Andy Borowitz Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the National Press Club Award for Humor, the first person to ever do so
• Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in English in 1980
• Quote: "I always wanted to be a writer and a performer, and that's what I've done my entire professional life․ I've been blessed in that I've never had a job where my sense of humor was stifled․"
• Quote: "We live in a culture now where our entertainment has had all the edges taken off․ Everything has been sanded down; it looks so polished․․․Most of the entertainment we get now has been so refined and so packaged that the spontaneity has disappeared․"
• Quote: "(On humor in the media): "We are judging our politicians based on the wrong performances, like how they were on TV․ How funny were they? How did Obama do on 'The Daily Show?' Well, how did he do in Afghanistan? Isn't that more important?""
• Has written three books: "The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers," "Governor Arnold: A Photodiary of His First Days in Office," and "Who Moved My Soap? The CEO's Guide to Surviving in Prison․"
• Created "The Borowitz Report" in 2001, which was picked up by The New Yorker in 2012
• Best known as a political humorist and as the creator and executive producer of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air․"
• Has appeared on CNN's "American Morning" and NPR's "Morning Edition" and writes for The New Yorker and The New York Times
• Often performed stand-up to warm up the live audience of the sitcoms that he produced