Daniel "Dan" Levy (born March 19, 1981), is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer, from Stamford, Connecticut. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
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Early life
Levy was born on March 19, 1981 to Linda and Elliott L. Levy. In 1993, Levy was a member of the "Half Pint Players", a teen-age improvisation group in Stamford, Connecticut. He began performing as a comedian while attending Emerson College in Boston.
Since then, Levy has performed at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Fest, SF Sketchfest, and toured with Aziz Ansari, John Mulaney, and Whitney Cummings. He has made TV appearances on Premium Blend, Comedy Central Presents, The Late Late Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Chelsea Lately, The Office, Enlightened, Atypical, and @Midnight. His Comedy Central album Congrats on Your Success debuted #1 on iTunes when it was released in 2012. His hour comedy special "Dan Levy: LION" first premiered on Seeso.
As a host, Levy has worked on four MTV shows including Your Face Or Mine and MTV Spring Break, and his own talk show for College Humor: IHaveToGoInAMinuteShow, a daily comedy show directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson. Levy produced, wrote, and starred in My Long Distance Relationship, a 10-part web series for Crackle.
In April 2013, Levy collaborated with DJ Jensen Karp to create Baby Talk, a live comedy show where 3 to 4 comedians ask for parenting advice from children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. The show was held at NerdMelt Showroom in Los Angeles, which later became a JASH series. Some of the guests included Blake Griffin, Paul Scheer, Natasha Leggero, Bo Burnham, Neal Brennan, and Jermaine Fowler.
In Fall 2016, Levy released his first hour comedy special Dan Levy: LION on the NBC streaming platform Seeso and Amazon.
As a producer, Levy executive produced Pretty Wild for E!, and the VH1 sketch series Stevie TV. Levy has written for the Roast of Justin Bieber, and the sitcoms Whitney, Mulaney, The Awesomes, and for the past three seasons, The Goldbergs. He and long time collaborator Steve Basilone, are currently writing the sequel to the movie Twins, Triplets, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Devito, and Eddie Murphy.
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Personal life
Levy is married to writer and actress Rachel Specter. Levy is close friends with stand-up comedian John Mulaney, and officiated at his wedding in 2014.
Currently Levy lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children where he writes for the ABC show The Goldbergs.
Filmography
Films
Television
Discography
- Congrats On Your Success (2011)
- Running out of Minutes (2013)
- Dan Levy: LION (2016)
References
External links
- Official website
- Dan Levy on IMDb
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