David Steinberg
- Directing
- August 9, 1942 · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Steinberg (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the United States. He appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show more than 130 times (second only to Bob Hope in number of appearances) and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person ever to guest-host. Steinberg directed several films and episodes of many of the most successful television situation comedies of the last twenty years, including Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and more than 35 episodes of Designing Women. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Steinberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- From Darkness to Light · Self
- The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up · Executive producer
- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind · Self
- The Last Laugh · Self
- Being Canadian · Self
- When Jews Were Funny
- Quality Balls: The David Steinberg Story · Self
- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic · Self
- RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars · Self
- Inside Comedy · Self
- Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Standup · Director
- Living in Your Car · Director, Executive producer
- Help Me Help You · Director
- Carlos Mencia: No Strings Attached · Director
- Sons & Daughters · Director
- Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg · Self
- Weeds · Director
- The Aristocrats · Self
- The Comeback · Director
- One by One · Associate Producer
- Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour · Self
- What's Up, Peter Fuddy? · Director
- Big Sound
- Curb Your Enthusiasm · Director
- Even Stevens · Director
- Switching Goals · Director
- Living in Captivity · Director
- The Wrong Guy · Outpatient, Director
- Cats Don't Dance · Executive producer
- Ink · Director
- The Daily Show · Self
- The Parent 'Hood · Director
- Friends · Director
- It Had to Be You · Director
- Daddy Dearest · Director
- Rick Reynolds: Only the Truth Is Funny · Director
- Mad About You · Director, Bad Eulogizer
- Kevin Pollak: Stop With The Kicking · Director
- The One, the Only... Groucho · Narrator
- Good Grief · Producer
- Get a Life · Director
- Evening Shade · Director
- Dad's A Dog · Charles Dryden
- Seinfeld · Director
- I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood · Executive producer
- Annie McGuire · Director
- Family Man · Director
- Eisenhower and Lutz · Director
- Playboy Video Magazine, Volume 12 · Self
- Duet · Director
- Designing Women · Director, Writer
- Casey at the Bat · Director
- The Tommy Chong Roast
- The Twilight Zone · Director
- Tall Tales & Legends · Director
- The Golden Girls · Director
- The Comedy Factory · Director
- David Steinberg in Concert With John Candy · Self, Writer
- Going Berserk · Director, Writer
- Showbiz Goes to War · Self
- Newhart · Director
- Showbiz Ballyhoo · Self
- Paternity · Director
- Fridays · Self
- Nothing Personal · Talk Show Host
- Something Short of Paradise · Harris Sloane
- The End · Marty Lieberman
- The 2nd Annual HBO Young Comedians Show · Self
- On Location: David Steinberg · Self
- The Sonny and Cher Show
- Dinah! · Self
- Energy Crisis · Self
- The Jews of Winnipeg · Self
- A Night Train to Terror · Paul
- The Bobby Darin Show
- The David Steinberg Show
- The Odd Couple · David Steinberg
- The Flip Wilson Show · Self
- Fearless Frank · The Rat
- The Music Scene