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Charles Sick Grandy (born March 5, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian, television writer and producer. He began his career on the television series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live, The Office, and Guys With Kids. Grandy has had a string of collaborations with actress and producer Mindy Kaling through The Mindy Project, Champions, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and The Sex Lives of College Girls. He is the son of former Love Boat star turned politician Fred Grandy.
Charlie Grandy | |
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| Born | Charles Brendan Grandy[1] March 5, 1974 New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Stand-up comedian, television writer, producer |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse |
Sage Davis (m. 2004) |
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After working as a stand-up comedian,[2] Grandy turned to television writing and became a writer on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in 2001. After his Daily Show stint, Grandy became a writer and producer on Saturday Night Live, where he worked until 2008. He worked on the Weekend Update sketch.[1] In the same year, he joined the writing staff of the fifth season of the American version of The Office. At the beginning of the sixth season he became a co-producer and by the time the show entered its seventh season, he had become a supervising producer of the series.[3] After the cancellation of his show, Guys With Kids, he joined his former Office cohort, Mindy Kaling, on the second season of her show, The Mindy Project, as a writer and co-executive producer. In 2018, Grandy and Kaling created the NBC show Champions.[4] He served as an executive producer on Kaling's 2019 miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral.[5]
He is a writer for The Sex Lives of College Girls, another Kaling production and is credited with writing two episodes.
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 | This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. (August 2020) |
| Year | Title | Notes |
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| 2001–2008 | Saturday Night Live | 127 episodes credited as a writer; 4 episodes credited as "written by" |
| 2008–2012 | The Office | Episodes written:
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| 2013–2014 | The Mindy Project | Episodes written:
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| 2018 | Champions | Episodes written:
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| 2019 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | Episodes written:
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| 2021-present | The Sex Lives of College Girls | Episodes written:
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| 2023-2024 | Velma | Episodes written:
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Grandy married Sage Davis in July 2004.[1] He is the son of actor and politician Fred Grandy and his first wife Jan (née Gough); his parents divorced in 1983. Grandy graduated from Harvard University.[1][6]
Grandy has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for The Daily Show the other for Saturday Night Live.[7] In 2009 he received two Writers Guild of America award nominations, one for the fifth season of The Office and another for writing the episode Broke.[8]
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