David Javerbaum was hired as a staff writer with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 1999.
11 Facts About David Javerbaum
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David Javerbaum was promoted to head writer in 2002 and became an executive producer at the end of 2006.
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David Javerbaum was one of the three principal authors of the show's textbook parody America : A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, which sold 2.6 million copies and won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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David Javerbaum became a consulting producer at the start of 2009 and spearheaded the writing of the book's 2010 sequel, Earth : A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race; his co-production of the audiobook earned the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Spoken-Word Album.
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In 2016 David Javerbaum co-created the Netflix sitcom Disjointed with Chuck Lorre.
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David Javerbaum was a consulting producer and one of three writers on Lorre's 2018 Netflix show The Kominsky Method.
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David Javerbaum wrote for the Late Show with David Letterman from 1998 to 1999.
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David Javerbaum co-authored Neil Patrick Harris's 2014 memoir, The Choose Your Own Autobiography of Neil Patrick Harris.
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David Javerbaum's mother is a former deputy New Jersey attorney general.
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David Javerbaum grew up in a Jewish household, attending Congregation Beth El in South Orange, New Jersey.
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David Javerbaum grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, where he attended Columbia High School, graduating in 1989.