Adam Resnick

{{short description|American director, producer and writer}}

{{For|the federal whistleblower|Adam B. Resnick}}

{{distinguish|Alan Resnick}}

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

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.{{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}}

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.{{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}} Kirkus Reviews called the book "a neurotic, unapologetic, hilarious collection."{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-resnick/will-not-attend/|title=WILL NOT ATTEND | Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}