David Steinberg Biography (1942-)

Born August 9, 1942, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; son of Jacob (some sources cite Yasha; a rabbi) and Ruth Steinberg; married; wife's name, Judy (a producer); children: Sasha, Rebecca. Addresses: Office: MBST Entertainment, 345 North Maple Dr., Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.; Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Comedian, actor, director, producer, writer
Birth Details: August 9, 1942; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Appearances
Series
Host, The Music Scene, ABC, 1969-1970
Host, The David Steinberg Show, CBS, 1972
Host, The Noonday Show, NBC, beginning 1975
Gabe Moss, Big Sound, Global Television, 2000-2001
Specials
The Return of the Smothers Brothers, NBC, 1970
The George Segal Show, NBC, 1974
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell, PBS, 1982
Voice of the casting director, Billy Crystal: A Comic's Line, HBO,1984
Host, Just for Laughs II, Showtime, 1987
Host, "Just for Laughs IV," Showtime Comedy Spotlight, Showtime, 1987
"The World of Jewish Humor," Great Performances, PBS, 1990
Narrator, Here He Is ... the One, the Only ... Groucho (also knownas The One, the Only ... Groucho), HBO, 1991
Host, David Steinberg's Biased and Insensitive Review of the Year,Arts and Entertainment, 1992
Host, Comedy: Coast to Coast, 1994
But ... Seriously, Showtime, 1994
Host and reporter, National Desk, PBS, 1999
Host, Showbiz Goes to War, PBS, 2000
(Uncredited) Himself, Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, 2002
(Uncredited) TV's Most Censored Moments, 2002
Also appeared in Second City: 25 Years in Revue.
Episodic
Guest, The Dean Martin Show, NBC, 1967
Guest, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, CBS, 1969
Guest, The Tonight Show, NBC, multiple appearances, 1969-1992
Guest, The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS, 1970
Himself, "The Odd Couple Meet Their Host," The Odd Couple, ABC, 1971
Guest, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (also known as Laugh-In), NBC, 1971
Guest host, The Midnight Special, NBC, 1974, 1979, 1980
Guest host, Fridays, NBC, 1981
Guest, Late Night with David Letterman, NBC, multiple appearances,between 1986 and 1991
Sean O'Grady, "The Tale of Jake and the Leprechaun," Are You Afraid ofthe Dark?, Nickelodeon, 1992
Guest, The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS, 1993
Neighbor, "An Angel for Murray," Mad about You (also known as Loved by You), NBC, 1995
Neighbor, "The Couple," Mad about You (also known as Loved by You), NBC, 1995
Rabbi Lou Menken, "Citizen Buchman," Mad about You (also known asLoved by You), NBC, 1997
Director, "There's a Puma in the Kitchen," Mad about You (also known as Loved by You), NBC, 1998
Himself, "Sammy Davis, Jr.," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 1999
Himself, Speaking Freely, PBS, c. 2002
Himself, Richard Pryor: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 2003
Also appeared in The Sonny and Cher Show, CBS.
