Chicago native Scott Zabielski began his career after earning a BA in Cinema Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He worked producing and editing promos, movie trailers and reality shows before moving into comedy.
Zabielski produced and edited the pilot of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 and quickly rose to director/EP where he helmed the show for nearly 200 episodes.
He also wrote and directed the Super Bowl commercial Middle Seat for Doritos, winning $1 million when his spot was voted as the favorite from thousands of submissions around the world. The ad was also chosen as the #1 thirty second spot in USA Today’s Ad-Meter.
Zabielski developed Police Academy for New Line/Warner Bros and co-wrote/directed Where’s The Money starring Terry Crews, Mike Epps and Method Man for Lionsgate.
He co-created and wrote, directed and showran three seasons of The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central and directed three of Jefferies’ comedy specials for Netflix. Scott also worked with John Cena and Nicole Byers directing the comedy/host segments on TBS’ Wipeout.
He developed the pilot of TBS’s “Am I The Asshole?” hosted by Rob Riggle which he also Executive Produced alongside Bill Burr.
Scott is currently serving as the Chief Content Officer for AI startup Channel 1.