Tim Carvell
{{short description|American writer and television producer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Tim Carvell
| image = 11.13.13TimCarvellByLuigiNovi1.jpg
| caption = Carvell at a November 18, 2013, signing for
Inside Mad in Manhattan
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1974}}
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| birth_place = Bloomfield Hills, Michigan U.S.
| occupation = Writer, satirist, producer
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| genre = Comedy, satire
| notableworks = {{Unbulleted list|{{nowrap|The Daily Show with Jon Stewart}}|{{nowrap|Last Week Tonight with John Oliver}}|Planet Tad}}
| awards = 3 consecutive Emmy Awards (2004–06){{cite journal |last=Kozanecka |first=Katarzyna |number=March/April 2007 |url=http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/mar_apr07/updates3.php |title=Tim Carvell '95 Keeps the Jokes Coming |journal=Columbia College Today |publisher=Columbia College, Columbia University}}
| website =
| spouse = Thomas Keeton
| children =
| alma_mater = Columbia University (1995)
}}
Tim Carvell is an American writer and television producer known for his work on the TV satirical news series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as well as for his print work in publications including Mad,{{Cite news|url=https://madtrash.com/contributor/000258/|title=Tim Carvell (MAD Contributor - USA) {{!}} MADtrash.com|work=MADtrash.com|access-date=March 10, 2018|language=en-US}} Slate,{{Cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/authors.tim_carvell.html|title=Tim Carvell|website=Slate Magazine|access-date=March 10, 2018}} and The New York Times.
Career
For the first nine years after he graduated from college, Carvell wrote for a number of New York-based publications, including Fortune, Sports Illustrated for Women and Entertainment Weekly.{{Cite news|url=https://ew.com/author/tim-carvell/|title=Tim Carvell|work=EW.com|access-date=March 10, 2018|language=en}} He also contributed humor pieces to McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and the op-ed page of The New York Times.{{cite news |last=Carvell |first=Tim |date=January 11, 2006 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/opinion/11carvell.html |title=A Million Little Corrections |newspaper=The New York Times}}
Carvell stumbled into a comedy career "by accident". He heard about an opening on the TV comedy series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from Steve Bodow, one of the writers on that show. He submitted a writing sample that consisted of the headlines that Jon Stewart reads at the desk and dialogue between Stewart and correspondents. Carvell was then interviewed by the show's head writer and the executive producer. He joined the show in March 2004, just as the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign was becoming a common news topic. Describing the subsequent meeting with Stewart as "surreal", Carvell says, "it felt uncannily like I was suddenly a guest on the show, only without a book or movie to promote." In 2011, Carvell became the series' head writer.{{cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=January 4, 2011 |url=https://deadline.com/2011/01/daily-show-veteran-staffers-get-promoted-while-exec-producer-josh-lieb-departs-93796/ |title='Daily Show' Veteran Staffers Get Promoted While Exec Producer Josh Lieb Departs |work=Deadline Hollywood}} As a staff writer for the show, he won six Emmy Awards between 2004 and 2012.
Since 2005, he has written the "Planet Tad" column for Mad magazine.{{cite web |url=https://madcoversite.com/ugoi-tim_carvell.html |title=Mad Magazine Contributors |work=Doug Gilford's Mad Cover Site |accessdate=October 30, 2013}} In 2012, he wrote a book based on the column, also called Planet Tad.{{cite news |last=Kois |first=Dan |date=May 11, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/books/review/planet-tad-by-tim-carvell.html |title=Boy Blogs World |newspaper=The New York Times}} In 2014, Carvell followed John Oliver to his new HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he serves as showrunner for the series.{{cite journal |url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/news/daily-shows-tim-carvell-set-as-showrunner-of-john-oliver-hbo-series-exclusive-1200953533/ |title='Daily Show's' Tim Carvell Set as Showrunner of John Oliver HBO Series |first=Cynthia |last=Littleton |journal=Variety |date=December 13, 2013 |accessdate=September 25, 2015}}
Personal life
Tim Carvell is a native of Bloomfield Hills, a suburb of Detroit. He entered Columbia University in 1991, majoring in history. While there, he wrote news and features for Spectator which he described as "as good a journalism education as you could get. It allowed you to learn by making mistakes, without suffering real consequences." He graduated in 1995.
Carvell married his partner, Thomas Keeton, on June 28, 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/29/fashion/weddings/tim-carvell-thomas-keeton.html|title=Tim Carvell, Thomas Keeton|date=June 29, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 10, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
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Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners
Category:American male television writers
Category:American television writers
Category:American LGBTQ writers
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