1. Steven Alexander Wright was born on December 6,1955 and is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer.
17 Facts About Steven Wright
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Steven Wright is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.
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Steven Wright's accolades include the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for starring in, writing, and producing the short film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings and two Primetime Emmy Awards nominations as a producer of Louie.
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Steven Wright's mother was Italian American, and his father of Scottish descent.
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Steven Wright's father worked as an electronics technician who "tested a lot of stuff" for NASA during the Apollo space program.
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Steven Wright attended Middlesex Community College in Bedford, Massachusetts, for two years to earn his associate degree, then continued his education at Emerson College.
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Steven Wright began performing stand-up comedy in 1979 at the Comedy Connection in Boston.
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Steven Wright cites stand-up comic George Carlin and director and former stand-up comic Woody Allen as comedic influences.
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Steven Wright supplied the voice of the radio DJ in writer-director Quentin Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs that year.
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In 1995, Steven Wright provided voiceover work for TBS's Disaster Area cartoon block.
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On September 25,2007, Steven Wright released his second album, I Still Have a Pony, a CD release of the material from When The Leaves Blow Away.
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Steven Wright joined a small cadre of Hollywood comedy celebrities who supported the show.
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Steven Wright was awarded an Oscar in 1989 for Best Short Live-Action Film for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, which he co-wrote and starred in.
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Steven Wright received two Emmy Award nominations as part of the producing team of Louie, first in 2014 and again in 2015.
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On December 15,2008, Steven Wright became the first inductee to the Boston Comedy Hall of Fame.
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Steven Wright was named No 23 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.
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Steven Wright is a musician and has recorded several non-comedy songs with his friend and occasional actor Mark Wuerthner.