Joe Davola

Who is Joe Davola?

Joe Davola is an American television and film; producer, director and writer.

Davola is a partner with Brian Robbins in Awesomeness TV which sold to Dreamworks Animation in May of 2013 Davola previously collaborated with Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins on projects for their production company, Tollin/Robbins Productions. Some projects include All That, The Amanda Show, The Nick Cannon Show, One Tree Hill, What I Like About You, The Bronx Is Burning, and Smallville.

Born and raised on the streets of Rosedale NY, Davola started his career at MTV as an associate producer and due to his amazing creativity and vision rose to one of the channels Top Executive Producers. He co-created the cult game show Remote Control. He went on to Fox Broadcasting Company as Senior Vice President of Development, where he developed the Emmy Award-winning shows In Living Color and The Ben Stiller Show. Davola then returned to MTV in 1993, where as senior vice president of development and production, he started MTV Films, MTV Home Video and MTV Productions. From MTV he went to DreamWorks television where he was involved in the development of the hit ABC show Spin City. The character "Crazy" Joe Davola on the sitcom Seinfeld was named after him.