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| x Lorne Michaels |
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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
Michaels was...
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| x Steve Martin |
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Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. He was raised in Southern California in a Baptist family, where his early influences were working at Disneyland...
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| x James Bobin |
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Flight of the Conchords |
James Bobin is a British film director, writer, and producer. He has worked as a director and writer on the The 11 O'Clock Show and Da Ali G Show, and helped create the characters of "Ali G", "Borat", and "Bruno".. In 2003 and 2004, he directed and...
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| x Michael Showalter |
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The State |
Michael English Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is one third of the sketch comedy trio Stella. Showalter first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's The State, which aired from 1993 to...
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| x Allan Katz | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Allan Katz, born in Chicago, is a writer, producer, actor, and director.
He began his writing career as an advertising copywriter. In 1970 he created the original award-winning campaign for the popcorn snack Screaming Yellow Zonkers which was the...
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| x Allan Manings | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Allan Manings is a former television producer and comedy writer. He was active in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Canadian Manings is responsible for creating the Norman Lear-developed show, One Day at a Time, as well as serving as producer (and later...
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| x Barry Took | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Barry Took (19 June 1928 – 31 March 2002) was an English comedian, writer and television presenter. He is best remembered in the UK for his weekly role as presenter of Points of View, a BBC TV programme in which viewers' letters criticising or...
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| x Bill Richmond | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Bill Richmond is an American film, television comedy writer producer, musician, actor and composer. He co-wrote the screenplays to numerous popular films that starred Jerry Lewis. These films included The Nutty Professor, The Errand Boy and The...
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| x Chris Bearde | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Chris Bearde (born 18 June 1936) is a comedy writer, producer and director best known for creating the format for the original Gong Show and Sherman Oaks. He also co-wrote and produced specials for Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Sonny and Cher, Bill Cosby...
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| x Don Reo | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Don Reo is an American television writer and producer. He created such shows as Blossom for NBC and My Wife and Kids for ABC.
Other shows for which he has written include Everybody Hates Chris, M*A*S*H, Rhoda and The Golden Girls. He was also the...
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| x Hart Pomerantz | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Hart Pomerantz is a Canadian lawyer and television personality, best known for his collaboration with Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels in The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour.
However, Pomerantz is also well known to Canadian audiences...
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| x Jack Hanrahan | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Jack Hanrahan (1933 - April 28, 2008) was an American Emmy Award-winning comedy writer.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he began writing cartoons for the Cleveland Press. After that, he moved on to Hollywood, California and continued his writing career...
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| x Jeremy Lloyd | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Jeremy Lloyd (born 22 July 1930) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as the co-author of several successful British sitcoms.
The gangly Lloyd made his film debut in 1960 in School for Scoundrels, and appeared in numerous film and...
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| x Larry Siegel | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Larry Siegel is a comedy writer who was one of the "Usual Gang of Idiots" at MAD Magazine from 1958 to 1990.
At MAD, Siegel had an aggressive writing style that did not shy away from being occasionally provocative or inflammatory to make a point. He...
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| x Rowby Goren | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In |
Rowby Goren is an Emmy-winning writer specializing in comedy. He was a part of the writing team of the comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, created by George Schlatter. Goren's writing talents range from variety shows to situation comedy, game...
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| x Larry David |
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Seinfeld |
Lawrence Gene "Larry" David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian, producer, and film director. David is the co-creator and producer of two successful television comedies, Seinfeld (1989-1998) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000...
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| x Jerry Seinfeld |
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Seinfeld |
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American comedian, actor and writer, whose style is often described as observational comedy. Aside from being a stand-up comedian, he is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of...
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| x Peter Mehlman | Seinfeld |
Peter Mehlman is a television writer and producer. He attended the University of Maryland and was a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. His most famous contributions have been to the popular TV series Seinfeld, where he served as a producer...
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| x Larry Charles |
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Seinfeld |
Larry Charles (born February 20, 1956) is an American writer, director, and producer. He is best known as a staff writer for the American sitcom Seinfeld, contributing some of the show's darkest and most absurd storylines. He also directed the films...
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| x Tom Gammill | Seinfeld | ||
| x Max Pross | Seinfeld | ||
| x Alec Berg |
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Seinfeld |
Alec Berg is a comedy writer, best known as a writer for the sitcom Seinfeld. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the 2003 film version of The Cat in the Hat and the teen comedy EuroTrip in 2004. In addition, Berg is an executive producer of and...
