His mother
Geraldine Laybourne was the chairwoman of Oxygen Media,
which operates a cable television channel intended for women, and she
is a former president of Nickelodeon, the children's cable network. His
father
Kit Laybourne is a television producer, whose credits
include the series "Gullah Gullah Island" on Nickelodeon and "Liquid
Television" on MTV. He also wrote "The Animation Book" (1998), and is
an associate professor of media studies at the New School in New York.