1. Paul E Dinello was born on November 28,1962 and is an American comedian, actor, and writer, best known for his collaborations with Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris.
24 Facts About Paul Dinello
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Paul Dinello's accolades include five Primetime Emmy Awards, three PGA Awards, and two WGA Awards.
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In 2005, Dinello became a writer and supervising producer for The Colbert Report and then The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Paul Dinello is the fourth of five siblings: Donna, Lori, Linda and David.
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Paul Dinello has said he had an "average middle class midwestern upbringing".
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Paul Dinello's uncle Dan Dinello, who piqued his interest in directing, is an independent filmmaker and professor emeritus at Columbia College Chicago.
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Paul Dinello attended Oak Park River Forest High School and during that time used to get in trouble a lot: "I didn't do things to be mean, I did things to amuse people and they turned out to be rotten", he has said, recalling an incident where he blew up fireworks in the student center.
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Paul Dinello worked at Allstate for a year, but quit to do stand-up.
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Paul Dinello had attended the Improv Institute and Annoyance Theatre.
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Paul Dinello served as a main writer with Sedaris and Colbert, and portrayed Jerri's naive and self-centered art teacher, Geoffrey Jellineck, seen throughout the series not actually teaching anything to his classes.
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Paul Dinello took inspiration for his character from a teacher he used to have in high school.
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Paul Dinello reprised his role of Geoffrey Jellineck for a film adaptation, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2005 and had a limited release in 2006.
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Paul Dinello directed and produced the film as well as co-wrote the screenplay with Sedaris and Colbert.
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In 2003, Paul Dinello co-wrote the novel Wigfield with Sedaris and Colbert, which they promoted by creating a traveling play.
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Since 2005 until the show's end in 2014, Paul Dinello worked as a writer and supervising producer for The Colbert Report.
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Paul Dinello made some appearances as Tad, the building manager.
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In 2008, Paul Dinello directed the Nickelodeon original movie Gym Teacher: The Movie, starring Christopher Meloni and Sedaris.
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Paul Dinello can be seen with Sedaris in the "Mummified Hand" episode of the Science Channel show Oddities.
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Paul Dinello sometimes appears on camera helping Colbert with some of the show's segments or on the cold open sketches.
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Paul Dinello is one of the people Colbert checks with to assess the quality of a piece, alongside Tom Purcell, Jon Stewart, and his wife Evie.
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Paul Dinello's office is on the same floor as Colbert's so they can consult with each other easily.
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Paul Dinello has said his creative influences include comedians Ernie Kovacs, Buster Keaton, Peter Sellers, Monty Python, The Three Stooges, Jack Lemmon; filmmakers Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Terry Gilliam, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick; and photographers: Diane Arbus and Mary Ellen Mark.
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Paul Dinello dated his Strangers with Candy co-star Amy Sedaris for eight years after they met at Second City.
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Paul Dinello met his wife, photographer Danielle St Laurent, while working on the artwork for the book Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People.