WALTER NEWMAN IS THE director of comedy development for Adult Swim AND is responsible for developing and producing comedy live-action series and animated programming for THE NETWORK.  Newman supervises original Adult Swim live-action and animated comedies including “The Eric Andre Show,” “The Boondocks,” “Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule,” “Black Dynamite,” “China, IL,” and upcoming series including “Mike Tyson Mysteries.”  He was also an executive producer of Cartoon Network’s new sketch comedy series “Incredible Crew.” Prior to joining Adult Swim, Newman was a development executive at Comedy Central where he discovered and developed the comedy group “Mail Order Comedy” into the current HIT series “Workaholics.”  A GRADUATE OF UCLA, Newman also spent time in program development for VH1 as well as the film and TV production company Circle of Confusion.