Gleisner co-founded Working Dog Productions with Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy, and Rob Sitch when The Late Show ended. Frontline, their first endeavor, aired on ABC from 1994 to 1997.
Gleisner was a writer, producer, and director who also played Colin Konica, a photocopy repairman, in a supporting capacity.
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Classical Gleisner co-created and contributed as a writer, producer, and director to the 1995 Working Dog comedy Funky Squad on ABC, playing the role of mute cop Poncho. The films The Dish (2000), Any Questions for Ben (2007), and The Castle (1997) are co-authored by Gleisner for Working Dog (2012).
Additionally, he served as host and co-executive producer of The Panel, a famous Network Ten program (1998–2004).
Gleisner co-hosted the ABC TV fly-fishing documentary A River Somewhere with Rob Sitch (1997–1998).
Nevertheless, he did appear frequently as a guest star (more significantly in the second season, to take the place of Rob Sitch, who was balancing writing and playing for the program with his studies), and on the album The Satanic Sketches.
Later, Gleisner would play on the D-Triple Gen’s M radio program from the late 1980s (and its spin-off record The Breakfast Tapes), before appearing on and contributing to ABC’s The Late Show (1992–1993).