthood: he may be a divorced man-child with an uninspiring job–but in fantasy football he’s a stud, lording over the League with ease and élan. The only thing he loves more than winning is rubbing it in– and thus has declared himself “Sacko Commissioner.” But this season the Sacko Commissioner faces his greatest challenge: Taco. How do you punish a guy who hardly knows he’s in a League. And things will get even rougher for Pete when his ex, Meegan (Leslie Bibb), comes back into the picture...

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Nick Kroll plays "Ruxin," who is educated yet crass, arrogant yet paranoid. Ruxin is in conflict with himself and the world most of the time. And even when he gets everything he wants, he still hates it. Ruxin is sure the other members of the League are colluding against him, and he’s usually right. This season, he can turn the tables when the fate of the very league itself rests in his hands...

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Jon LaJoie plays "Taco," Kevin's brother, part-time musician and full-time stoner. He’s actually won the League once – though he knows nothing about football. His current “job” is the president of Taco Corp, a company that has one employee and a worldwide headquarters – which is a van. Taco Corp’s last venture - the Eskimo Brothers Data Base sold to Mark Cuban, and now Taco’s moving into the hotel business with a bed and breakfast, the EBDBBnB, a place to meet and make new Eskimo Brothers.

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Stephen Rannazzisi plays "Kevin," the League Commissioner. He was the first one of the group to get married and have a kid, which makes him as close as it gets to an adult in this group. He started the League because he thought it would be fun but has now realized it just means babysitting seven more children. His wife, Jenny, used to be the brains of his football operation, but now that she has her own team in the League, he’s on his own. He would like to have another child and another championship but his prospects for both seem pretty bleak.

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Paul Scheer plays "Andre," who was the punching bag of the group in high school. Now that he’s a well-established plastic surgeon and is by far the most successful...absolutely nothing has changed. His friends still pick on him, get into his head, and rattle him into bad trades and stupid mistakes. At the end of last season, Andre lost his restaurant, but won the Shiva, and the Laguna Beach house that came with it. The fact that it burned down seconds after he won it has not deterred Andre from celebrating “The Year of the Dre.”

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