Pilots
Host, The Noonday Show, NBC, 1975
Host, Out of Our Minds, syndicated, 1984
Host, Just for Laughs, CBC, 1987
Charles Dryden, Dad's a Dog, ABC, 1990
Television Executive Producer
Series
Second City TV (also known as SCTV), Global Television, CBC, and syndicated, 1976-1978
Good Grief, Fox, 1990-1991
The Paula Poundstone Show (also known as Off the Road with Paula Poundstone), HBO, beginning 1992
Designing Women, CBS, 1992-1993
It Had to Be You (also known as Marry Me Anyway), CBS, 1993
(And creator) Big Sound, Global Television, 2000-2001
Television Director
Series
Newhart, CBS, multiple episodes, between 1986 and 1990
Designing Women, CBS, multiple episodes, 1987, 1991-1993
Family Man, ABC, multiple episodes, 1988
Evening Shade, CBS, multiple episodes, 1990-1991
Mad about You (also known as Loved by You), NBC, multiple episodes, 1993-1998
The Parent 'Hood, The WB, multiple episodes, 1995-1996
Big Sound, Global Television, multiple episodes, 2000-2001
Television Work
Movies
Director, Switching Goals, ABC, 1999
Executive producer, Judgement Day: The Ellie Nesler Story, USA Network, 1999
Television Executive Producer
Specials
"Billy Crystal--Don't Get Me Started," On Location, HBO, 1986
"Michael Davis--The Life of the Party," Cinemax Comedy Experiment,Cinemax, 1986
"Robin Williams--An Evening at the Met," On Location, HBO, 1986
The Young Comedians All-Star Reunion, HBO, 1986
"The 11th Annual Young Comedians Show," On Location, HBO, 1987
"Women of the Night," On Location, HBO, 1987
"An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr., and Jerry Lewis," HBO Comedy Hour, HBO, 1988
"The 12th Annual Young Comedians Show," On Location, HBO, 1988
"Women of the Night II," On Location, HBO, 1988

"Billy Crystal: Midnight Train to Moscow," On Location, HBO, 1989
"I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood," HBO Comedy Hour, HBO, 1989
"Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops, and Stuff" (also known as "Cats, Cops, andStuff"), HBO Comedy Hour, HBO, 1990
"The 14th Annual Young Comedians Show," HBO Comedy Hour, HBO, 1991
"Kevin Pollak: Stop with the Kicking," HBO Comedy Hour, HBO, 1991
"Women of the Night III," HBO Comedy Hour, HBO, 1991
David Steinberg's Biased and Insensitive Review of the Year, Artsand Entertainment, 1992
"Women of the Night IV Hosted by Tracey Ullman," HBO Comedy Hour,HBO, 1995
The 1997 ESPY Awards, ABC, 1997
Paul Rodriguez: Idiots and Armadillos, HBO, 1998
Women of the Night, 2000
Robin Williams: Live on Broadway, HBO, 2002
Television Director
Specials
I Love Lucy: The Very First Show, CBS, 1990
Rick Reynolds: Only the Truth Is Funny (also known as Only theTruth Is Funny), Showtime, 1993
Penn & Teller's Home Invasion Magic, ABC, 1997
Also directed The Richard Belzer Special.
Television Producer
Awards Presentations
The ESPY Awards, ESPN, 1995
Television Director
Episodic
"The Uncle Devil Show," The Twilight Zone, CBS, 1985
"Big Daddy's Little Lady," The Golden Girls, NBC, 1986
"Casey at the Bat," Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends (alsoknown as Tall Tales and Legends), Showtime, 1986
It's Garry Shandling's Show, Showtime and Fox, 1986
"Overture," Duet, Fox, 1987
"Prelude," Duet, Fox, 1987
The Popcorn Kid, CBS, 1987
"Adagio" (also known as "Not a Date"), Duet, Fox, 1988
"Bud, Junior, Junior," Eisenhower & Lutz, CBS, 1988
"Pursued," The Fanelli Boys, NBC, 1990
"The Sitting," Get a Life, Fox, 1990
"The Tapes," Seinfeld, NBC, 1991
"The Truth," Seinfeld, NBC, 1991
"All about Dave," It Had to Be You (also known as Marry Me Anyway), CBS, 1993
"Let's Spend Termite Together," It Had to Be You (also known as Marry Me Anyway), CBS, 1993
"Long Date's Journey into Night," It Had to Be You (also known asMarry Me Anyway), CBS, 1993
"Mount St. Helen's," Daddy Dearest (also known as My Son the Bastard), Fox, 1993
"Private Lives," Daddy Dearest (also known as My Son the Bastard), Fox, 1993
"Logan's Run," Ink, CBS, 1996
"The One with Phoebe's Uterus," Friends, NBC, 1998
"Put on a Happy Face," Living in Captivity, Fox, 1998
"Ted and Mary," Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO, 2000
"The Shrimp Incident," Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO, 2001
"Mary, Joseph, and Larry," Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO, 2002
Good Girls Don't, Oxygen, 2004
Director of episodes of Annie McGuire, CBS; The Ellen Burstyn Show, ABC; One Big Family, syndicated; and The Rick Reynolds Show. Director of Spivey's Kid Brother, an early version of Even Stevens, The Disney Channel.
