Garson Kanin
American film and theatre director, playwright, screenwriter (1912-1999)
David Benjamin Wainis an American comedian, writer, actor, and director. He has co-written and directed six feature films, including Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Role Models (2008), Wanderlust (2012), and They Came Together (2014).
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About the David Wain
David Benjamin Wainis an American comedian, writer, actor, and director. He has co-written and directed six feature films, including Wet Hot American Summer (2001), Role Models (2008), Wanderlust (2012), and They Came Together (2014). He has also served as a creator, producer, writer and director on a number of television series, including Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Childrens Hospital, and Medical Police. He has had small roles in most of the films and TV series he has produced or directed. Wain had a starring voice role as The Warden on the 2008-2014 Adult Swim animated series Superjail!, and has provided the voices for Courtney Wheeler and Grover Fischoeder on Bob’s Burgers since 2012.
He began his career as a member of the sketch comedy troupe The State. The group had their own TV show on MTV from 1993 to 1995, The State, for which Wain directed many of the sketches. He is also a member of the comedy trio Stella, along with two other members of The State who were also involved in Wet Hot American Summer, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. The three wrote and starred in short films or skits called the Stella shorts, as well as the 2005 TV series Stella.
7 Quotes by David Wain
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We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights – that would have changed things so much that it’s almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.
David WainAmerican writer, director, actor and comedian
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Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.
David WainAmerican writer, director, actor and comedian
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I was hired to do this one great script called ‘Cap’n Ricky’ and that project is up in the air at the moment.
David WainAmerican writer, director, actor and comedian
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I love summer. Because it means I can wear a bikini top and shorts, even just to go shopping.
David WainAmerican writer, director, actor and comedian
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I don’t believe in paying for sex. Which is why I’ll never again pay for a woman’s dinner.
David WainAmerican writer, director, actor and comedian
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Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that.
David WainAmerican writer, director, actor and comedian
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Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
David WainAmerican writer, director, actor and comedian