1. Wayne Federman was born on June 22,1959 and is an American comedian, actor, author, writer, comedy historian, producer, and musician.
51 Facts About Wayne Federman
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Wayne Federman is noted for numerous stand-up comedy appearances in clubs, theaters, and on television; his book on The History of Stand-Up; and supporting comedic acting roles in The X-Files, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Silicon Valley, Legally Blonde, 50 First Dates, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Step Brothers.
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Wayne Federman was the head monologue writer for NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in its first season.
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Wayne Federman won a 2022 Primetime Emmy Award for producing the HBO documentary George Carlin's American Dream.
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Wayne Federman grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and moved to Plantation, Florida at age 10.
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Wayne Federman played the drums and at age 14 began performing in a band at local weddings.
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Wayne Federman taught himself ventriloquism and performed at various school functions as well as local churches and service organizations.
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Wayne Federman delivered his high school's sports results on Miami radio station WWOK and made his local television debut on WPLG's Youth and the Issue debating the death penalty.
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In 1976, Wayne Federman worked as an extra in John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday, shot at the Miami Orange Bowl.
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Wayne Federman performed his own show, Comedy Tonight, at the Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, with future Broadway star Donna Murphy.
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Wayne Federman starred in the theater's long-running production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in which he played six roles.
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Wayne Federman closed his sets by playing hard rock tunes from Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, and The Rolling Stones on his electric ukulele.
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Wayne Federman made his national television debut on the syndicated stand-up program Comedy Tonight in 1986.
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Wayne Federman appeared in two home videos: New Wave Comedy and the Dodge Comedy Showcase.
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Wayne Federman co-founded the improvisational group "No Fat Guy" with Marc Raider, Scott LaRose, and Steve Hytner, and later briefly formed a music-comedy team with Jordan Brady.
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Wayne Federman gained some prominence as the first "not exactly" guy in the long-running Hertz Rent A Car campaign.
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In 1994, Wayne Federman made his debut on The Tonight Show and has subsequently appeared many times on the program.
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Wayne Federman appeared on Late Fridays, Comedy Showcase, and Premium Blend.
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In 1998, Wayne Federman portrayed Larry Sander's brother Stan on The Larry Sanders Show, and was later reunited with Garry Shandling on The X-Files episode "Hollywood AD".
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Wayne Federman became known for appearing in just one scene in a film and then disappearing; he calls this the "Federman-and-out".
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In 2006, Wayne Federman landed the recurring role of "Johnson" on the short-lived CBS sitcom Courting Alex.
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Wayne Federman co-wrote and starred in Max and Josh, a short film that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Volkswagen Relentless Drive Award.
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From 2007 to 2013, Wayne Federman wrote, produced, and hosted an annual holiday variety show entitled A Very Wayne Federman Christmas at the Los Angeles nightclub Largo.
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In 1990, while shooting a television commercial campaign for McDonald's, Wayne Federman recorded a series of tie-in radio commercials.
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Wayne Federman was the voice of the talking ham and cheese sandwich in the long-running Florida Orange Juice campaign.
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In 2007, Wayne Federman voiced a series of Labatt Beer commercials, portraying a fish, a deer, a boulder, and a slab of ice.
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In 2015, Wayne Federman voiced a camel in a GEICO insurance commercial.
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In 2022, Wayne Federman voiced a character for George Carlin's American Dream.
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In 2000, Wayne Federman began co-authoring a new, authorized biography of NBA basketball legend Pete Maravich.
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In 2000, Wayne Federman was interviewed for, and served as senior consultant on, the Emmy award-winning CBS Sports documentary, Pistol Pete: The Life and Times of Pete Maravich.
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Wayne Federman was featured on both ESPN SportsCentury : Pete Maravich and in ESPN's SEC Storied documentary entitled Maravich.
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In 2007, Wayne Federman edited a highlight montage entitled The Ultimate Pistol Pete Maravich MIX.
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Wayne Federman co-wrote several songs for the film Dill Scallion and was the music director and keyboardist for Maria Bamford's critically acclaimed The Special Special Special.
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In 2009, Wayne Federman moved to New York to help launch NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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Wayne Federman was the show's head monologue writer in its first season and left in January 2010.
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In July 2010, Wayne Federman was part of the last comedians to tour and perform for US combat troops throughout Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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In June 2011, Wayne Federman headlined the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain along with James Hill.
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In 2014, Wayne Federman appeared with singer Kenny Rogers in a national GEICO commercial.
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In 2012,2013,2014, and 2015, Wayne Federman co-wrote the Independent Spirit Awards, hosted by Seth Rogen, Andy Samberg, Patton Oswalt, and the team of Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell respectively.
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Wayne Federman received three Writers Guild of America Award nominations and one Emmy Award nomination for his work.
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Wayne Federman wrote on the Creative Arts Emmys, Critics Choice Awards, and The Golden Globes, the DGA Awards, and the SAG Awards.
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From March 2015 until December 2017, Wayne Federman co-hosted the podcast Human Conversation with comedian Erin McGathy.
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Wayne Federman launched a new podcast in September 2018 entitled, The History of Standup.
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In 2018, Wayne Federman co-produced the Emmy-winning HBO documentary, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling.
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Wayne Federman produced an award-winning web series with Don Rickles entitled, Dinner With Don, as well as Judd Apatow's 2017 Netflix stand-up special, The Return.
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In 2022, Wayne Federman produced the two-part HBO documentary George Carlin's American Dream.
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In November 2011, Wayne Federman wrote an article documenting Ronald Reagan's pivotal role during the SAG strike of 1960 that established residual payments for film actors.
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In January 2013, Wayne Federman wrote an article on Pete Maravich's untimely death in 1987.
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In September 2015, Wayne Federman wrote a long-form article entitled "From Sullivan to CK: a History of Modern American Standup" for Splitsider magazine.
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One, on the enduring impact of comedian Richard Pryor's 1979 concert film - and the other on the many comedy rooms that Wayne Federman played over his thirty-plus years performing stand-up comedy.
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Wayne Federman teaches level-2 stand-up performance and a critical studies course on the history of stand-up comedy for the USC School of Dramatic Arts.