Elisha Yaffe

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About Elisha Yaffe

Elisha Yaffe is an producer, writer, and comedian. He got his start as a stand up, cutting his teeth at famed clubs like The Comedy Studio, Caroline’s on Broadway, and Stand Up NY. His sketches & shorts have been viewed by a whole bunch of folks online, many festivals, and featured on Short of the Week, The Today Show, and MSNBC. As a writer and producer, he’s sold ½ hours to Warner Horizon, TBS, SuperDeluxe, and showran an 8 episode series for go90 and Complex Networks. In 2022, Elisha founded Cult Status, a boutique production company with a focus on creative development and branded producing. That year, he produced work for Playstation and Reebok. In January of 2023, Cult Status had two world premieres at the Slamdance Film Festival, taking home the audience award in the Episodes category for the pilot Honeycomb. Their other Slamdance project, a short film Write a Song About Heartache, is currently being developed as a feature film with support from Brain Dead Studios. As an actor, Elisha can be seen as Lance the copy guy on Better Call Saul and as the voice of Jimmy Olsen on Tales of Metropolis. He's guested and co-starred on Mad Men, Southland, Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood, The Newsroom, CSI: NY, Comedy Bang! Bang, The New Normal, and Hollywood Darlings. He also recurred in Samsung’s “Next Big Thing” campaign and has appeared in national commercials for brands like Hanes, Nintendo, Wendy’s, Honda and Progressive. He has a son name Theo who he loves a lot and his wife Kaitlin is a much better writer than him.