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Alan Spencer is an American director and writer known for his work in comedy. [1] [2]
Spencer was born in Whittier, California. [3] He began his career in television writing at the age of 15. [3] [4] His initial work involved writing jokes for comedians. [3] His early success in television was marked by overcoming skepticism due to his young age. [3]
Spencer is best known for creating the 1980s comedy series Sledge Hammer! and later, IFC's Bullet in the Face. [5] [6] His early career was notable for his unconventional approach, including befriending industry figures such as Andy Kaufman and Marty Feldman by sneaking onto movie sets. [5] At 26, he created Sledge Hammer! for ABC, becoming one of the youngest creators of a network series at that time. [5] [4] The show gained a cult following and influenced later comedies, particularly in its offbeat style. [5]
Following the cancellation of Sledge Hammer!, Spencer worked on various projects, some of which remained unproduced. He developed a sitcom featuring Anthony Perkins after the show's end. [5] In 1990, he created The Ghost Writer for ABC, which was later considered by Fox but not produced due to its dark tone and Spencer's concurrent commitment to The Nutt House with NBC and Mel Brooks. [5] [7] In 1993, he wrote and directed Hexed. [8] Galaxy Beat (1994), a science fiction comedy, and The Tomorrow Man (1995), a science fiction film intended as a series pilot, were among his other projects. [5] [9]
In 2007, Spencer returned to television with Crime Team!, a parody of police procedurals co-created with Jim Abrahams for ABC. [5] He was also involved in the development of The Naked Gun: What 4? The Rhythm of Evil (2009), a proposed sequel to the original film series. [5] Despite a positive reception of the script and a planned role for Leslie Nielsen, budgetary constraints and creative differences led to Spencer's departure from the project, which was subsequently canceled. [5]
In 2010, Spencer developed Man Up! for SPIKE, in collaboration with Adam Sandler's Happy Madison. [5] The comedy, about a paramilitary group performing exercises in civilian areas, was not produced due to SPIKE's discontinuation of scripted programming. [5]
Martin Alan Feldman was a British actor, comedian and comedy writer. He was known for his prominent, misaligned eyes.
Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. He wrote the films Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). He both wrote and directed the films Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, Kaufman released his first novel, Antkind.
Alan Douglas Ruck is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Cameron Frye in John Hughes's film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), as well as television roles as Stuart Bondek on the ABC sitcom Spin City (1996–2002) and Connor Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018–2023), the latter earning him Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations.
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from September 23, 1986, to February 12, 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character.
Dweebs is an American sitcom that ran on CBS from September 22 to November 3, 1995. It failed to find an audience and was cancelled after 7 episodes, leaving 3 unaired.
David Rasche is an American theater, film, and television actor who is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1980s satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer! Since then he has often played characters in positions of authority, in both serious and comical turns. In television he is known for his main role as Karl Muller in the HBO drama series Succession and his role as Alden Schmidt in the TV Land comedy series Impastor, as well as recurring and guest performances in numerous programs including L.A. Law, Monk, The West Wing, Veep, Bored to Death, and Ugly Betty.
Robby Christopher Schrab is an American comic book creator, screenwriter, director, and producer. He is the creator of the comic book Scud: The Disposable Assassin, co-writer of the feature film Monster House, co-creator of the competitive film festival Channel 101, and the co-creator of Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program. He has directed three seasons of The Sarah Silverman Program and episodes of Childrens Hospital, Blue Mountain State, Community, Parks and Recreation, The Mindy Project, Workaholics, Creepshow, and the second revival season of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
The Last Remake of Beau Geste is a 1977 American historical comedy film directed, co-written and starring Marty Feldman. It is a satire loosely based on the 1924 novel Beau Geste, a frequently-filmed story of brothers and their adventures in the French Foreign Legion. The humor is based heavily upon wordplay and absurdity. Feldman plays Digby Geste, the awkward and clumsy "identical twin" brother of Michael York's Beau, the dignified, aristocratic swashbuckler.
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British sketch comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent, including Graham Chapman, Spike Milligan, Barry Cryer and Galton and Simpson. The sketches are linked by animation sequences overseen by Bob Godfrey's animation studio. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd.
The Naked Gun media franchise, also known as Police Squad!, consists of several American crime spoof-comedies, based on an original story written by the comedy filmmaking trio Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. The installments include one television series and three theatrical films. The plot centers on a police detective with a lot of heart, despite being less-than intelligent. Leslie Nielsen stars in each installment in the protagonist role of Detective Sergeant Franklin "Frank" Drebin, with a fourth film starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. in active development as of 2022.
Blue Mountain State is an American television sitcom that premiered on Spike on January 11, 2010. The series was created by Chris Romano and Eric Falconer, and produced by Lionsgate Television. The series is about a fictitious university, Blue Mountain State, and its football team, the "Mountain Goats". It portrays certain aspects of American university life, including college football, sex, binge drinking, drugs, wild partying, and hazing. Over the years, due in large part to being streamable on Netflix, the series has developed a cult following.
Joseph Mande is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor.
Family Man is an American sitcom which aired on ABC from March 18 to April 29, 1988. It starred Richard Libertini as a middle-aged comedy writer married to a much younger wife, and focused on the trials and tribulations he faced raising two stepchildren and one biological child. The series was created by Earl Pomerantz.
Bullet in the Face is a dark comedy television series developed by Alan Spencer. It premiered on IFC on August 16, 2012. It premiered in Canada on Super Channel on September 11, 2012. The series follows an ex-con, Gunter Vogler, who is recruited into the police force when he is betrayed by his partner and lover.
Great Minds with Dan Harmon is an American comedy television series that aired from February 25 to June 16, 2016 on History. The series stars writer Dan Harmon and his assistant Spencer Crittenden, who transport a series of historical figures to the present. The series is part of History's "Night Class" programming block and was available to stream on History's website and YouTube channel. The videos have since been removed but short clips are still available on YouTube.
Stan Against Evil is an American comedy horror television series created by Dana Gould. The series stars John C. McGinley, Janet Varney, Nate Mooney, and Deborah Baker Jr. The series premiered on IFC on October 31, 2016. A second season aired during November 2017 and a third in October and November 2018.
Diallo Riddle is an American writer, producer, actor, showrunner, and DJ. Riddle is best known for his co-starring role as Stevie in the NBC sitcom Marlon, and has been the co-creator of several different television series. He won an NAACP Image Award for his directing on South Side.
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