From KCRW in Santa Monica and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.

Everybody thinks your business, business, really, really, all right life.

He doesn't clean.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, the hard-knock's life of the stand-up comic, resisting the temptation to party too hard and twittering in search of a fan base.

We sit down with comedians, Paul F. Tompkins, Maria Bamford, and Al Madrigal.

But first, it's the Hollywood News banter. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood.

I'm joined in the studio by my fellow banterer John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John.

Hello, Kim.

Welcome back.

Well, thank you.

I had a wonderful time.

Netflix hopes it will have a wonderful time.

It's made a very striking deal.

It's foray into content creation. It is going to not just mail you programs and movies or stream them to you. It is going to create them for you, at least one, a big, expensive

series. Now, this is a very bold move by Netflix. They're working with David Fincher, who directed

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