Steve Ochs

A recovering stand up comic, Ochs (pronounced Oaks) returned to the live stage after a seventeen-year break with “Life in the Middle Ages,” a one man show about midlife crisis for the Hollywood Fringe Fest. The show was named “Best of the Fest for Comedy” and enjoyed a critically praised extended run

Like “Life in the Middle Ages,” MIDMEN is the result Ochs’ own midlife crisis about ten years ago. Jolting in at 7.2 on the midlife crisis Richter scale, his instinctive reaction to this unexpected continuing-to-be-alive problem was to try and solve it. Writing MIDMEN was less a labor of commercial output and far more an exercise of the very methods the book advocates. You’d know what that meant if you’d read the book. If you do read the book, come back and read this again.

Long before MIDMEN, author Steve Ochs rode the stand up comedy wave of the 80’s and 90’s making many television appearances on all of the major networks, Comedy Central and Showtime. He also scored a couple of Star Search wins, one of which led to a re-match on a Howard Stern pay-per-view special. The highpoint of his stand up career was having his idol Richard Pryor call him, “One funny motherf*cker.”

After leaving stand up, Steve penned dozens of episodes of the multiple Emmy winning series Rugrats, as well as Disney’s Recess, HBO’s Crashbox and many more. His other TV credits include work for Disney, ABC, Fox, Fox Family and Nickelodeon. Most recently, he served as co-executive producer and on air talent for Culture Click, which aired on ABC. He also produced two joke books for National Lampoon.