David Misch

David Misch has been a comic folksinger, stand-up comedian and screenwriter. He’s written, created and/or produced programs for all the major networks and many of the major (and minor) cable outlets, including the multiple-Emmy-nominated “Mork and Mindy”, the Emmy-losing “Duckman”, the Emmy-ignored “Police Squad!”, the Emmy-engorged “Saturday Night Live”, and the Emmy-ineligible “The Muppets Take Manhattan”.

David's written “Funny: The Book” (Applause) and “A Beginner's Guide To Corruption” and his writing has been included in “May Contain Nuts” (Harper-perennial) and “Faith: Believers, Agnostics, and Atheists Confront the Big Questions” (Simon & Schuster); he also blogs for The Huffington Post and his play “Pretty Naked People” premieres next year in Los Angeles.

David’s taught comedy at USC, musical satire at UCLA, and lectured at Yale, Columbia, Oxford, the Smithsonian Institute, University of Sydney (Australia), the Actors Studio, American Film Institute, the Grammy Museum, Second City (Los Angeles), the Burbank and North Carolina Comedy Festivals, Ojai and Austin Film Festivals, Lucasfilm, and the VIEW Cinema Conference (Torino, Italy). More at davidmisch.com.