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How Variety Business Managers Elite Honoree Matt Lichtenberg Became a Money Meister for Top Comedy Talent


Variety Business Managers Elite honoree Matt Lichtenberg has become a money meister for top comedy talent.

After closing the Improv comedy club in Hollywood, he’d go hang out at Canter’s Deli on Fairfax Avenue until the wee hours of the morning with Provenza and other rising young comics, including Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, George Wallace, Kevin Nealon, Dom Irrera and John Mendoza. Then he’d drive back to the apartment he shared with Provenza in Marina Del Rey and grab a few hours of sleep, before heading north again to his job at Price Waterhouse in Century City. Lichtenberg found his entre via a job at Jess Morgan & Co., a business management firm with a stable of high-profile music clients including Lionel Richie, Tina Turner and Linda Ronstadt.

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