Creative Artists Agency
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is an American entertainment and sports talent agency that represents actors, directors, writers, musicians, athletes, and digital creators across film, television, music, and sports. The company also offers services such as brand marketing, corporate and digital media advisory, and talent-led business ventures.www.caa.com
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Oct 27, 2026
Rory NatkielGUEST
I think the root cause is because the sponsorship sector evolved around more of a talent agent model.
Rory NatkielGUEST
So when it first emerged, the agencies that stepped in to serve the rights holders were Wasserman, CAA, IMG.
Rory NatkielGUEST
They were talent agents because some of the athletes had talent agents.
Rory NatkielGUEST
And so it made sense.
Paul Mark MorrisHOST
It would be like going to, you know, the, again, a talent agency is somewhat analogous.
Paul Mark MorrisHOST
So it's like, if you talk to the person who runs CAA and be like, Oh, so do you do you do film or do you do sports? And they're like, if you're asking the individual, like, Aaron, do you do film or do you do sports? And the head of CAA is like, like, actually, I don't do anything, you know, right? Yeah.
Paul Mark MorrisHOST
But I have agents.
Paul Mark MorrisHOST
I have a whole sports division.
Marcia KimptonGUEST
And he doesn't mention me in it.
Marcia KimptonGUEST
I was his first client at CAA, and he dated my best friend.
Marcia KimptonGUEST
girlfriend um in high school we went to the same high school in new tour chicago and he really did a great job getting a bidding war between fox and nbc and then nbc drops us going for friends so at least i'm able to say that but um but we should have gone with fox the point is i'm not mentioning his book and he wouldn't answer my phone call many years later and i've done a lot i've done seven films people don't know about them but i've I've done a lot, and I've done a web series, and I had my own late night show out of San Francisco, where in 1998, I met every single male executive in Hollywood, and they said, the world isn't ready for a woman in late night.
Marcia KimptonGUEST
Now, Joan Rivers did it, and then eventually Chelsea Handler did it.
Josh BrolinGUEST
So I went out and I kind of wrote, I went in the desert and wrote 40 or 50 pages that were really .
Josh BrolinGUEST
And I gave them to my agent, my acting agent in the literary part of CAA.
Josh BrolinGUEST
And then I went out and I started giving it to other people.
Josh BrolinGUEST
And there's this girl, Kimberly Witherspoon, whose first client was Anthony Bourdain when she was 20 years ago or whatever.
KneonHOST
Here's the problem.
KneonHOST
that's that's me and i have made people cry at various places i've worked myself included anyway i have i have and i'm sorry i do feel bad after the fact word traveled fast around netflix that the meeting had gone south at which point sources said bajaria called gerwig's producer amy pascal who's in charge of the spider-man movies to smooth things over two sore two sources also said gerwig's new all-powerful caa agent brian lord went to ted sarandos himself over the faux pas oh
Geeky SparklesHOST
for fuck's sake so basically she went crying to her agent basically what it sounds like to me is he dismissed her because she was full of shit and her stuff probably looked like dog shit and she was probably being like well i'm you know whatever
KneonHOST
and i'm gonna change everything
KneonHOST
Word traveled fast around Netflix that the meeting had gone south, at which point sources said Bajaria called Gerwig's producer Amy Pascal, who's in charge of the Spider-Man movies, to smooth things over.
KneonHOST
Two sources also said Gerwig's new all-powerful CAA agent Brian Lord went to Ted Sarandos himself over the faux pas oh
Geeky SparklesHOST
for fuck's sake so basically she went crying to her agent basically what it sounds like to me is he dismissed her because she was full of shit and her stuff probably looked like dog shit and she was probably being like well i'm you know whatever and i'm gonna change everything about narnia to make it you know my feminist vision he's probably like yeah no and then she you know he just missed me and i'm gonna go cry to my agent because don't you know who i am
KneonHOST
Don't you know, I don't know if that's
Davis NoellGUEST
We actually liked the fact that it was not a entertainment talent agency.
Davis NoellGUEST
Endeavor and CAA both have very large film and TV talent agency businesses.
Davis NoellGUEST
The team did not at that point in time.
Davis NoellGUEST
It was only a sports agency and music agency.
Davis NoellGUEST
The other thing I would say is there are really, I don't know, four great global sports agencies today.
Davis NoellGUEST
The team is one of them.
Davis NoellGUEST
CAA's got a great sports business.
Davis NoellGUEST
UTA has a good one.
KneonHOST
Here's the problem.
KneonHOST
that's that's me and i have made people cry at various places i've worked myself included anyway i have i have and i'm sorry i do feel bad after the fact word traveled fast around netflix that the meeting had gone south at which point sources said bajaria called gerwig's producer amy pascal who's in charge of the spider-man movies to smooth things over two sore two sources also said gerwig's new all-powerful caa agent brian lord went to ted sarandos himself Over the faux pas.
Geeky SparklesHOST
Oh, for fuck's sake.
Geeky SparklesHOST
So she went crying to her agent.
Kurt AndersonGUEST
Yeah, so, you know, it was, you know, it was...
Kurt AndersonGUEST
I mean, it was still, you know, focused on big cities, and Los Angeles became one of those cities, and the Creative Artists Agency became one of those organizations.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Yes.
Kurt AndersonGUEST
Because they were scary, scary hegemons, like the New York Times was, who we had a column about, and then we effectively had a column about CAA in L.A.
Jeff WardHOST
But what would be reasonable to expect from Joe Buck to do? His agent calls, and I don't know if they're represented by some of the same people or not.
Jeff WardHOST
It's CAA, which is out of Los Angeles.
Jeff WardHOST
It represents everybody in the business.
Jeff WardHOST
And was the right thing to do is say, hey, man, I got an offer.
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