Television Executive Producer
Pilots
Death & Taxes, NBC, 1993
The Paul Rodriguez Show, The WB, 1998
Television Director
Pilots
Man about Town, ABC, 1986
One Big Family (also known as Roger Runs Away), syndicated,1986
"Baby on Board," CBS Summer Playhouse, CBS, 1988
Coconut Downs, ABC, 1991
Death & Taxes, NBC, 1993
It Had to Be You (also known as Marry Me Anyway), CBS, 1993
"A Weak First Week," Even Stevens, The Disney Channel, 2001
What's Up, Peter Fuddy?, Fox, 2001
Film Appearances
The rat, Fearless Frank (also known as Frank's Greatest Adventure), American International Pictures, 1967
Photographer, The Lost Man, Universal, 1969
Marty Lieberman, The End, United Artists, 1978
Harris Soane, Something Short of Paradise (also known as Perfect Love), American International Pictures, 1979
Talk show host, Nothing Personal, American International Pictures,1980
The Best of the Big Laff Off, 1983
Himself, The Tommy Chong Roast (also known as Playboy Comedy Roast: Tommy Chong), 1986
Meegosh, Willow, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1988
Himself, My Giant, Columbia, 1998
Outpatient, The Wrong Guy, Lions Gate Films, 1998
Film Director
Paternity, Paramount, 1981
Going Berserk, Universal, 1983
The Wrong Guy, Lions Gate Films, 1998
Film Producer
Executive producer, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (also known as Brain Candy, The Drug, and Kids in the Hall: La pilule du bonheur), Paramount, 1996
Extreme Adventures of Super Dave, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2000
Stage Appearances
Member of ensemble, The Mad Show, New Theatre, New York City, 1966
Member of ensemble, The Return of the Second City in "20,000 Frozen Grenadiers," Square East Theatre, New York City, 1966
Kenny Newquist, Little Murders, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City,1967
Seymour Levin, Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights, John Golden Theatre, New York City, 1968
Major Tours
From the Second City, U.S. cities, 1965
RECORDINGS
Albums
David Steinberg Disguised as a Normal Person, Elektra, 1970
Booga! Booga!, Columbia, 1974
Goodbye to the 70s, Columbia, 1975
WRITINGS
Teleplays
Series
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, CBS, c. 1969
The Parent 'Hood, The WB, between 1995 and 1999
Specials
The Return of the Smothers Brothers, NBC, 1970
"Michael Davis--The Life of the Party," Cinemax Comedy Experiment,Cinemax, 1986
(With others) Time Warner Presents the Earth Day Special (also known as The Earth Day Special), ABC, 1990
David Steinberg's Biased and Insensitive Review of the Year, Artsand Entertainment, 1992
Awards Presentations
(With others) The 63rd Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1991
(With others) The 64th Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1992
Special material for Billy Crystal, The 65th Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1993
Special material, The 69th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1997
Special material for Billy Crystal, The 70th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 1998
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2000
The 76th Annual Academy Awards, ABC, 2004
Episodic
The Music Scene, ABC, episodes from 1969-1970
The Noonday Show, NBC, episodes beginning 1975
(With others) "Gone with a Whim: Parts 1 & 2," Designing Women, CBS, 1992
Pilots
The Noonday Show, NBC, 1975
Screenplays
(With Dana Olsen) Going Berserk, Universal, 1983
(Story with others) All Dogs Go to Heaven (animated), United Artists, 1989

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Los Angeles Times, August 8, 1994

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