Charlie Grandy
{{Short description|American stand-up comedian (b. 1974)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Charlie Grandy
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|03|05}}
| birth_name = Charles Brendan Grandy
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| occupation = Stand-up comedian, television writer, producer
| yearsactive = 1999–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Sage Davis|2004}}
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Charles Grandy (born March 5, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian, television writer and producer. He began his career on the television series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live, The Office, Night at the Theatre, and Guys With Kids. Grandy has had a string of collaborations with actress and producer Mindy Kaling through The Mindy Project, Champions, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and The Sex Lives of College Girls. He is the son of former Love Boat star turned politician Fred Grandy.
Career
After working as a stand-up comedian,{{Cite web|url=http://comedians.jokes.com/charlie-grandy|title=Charlie Grandy: Stand Up Videos and Funny Clips|work=Jokes.com|accessdate=January 25, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100922083658/http://comedians.jokes.com/charlie-grandy|archivedate=September 22, 2010}} Grandy turned to television writing and became a writer on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in 2001. After his Daily Show stint, Grandy became a writer and producer on Saturday Night Live, where he worked until 2008. He worked on the Weekend Update sketch. In the same year, he joined the writing staff of the fifth season of the American version of The Office. At the beginning of the sixth season he became a co-producer and by the time the show entered its seventh season, he had become a supervising producer of the series.{{Cite web|url=http://www.film.com/celebrities/charlie-grandy/19169243|title=Charlie Grandy from The Office|work=Film.com|accessdate=January 25, 2011}} After the cancellation of his show, Guys With Kids, he joined his former Office cohort, Mindy Kaling, on the second season of her show, The Mindy Project, as a writer and co-executive producer. In 2018, Grandy and Kaling created the NBC show Champions.{{cite web |last1=McPhee |first1=Ryan |title=How a Gay, Half-Indian, Musical-Loving Teen Became the Center of NBC’s Champions |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/how-a-gay-half-indian-musical-loving-teen-became-the-center-of-nbcs-champions |website=PlayBill |date=March 7, 2018}} He served as an executive producer on Kaling's 2019 miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral.{{cite web |last1=Maglio |first1=Tony |title=Here’s the Trailer for Mindy Kaling’s ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ Adaptation on Hulu (Video) |url=https://www.thewrap.com/four-weddings-and-a-funeral-trailer-mindy-kaling-hulu/ |website=The Wrap |date=July 1, 2019}}
He is a writer for The Sex Lives of College Girls, another Kaling production and is credited with writing two episodes.
Writing credits
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| 2001–2008
| 127 episodes credited as a writer; 4 episodes credited as "written by" |
| 2008–2012
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| 2013–2014
| {{sortname|The|Mindy Project}} | Episodes written:
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| 2018
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| 2019
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| 2021–present
|The Sex Lives of College Girls | Episodes written:
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| 2023–2024
| Velma | Episodes written:
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Personal life
Grandy married Sage Davis in July 2004.{{cite web |title=WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Sage Davis, Charles Grandy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/style/weddings-celebrations-sage-davis-charles-grandy.html |website=New York Times |date=July 11, 2004}} He is the son of actor and politician Fred Grandy and his first wife Jan (née Gough); his parents divorced in 1983. Grandy graduated from Harvard University.{{cite news| title=Talk-show career satisfies Grandy| work=The Des Moines Register| first=Tom| last=Longden| date=July 6, 2008}}
Awards and nominations
Grandy has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for The Daily Show and the other for Saturday Night Live.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0334946/awards|title=Awards for Charlie Grandy|work=IMDb|accessdate=January 25, 2011}} In 2009 he received two Writers Guild of America award nominations, one for the fifth season of The Office and another for writing the episode "Broke".{{Cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3888 |title=2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced |work=Writers Guild of America, West |date=December 14, 2009 |accessdate=January 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019053744/http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3888 |archivedate=October 19, 2013 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|334946}}
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Category:American male television writers
Category:American television writers
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners
Category:American television producers
Category:Harvard College alumni
Category:Screenwriters from New York (state)
Category:Writers from New York City
Category:21st-century American screenwriters
Category:21st-century American male writers