Spike Feresten was born on September 3,1964 and is an American television writer, screenwriter, comedian and television personality, who is best known for his work on Seinfeld, writing for David Letterman, and hosting the late night Talkshow with Spike Feresten from 2006 to 2009 on Fox.
10 Facts About Spike Feresten
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Spike Feresten is the former host of Esquire Network's series Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten.
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Spike Feresten was a screenwriter for the 2007 animated film Bee Movie.
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Spike Feresten lived with his parents, Mary Jo and Michael, and younger brother, Wally Feresten.
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Spike Feresten then attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he planned to prepare for a career in music.
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Spike Feresten moved from there to the writing staff of Late Night with David Letterman and then later the Late Show with David Letterman.
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Spike Feresten went on to write for The Dana Carvey Show, before getting his big break with The Simpsons and Seinfeld in 1995.
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Spike Feresten wrote one episode for The Simpsons during its seventh season, called "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", which aired on November 26,1995, in which Sideshow Bob escapes from prison and takes control of a TV screen at an airshow, demanding all television stations immediately go off the air.
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Spike Feresten has said that while he wrote and was credited for the script, it was completely rewritten keeping only the basic ideas intact, as that was usual writing process for the show.
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In 1995, Spike Feresten left the late-night realm to join the writing staff of the hugely successful sitcom Seinfeld during the show's seventh season, and stayed there for three seasons until the show's finale, becoming supervising producer in 1998.