Jason Ross (writer)
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
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| education = University of California, Santa Barbara
| occupation = Writer
| years_active = 2003–
| style = Comedic
| television = The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
The President Show
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Jason Ross is an American writer and seven-time Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series winner.
Early life and education
Ross grew up in Chico, California, in the 1970s and 80s and graduated from Chico Senior High School in 1988.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Ken |date=September 20, 2012 |title=The Constitution walks into a bar |url=https://www.newsreview.com/chico/content/the-constitution-walks-into-a-bar/7738394/ |newspaper=Chico News & Review |accessdate=May 10, 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://rce.csuchico.edu/sites/default/files/online/jason_ross_constitution_day.pdf |title=Constitution Day Address |publisher=California State University, Chico |access-date=October 15, 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://www.theawl.com/2013/03/daily-show-writer-jason-ross |title="Daily Show" Writer Jason Ross On Writing For Free and Breaking Into Comedy |last=Layne |first=Ken |work=The Awl |date=March 21, 2013 |publisher=The Awl |access-date=October 15, 2014}} He attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was a 1993 Collegiate Gold Circle Awards winner for his work at Daily Nexus.{{cite web |url=http://cspa.columbia.edu/recepient-lists/1993-awards-student-work-gold-circle-awards-collegiate-recipients |title=1993 - Awards For Student Work Gold Circle Awards - Collegiate Recipients |publisher=Columbia Scholastic Press Association |access-date=October 15, 2014}} He served as the news editor at Daily Nexus before being promoted to editor-in-chief and graduated from UCSB in 1993.{{cite web |url=http://www.ucsbalum.com/Coastlines/2012/Fall/milestones_f2012.html |title=Milestones |date=Fall 2012 |publisher=UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association |access-date=October 15, 2014}}
Career
= Journalism =
Ross followed a journalism career and was a writer for his hometown Chico News & Review after college.{{Cite magazine |date=Spring 2013 |title=Laughing with Purpose |url=https://www.csuchico.edu/bss/_assets/documents/vanguard_vol07.pdf |magazine=Vanguard |pages=8–9 |accessdate=May 10, 2022}}
= The Daily Show =
Ross joined The Daily Show in 2002, where he ended up spending 11 years, finally departing in June 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-27-2013/moment-of-zen---jason-ross |title=Moment of Zen - Jason Ross |date=June 27, 2013 |publisher=The Daily Show |access-date=October 15, 2014}} As a staff writer, he was awarded seven Emmy Awards.
He also helped to write the show's two best-selling books, America and Earth.{{cite web |url=http://www.csuchico.edu/news/archived-news/2012-fall/8-27-12-daily-show-writer-jason-ross-to-speak-on-constitution-day.shtml |title='Daily Show' Writer Jason Ross to Speak on Constitution Day |date=August 27, 2012 |publisher=California State University, Chico |access-date=October 15, 2014}}
= Late Night with Jimmy Fallon =
Personal life
Ross currently lives in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite web |url=http://allthingscomedy.com/contents/5902/27-episode-41%3A-jason-ross-podcast |title=Episode 41: Jason Ross |last=Havlan |first=J.R. |website=AllThingsComedy.com |access-date=October 15, 2014}} He is married to Nicole Revere and has two children.
References
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External links
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Category:Television writers from California
Category:American male television writers
Category:People from Chico, California
Category:University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
Category:Screenwriters from New York City
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American screenwriters