28 Facts About Andy Borowitz

Andy Borowitz was born on January 4,1958 and is an American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor.

Andy Borowitz is known for creating the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and the satirical column The Borowitz Report.

Andy Borowitz was born to a marginally observant Reform Jewish family in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated from Shaker Heights High School.

Andy Borowitz studied with playwright William Alfred and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Restoration comedy.

Andy Borowitz wrote for various television series through the 1980s.

In 1998, Borowitz co-produced the film Pleasantville, starring Reese Witherspoon, Tobey Maguire, William H Macy, Joan Allen, and Jeff Daniels.

In 2004 Andy Borowitz appeared in Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, starring Will Ferrell, and in Marie and Bruce, starring Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick.

Andy Borowitz is a regular contributor to humor newspaper Funny Times.

Andy Borowitz's posts were featured on the home page of the blog and quickly became one of its most popular features.

Andy Borowitz's popularity surged during the 2008 campaign, leading The Daily Beast to call him "America's satire king".

In 2009, The Andy Borowitz Report began a Twitter feed, which was voted the number-one Twitter account in the world in a Time magazine poll in 2011.

On July 18,2012, Andy Borowitz announced that The New Yorker had acquired The Andy Borowitz Report website, the first time that the magazine had ever made such an acquisition.

In 2002, Andy Borowitz joined the staff of CNN's American Morning and soon appeared on the program three mornings a week.

Andy Borowitz has made numerous appearances on other television programs including Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Best Week Ever on VH1 and Live at Gotham on Comedy Central.

In 2010, Andy Borowitz appeared on the PBS show Need to Know.

Andy Borowitz performed to a sold-out house at the 2007 New York Comedy Festival, which featured other prominent comedians including Denis Leary, Bill Maher, and Sarah Silverman.

Andy Borowitz continued to tour the country performing stand-up, including a performance at the University of California, Santa Barbara in April 2008.

The university newspaper, Daily Nexus, reported that Andy Borowitz played to a packed house and had the audience "erupting with laughter".

In 1998, Andy Borowitz began contributing humor to The New Yorker magazine.

Andy Borowitz quickly became one of the magazine's most prolific humor contributors, writing dozens of essays including "Emily Dickinson, Jerk of Amherst", selected as one of the funniest humor pieces in the magazine's history and included in The New Yorker's humor collection Fierce Pajamas.

In 2009, Andy Borowitz was chosen by the National Book Foundation to host the National Book Awards in New York City.

Andy Borowitz's performance earned him a return engagement for the 2010 awards ceremony.

In 2011, Library of America chose Andy Borowitz to edit an anthology of American humor, The 50 Funniest American Writers.

In 2012, Andy Borowitz wrote his first autobiographical work, An Unexpected Twist, an Amazon Kindle single.

Since 1999, Andy Borowitz has been the primary host of The Moth, a New York-based storytelling group.

Andy Borowitz has taught screenwriting in the United States and Europe and is on the guest faculty of the Maurits Binger Film Institute in Amsterdam.

Andy Borowitz was married to Susan Borowitz, the co-creator of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Andy Borowitz has three children and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.