Stephen Wright Biography

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Steven Wright (1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Burlington, Massachusetts. He is known for his slow, deadpan, monotone delivery of ironic, witty, deeply philosophical and sometimes confusing jokes and one-liners.

Wright released a comedy album in 1985 entitled I Have a Pony, which received critical acclaim and was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 1992, Wright had a recurring role on the television sitcom Mad About You. He later won an Academy Award for his short film, The Appointments of Dennis Jennings. He also supplied the voice of the radio DJ in the film Reservoir Dogs.

There are numerous lists of jokes attributed to Wright circulating on the Internet, sometimes of dubious provenance. Wright has stated that "someone showed me a site, and half of it that said I wrote it, I didn't write. Recently, I saw one, and I didn't write any of it. What's disturbing is that with a few of these jokes, I wish I had thought of them. A giant amount of them, I'm embarrassed that people think I thought of them, because some are really bad." [1] Interview with Steven Wright

After his 1990 comedy special Wicker Chairs and Gravity, Wright continued to do live stand-up performances, but was largely absent from television, only doing occasional guest spots on late night talk shows. In 2006, noticing that much of his audience in recent years was getting older, and wanting to reach out to a generation that may only know him from films like Half Baked, he produced his first stand-up special in 16 years, Steven Wright: When the Leaves Blow Away.

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. He was named #23 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.

Selected filmography

• Desperately Seeking Susan, (1985) Larry Stillman D.D.S.
  
• The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, (1988) (short film)
  
• Reservoir Dogs, (1992) (voice only) as "K-Billy DJ"
  
• So I Married an Axe Murderer, (1993) as "Pilot"
  
• Natural Born Killers, (1994) as "Dr. Emil Reingold"
  
• Canadian Bacon, (1995) as Canadian Mounted Police Officer
  
• Half Baked, (1998) as "The Guy on the Couch" (uncredited)
  
• One Soldier, (1999) (short film)
  
• The Muse, (1999)
  
• Loser, (2000) Man in Bar
  
• Coffee and Cigarettes, (2003) as "Steven"
  
• The Aristocrats, (2005) as himself
  

References

External links

• Official site
  
• MySpace profile: myspace.com/comedianstevenwright
  
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• Video of Steven Wright performing stand-up on his most recent comedy special "When the Leaves Blow Away"
  
• Jokes attributed to Steven Wright with actual authors identified
  
• The Onion A.V. Club interview
  

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