As director and editor Brent Carpenter has worked nonstop moving between sitcoms and music specials including all of the Ringo Starr and the All Starr Band shows since 2003, Disney Sitcom Crash & Bernstein, Nickelodeon's True Jackson V.P, and the darkly humorous
Greg the Bunny (2002). Brent also directed a special "50th Birthday Film" for Billy
Crystal's birthday party, starring Rob Reiner, Martin Short and
Christopher Guest among many others.
Brent was Emmy and Grammy nominated in 1998 as co-producer on the
Robert Altman film
Robert Altman's Jazz '34 (1996). He also oversaw the editing of this jazz
spectacular, featuring a number of current jazz greats portraying jazz
stars of the 1930s.
Brent served as co-producer and editor on the first season of
The Larry Sanders Show (1992) helping to create
the backstage look that served the show so well. He was one of a number
of producers and the editor on the CBS comedy
Dave's World (1993), and has long
been involved in the world of comedy. He also served in that capacity
on the critically acclaimed HBO series
Sessions (1991) created by
Billy Crystal.
Brent started in television as a news photographer in Phoenix and
Minneapolis. Before becoming involved with television, he was a
roustabout in the Tulsa oil fields and cooked hamburgers. He prefers
television.