Lazlow Jones

Jeffrey Crawford Lazlow Jones born September 4 1973 is an American writer producer director voice actor and radio announcer He is best known for his time as cochair of the Rockstar Games Production Department responsible for ingame creative audio and video content working directly for and writing with Rockstar cofounder and Head of Creative Dan Houser During his career at Rockstar Games his primary responsibilities were as a director producer and writer for the Grand Theft Auto Red Dead Redemption Max Payne Bully and Midnight Club series as well as the voice over director for Manhunt 2 and was part of Rockstars production team for The Warriors and LA Noire the latter of which he also contributed some writing to Lazlow also hosted his own reallife radio shows Lazlows Technofile which for a time was syndicated on radio stations across the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s and The Lazlow Show which began airing on New York Citys KRock in 2005 before moving to the Opie Anthony Channel branded at the time as The Virus as part of the channels Saturday Night Virus lineup on XM Satellite Radio in 2006 in 2009 XM and Sirius Satellite Radio merged to become the single entity known as SiriusXM Due to the merger and a resulting disagreement in regards to the shows budget it eventually began airing from the Long Island basement studio known amongst fans as The Compound of thenOpie Anthony Show cohost Anthony Cumia The Lazlow Show officially ran from 2005 to 2010 on a mostly irregular schedule at times with many months passing between episodes due to Lazlows increasingly heavy workload at Rockstar Overall 52 episodes of The Lazlow Show were broadcast live over the course of ten years Behind the scenes Lazlow was one of the writers of the games script providing political and cultural satire on the radio and writing dialogue for street NPCs Lazlow arranged voice cameos in the Grand Theft Auto games for several key figures many of whom are reallife friends of his such as Reed Tucker Wayne Big Wayne Oliver Fred Armisen Frank Chavez Anthony Cumia Patrice ONeal Bill Burr Wil Wheaton Gregg Opie Hughes Jim Norton Sam Roberts Joe DeRosa Robert Kelly Jim Florentine Club Soda Kenny and Couzin Ed who would eventually join Rockstar as a fulltime employee and even members of his own family for example his father can be heard as the caller who mentions Gardening with Maurice on Chatterbox FM He even arranged voice cameos for members of the hacker magazine 2600 The Hacker Quarterly including Emmanuel Goldstein Bernie S and Kevin Mitnick In April 2020 Lazlow resigned from Rockstar Games during the COVID19 pandemic to care for his sister and family Exactly a year later Lazlow joined Dan Housers next company Absurd Ventures