David Steinberg was born on August 9,1942 and is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author.
20 Facts About David Steinberg
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David Steinberg appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson more than 130 times and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person ever to guest-host.
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Since 2012, David Steinberg has hosted the interview program Inside Comedy on the Showtime network.
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David Steinberg was born on August 9,1942 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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David Steinberg is the son of Rabbi Yasha Steinberg, a strict, Romanian-born rabbi, and Ruth Steinberg.
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David Steinberg is the youngest of four children and has three older siblings: two older brothers, Hymie Steinberg and Fishy Steinberg, and one older sister, Tammy Lazer.
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David Steinberg finished school and was discovered by one of the founders of The Second City in Chicago, which he joined in 1964.
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In 1972, David Steinberg was best man at the wedding of his friend, the gangster Crazy Joe Gallo.
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David Steinberg appeared in two Broadway flops, Little Murders and Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights, which both closed within one week in 1967 and 1968, respectively.
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In 1972, Steinberg wrote and starred in The David Steinberg Show in the United States as a five-week summer replacement sketch comedy show.
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In 1975 David Steinberg hosted Noonday, a short-lived half-hour midday talk show on NBC.
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SCTV premiered the same week as The David Steinberg Show, and ran for six seasons; The David Steinberg Show lasted only one season.
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David Steinberg performed some notable stand-up comedy during the 1960s and '70s.
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David Steinberg released four comedy LPs, including The Incredible Shrinking God, which contains ten of his comedic sermons and mini-sermons recorded live during his stand-up routine at Second City.
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David Steinberg was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2003.
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David Steinberg married Judy Marcione in 1973 and they had two daughters.
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David Steinberg has received five Emmy Award nominations, winning two as one of the writers of Academy Awards programs in 1991 and 1992.
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David Steinberg received a CableACE Award in 1992 for his stand-up comedy Cats, Cops and Stuff.
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David Steinberg has been nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award twice: first in 1991 for the Seinfeld episode, The Tape, and again in 1996 for the Mad About You episode, The Finale: Parts II and III, and has been nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award and a Gemini, as well.
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In December 2016, David Steinberg was named a Member of the Order of Canada.