Charlie Grandy

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Charlie Grandy
Born
Charles Brendan Grandy [1]

(1974-03-05) March 5, 1974 (age 50)
Occupation(s) Stand-up comedian, television writer, producer
Years active1999present
Spouse
Sage Davis
(m. 2004)

Charles Brendan Grandy (born March 5, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian, television writer and producer. He began his career on the television series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , Saturday Night Live , The Office , and Guys With Kids . Grandy has had a string of collaborations with actress and producer Mindy Kaling through The Mindy Project , Champions , Four Weddings and a Funeral, and The Sex Lives of College Girls . He is the son of former Love Boat star turned politician Fred Grandy.

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Career

After working as a stand-up comedian, [2] Grandy turned to television writing and became a writer on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in 2001. After his Daily Show stint, Grandy became a writer and producer on Saturday Night Live, where he worked until 2008. He worked on the Weekend Update sketch. [1] In the same year, he joined the writing staff of the fifth season of the American version of The Office. At the beginning of the sixth season he became a co-producer and by the time the show entered its seventh season, he had become a supervising producer of the series. [3] After the cancellation of his show, Guys With Kids , he joined his former Office cohort, Mindy Kaling, on the second season of her show, The Mindy Project , as a writer and co-executive producer. In 2018, Grandy and Kaling created the NBC show Champions . [4] He served as an executive producer on Kaling's 2019 miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral . [5]

He is a writer for The Sex Lives of College Girls , another Kaling production and is credited with writing two episodes.

Writing credits

YearTitleNotes
2001–2008 Saturday Night Live 127 episodes credited as a writer; 4 episodes credited as "written by"
2008–2012 The Office Episodes written:
  1. Season 5, Episode 5 – "Crime Aid" (October 23, 2008)
  2. Season 5, Episode 25 – "Broke" (April 23, 2009)
  3. Season 6, Episode 9 – "Double Date (November 5, 2009)
  4. Season 6, Episode 18 – "The Delivery, Part Two" (March 4, 2010)
  5. Season 7, Episode 3 – "Andy's Play" (October 7, 2010)
  6. Season 7, Episode 23 – "The Inner Circle" (May 5, 2011)
  7. Season 8, Episode 3 – "Lotto" (October 6, 2011)
  8. Season 8, Episode 19 – "Get the Girl" (March 15, 2012)
2013–2014 The Mindy Project Episodes written:
  1. Season 2, Episode 7 – "Sk8er Man" (November 5, 2013)
  2. Season 2, Episode 12 – "Danny Castellano Is My Personal Trainer" (January 7, 2014)
  3. Season 2, Episode 19 – "Think Like A Peter" (April 15, 2014)
2018 Champions Episodes written:
  1. Season 1, Episode 1 – “Pilot” (March 8, 2018)
  2. Season 1, Episode 2 – “I Think I’m Gonna Tolerate It Here” (March 15, 2018)
  3. Season 1, Episode 4 – “My Fair Uncle” (April 5, 2018)
  4. Season 1, Episode 10 – “Deal or No Deal” (May 25, 2018)
2019 Four Weddings and a Funeral Episodes written:
  1. Season 1, Episode 5 – “Love, Chalet” (August 7, 2019)
  2. Season 1, Episode 8 – “Game Night” (August 28, 2019)
2021-present The Sex Lives of College Girls Episodes written:
  1. Season 1, Episode 4 - "Kappa" (November 25, 2021)
  2. Season 1, Episode 8 - "The Surprise Party" (December 2, 2021)
2023-present Velma Episodes written:
  1. Season 1, Episode 1 – “Velma” (January 12, 2023)
  2. Season 1, Episode 9 – "Family (Wo)man" (February 9, 2023)
  3. Season 1, Episode 10 – "The Brains of the Operation" (February 9, 2023)
  4. Season 2, Episode 1 – "The Mystery of Teen Romance" (April 25, 2024)
  5. Season 2, Episode 10 – "Til Death" (April 25, 2024)

Personal life

Grandy married Sage Davis in July 2004. [1] He is the son of actor and politician Fred Grandy and his first wife Jan (née Gough); his parents divorced in 1983. Grandy graduated from Harvard University. [1] [6]

Awards and nominations

Grandy has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for The Daily Show the other for Saturday Night Live. [7] In 2009 he received two Writers Guild of America award nominations, one for the fifth season of The Office and another for writing the episode Broke. [8]

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