Jump to content

Adam Resnick: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
m m c/e
No edit summary
 
(25 intermediate revisions by 19 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{short description|American director, producer and writer}}
{{For|the federal whistleblower|Adam B. Resnick}}
{{For|the federal whistleblower|Adam B. Resnick}}
{{distinguish|Alan Resnick}}
{{distinguish|Alan Resnick}}
Line 4: Line 5:
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}
{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name = Adam Resnick
| name = Adam Resnick
| image =
| image =
| caption =
| caption =
| birthname =
| birthname =
| birth_date =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = United States
| birth_place = United States
| death_date =
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_place =
| occupation = Director, producer, writer
| occupation = Director, producer, writer
| known_for = writing for [[Late Night with David Letterman]]
}}
}}


'''Adam Resnick''' is an American comedy writer from [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]. He is best known for his work writing for ''[[Late Night with David Letterman]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/166451/Adam-Resnick |title= Adam Resnick |work= NYTimes.com Movies & TV |publisher= ''[[The New York Times]]'' ([[AllMovie|All Movie Guide]] and [[Baseline (database)|Baseline]]) |date= 2007-01-18 |accessdate= 2014-05-01}}</ref>
'''Adam Resnick''' is an American comedy writer from [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]. He is best known for his work writing for ''[[Late Night with David Letterman]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/166451/Adam-Resnick |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140314030630/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/166451/Adam-Resnick |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2014-03-14 |title= Adam Resnick |department= Movies & TV Dept. |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= 2014 |accessdate= 2014-05-01}}</ref>


Additionally, Resnick co-created and wrote for ''[[Get a Life (TV series)|Get A Life]]'' with [[Chris Elliott]]. Resnick also wrote and was co-executive producer of a season of ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'' for [[Home Box Office|HBO]]. Two years later, in 1994, Resnick would team up with Elliott again for the motion picture ''[[Cabin Boy]]''.
He co-created and wrote for ''[[Get a Life (American TV series)|Get A Life]]'' with [[Chris Elliott]]. Resnick also wrote and was co-executive producer of a season of ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'' for [[Home Box Office|HBO]]. He created and wrote ''[[The High Life (1996 TV series)|The High Life]]'' (1996), also for HBO. Also for television, he has written for ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', and is a writer and consulting producer on ''[[Divorce (TV series)|Divorce]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Will |date=2018-09-25 |title=Adam Resnick Breaks Down the Surreal W.C. Fields Comedy Million Dollar Legs |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/underrated-adam-resnick-on-w-c-fields-million-dollar-legs.html |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}</ref>


In 2000, Resnick wrote the film ''[[Lucky Numbers]]'' starring [[John Travolta]] and [[Lisa Kudrow]].
Resnick has also written for film. With its star, Chris Elliott, Resnick created the story for the 1994 motion picture ''[[Cabin Boy]]'', for which he wrote the screenplay. Resnick wrote the screenplays for ''[[Lucky Numbers]]'' (2000), starring [[John Travolta]] and [[Lisa Kudrow]], and ''[[Death to Smoochy]]'' (2002), directed by [[Danny DeVito]].


''Will Not Attend'', a pseudo-[[memoir]], was released in 2014.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/adam-resnick-no-rsvp-required-89700/|title=Adam Resnick: No RSVP Required|first1=Steve|last1=Heisler|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=May 26, 2014}}</ref> ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' called the book "a neurotic, unapologetic, hilarious collection."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-resnick/will-not-attend/|title=WILL NOT ATTEND &#124; Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}</ref>
In 2002, Resnick wrote the film ''[[Death to Smoochy]]'' which was directed by [[Danny DeVito]].

Resnick also created and wrote the 1996 [[HBO]] television series ''[[The High Life (1996 TV series)|The High Life]]''.

In 2014, his book, ''Will Not Attend'', was released.


==References==
==References==
Line 34: Line 32:
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/27/movies/film-review-it-sure-takes-more-than-a-dollar-and-a-dream.html NY Times Review 2000]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/27/movies/film-review-it-sure-takes-more-than-a-dollar-and-a-dream.html NY Times Review 2000]


{{EmmyAward ComedyVarietyMusicWriting 1975-2000}}
{{EmmyAward ComedyVarietyMusicWriting 1980s}}
{{Authority control}}
{{Authority control}}


Line 42: Line 40:
[[Category:Film producers from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Film producers from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:American male screenwriters]]
[[Category:American male screenwriters]]
[[Category:Emmy Award winners]]
[[Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners]]
[[Category:Writers from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Writers from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
[[Category:Male television writers]]
[[Category:American male television writers]]
[[Category:Film directors from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Film directors from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Screenwriters from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Screenwriters from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:American comedy writers]]
[[Category:Comedians from Pennsylvania]]




Latest revision as of 15:17, 20 September 2024

For the federal whistleblower, see Adam B. Resnick.
Not to be confused with Alan Resnick.

Adam Resnick
Born
United States
Occupation(s)Director, producer, writer
Known forwriting for Late Night with David Letterman

Adam Resnick is an American comedy writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work writing for Late Night with David Letterman.[1]

He co-created and wrote for Get A Life with Chris Elliott. Resnick also wrote and was co-executive producer of a season of The Larry Sanders Show for HBO. He created and wrote The High Life (1996), also for HBO. Also for television, he has written for Saturday Night Live, and is a writer and consulting producer on Divorce.[2]

Resnick has also written for film. With its star, Chris Elliott, Resnick created the story for the 1994 motion picture Cabin Boy, for which he wrote the screenplay. Resnick wrote the screenplays for Lucky Numbers (2000), starring John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow, and Death to Smoochy (2002), directed by Danny DeVito.

Will Not Attend, a pseudo-memoir, was released in 2014.[3] Kirkus Reviews called the book "a neurotic, unapologetic, hilarious collection."[4]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Adam Resnick". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
  2. ^ Harris, Will (September 25, 2018). "Adam Resnick Breaks Down the Surreal W.C. Fields Comedy Million Dollar Legs". Vulture. Retrieved December 8, 2022.
  3. ^ Heisler, Steve (May 26, 2014). "Adam Resnick: No RSVP Required". Rolling Stone.
  4. ^ "WILL NOT ATTEND | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
[edit]


Stub icon

This article about a television writer from the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Adam_Resnick&oldid=1246704023"