Spike Feresten Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Episodic Comedy for the "Seinfeld" episode "The Soup Nazi" in 1997
• Attended the Berklee College of Music, where he was evicted from his dorm for dropping fluorescent lights out of his window
• Began his entertainment writing career on the TV series "Sunday Night" in 1988
• Started out as an intern at NBC in New York and later worked as a receptionist for "Saturday Night Live," where he got to tell some of his jokes to Dennis Miller of "Weekend Update․"
• Quote: "I don't really think about where the audience is, but I think about where I am as an audience, and what I would like to see, and then you hope people feel similar․ I think they want to laugh․"
• Best known as a writer for "Late Show with David Letterman" and as a writer and supervising producer for "Seinfeld․"
• Wrote and executive produced his own series, "Talkshow with Spike Feresten," from 2006 to 2009
• Has also written episodes of "The Simpsons," "Space Ghost Coast to Coast," and "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment․"