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| x Jeff Schaffer | Seinfeld |
Jeff Schaffer is a television show writer and producer.
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| x Andy Robin | Seinfeld |
Andy Robin is a writer and director who started his career at Saturday Night Live and spent many seasons on NBC's Seinfeld, initially solo, later partnering with collaborator Gregg Kavet. Solo efforts include The Junior Mint; with Kavet The Jimmy...
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| x Gregg Kavet | Seinfeld |
Gregg Kavet is a writer and director who worked on NBC's Seinfeld for several seasons with collaborator Andy Robin. The team wrote episodes including "The Jimmy", "The Hot Tub", "The Caddy", "The Bottle Deposit", "The Fatigues", "The Comeback", "The...
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| x Spike Feresten |
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Seinfeld |
Michael Donovan "Spike" Feresten, Jr. is an American television writer, screenwriter and television personality.
Feresten was born in Fall River and raised in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he attended public schools. Feresten then attended...
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| x David Mandel |
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Seinfeld |
David Mandel (born 1971) is an executive producer and director of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and one of the producers of the teen-comedy Eurotrip. He was a writer for Seinfeld during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons. He is also one of the creators...
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| x Carol Leifer |
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Seinfeld |
Carol Leifer (pronounced LEE-fur; born July 27, 1956) is an American comedienne, writer, producer and actor whose career as a stand-up comedian started in the 1970s when she was in college. David Letterman discovered her performing in a comedy club...
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| x Jennifer Crittenden | Seinfeld |
Jennifer Crittenden (born 1969) is a television sitcom writer, who was educated at The Thacher School in Ojai, California and graduated from Wesleyan University. She has written episodes for several popular television shows of the 1990s, including...
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| x Steve Koren | Seinfeld |
Steven Wayne Koren is an American screenwriter. He was one of the writers for the movies Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty, Click, Superstar, and A Night at the Roxbury, and wrote for Saturday Night Live and Seinfeld.
Koren grew up in Queens, New York...
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| x Darin Henry | Seinfeld |
Darin Henry is an American television writer. He has written for many different television series, including Seinfeld, Futurama and The War at Home. He is married to actress Ursula Burton. He also wrote a Big Finish Doctor Who audio called The Game....
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| x Marjorie Gross | Seinfeld |
Marjorie Gross (April 18, 1956–June 7, 1996) was a television writer and producer. She wrote for such shows as Newhart, The Larry Sanders Show, Square Pegs and Seinfeld.
She may be best-known for writing many episodes of Seinfeld, including "The...
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| x Bill Masters | Seinfeld | ||
| x Tom Leopold | Seinfeld | ||
| x Elaine Pope | Seinfeld |
Elaine Pope is an American TV writer and stand-up comedian. She once dated Jerry Seinfeld, becoming good friends with him after they broke up, thus being an inspiration for the Elaine Benes character on the hit series Seinfeld, which she ended up...
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| x Bruce Kirschbaum | Seinfeld | ||
| x Bruce Eric Kaplan | Seinfeld |
Bruce Eric Kaplan, known as BEK, is an American cartoonist whose single-panel cartoons frequently appear in The New Yorker. Kaplan's cartoons are known for their signature simplistic style and often dark humor. Kaplan is also a screenwriter and has...
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| x Ron Hauge | Seinfeld |
Ron Hauge is an American television writer. In his earlier career Hauge was a contributor to National Lampoon. After this he wrote for Seinfeld, In Living Color, The Ren & Stimpy Show, and a short lived reincarnation of The Carol Burnett Show. He...
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| x Charlie rubin | Seinfeld |
Charlie Rubin is a professional writer who has written for many television shows, among them: Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Seinfeld (including "The Marine Biologist" episode) and Saturday Night Live. He is also a professor at NYU's Tisch School...
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| x Fred Stoller | Seinfeld | ||
| x Steve O'Donnell | Seinfeld |
Steve O'Donnell is a television writer. His credits include The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Late Night with David Letterman.
He has been the head writer of Jimmy Kimmel Live since the show's debut in January, 2003. He occasionally appears acting in...
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