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American stand-up comedian (b.1974)
Charles Brendan 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 .
Career
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.
Writing credits
Year
Title
Notes
2001–2008
Saturday Night Live
127 episodes credited as a writer; 4 episodes credited as "written by"
2008–2012
The Office
Episodes written:
Season 5, Episode 5 – "
Crime Aid " (October 23, 2008)
Season 5, Episode 25 – "
Broke " (April 23, 2009)
Season 6, Episode 9 – "
Double Date (November 5, 2009)
Season 6, Episode 18 – "
The Delivery, Part Two " (March 4, 2010)
Season 7, Episode 3 – "
Andy's Play " (October 7, 2010)
Season 7, Episode 23 – "
The Inner Circle " (May 5, 2011)
Season 8, Episode 3 – "
Lotto " (October 6, 2011)
Season 8, Episode 19 – "
Get the Girl " (March 15, 2012)
2013–2014
The Mindy Project
Episodes written:
Season 2, Episode 7 – "Sk8er Man" (November 5, 2013)
Season 2, Episode 12 – "Danny Castellano Is My Personal Trainer" (January 7, 2014)
Season 2, Episode 19 – "Think Like A Peter" (April 15, 2014)
2018
Champions
Episodes written:
Season 1, Episode 1 – “
Pilot ” (March 8, 2018)
Season 1, Episode 2 – “
I Think I’m Gonna Tolerate It Here ” (March 15, 2018)
Season 1, Episode 4 – “
My Fair Uncle ” (April 5, 2018)
Season 1, Episode 10 – “
Deal or No Deal ” (May 25, 2018)
2019
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Episodes written:
Season 1, Episode 5 – “
Love, Chalet ” (August 7, 2019)
Season 1, Episode 8 – “
Game Night ” (August 28, 2019)
2021-present
The Sex Lives of College Girls
Episodes written:
Season 1, Episode 4 - "Kappa" (November 25, 2021)
Season 1, Episode 8 - "The Surprise Party" (December 2, 2021)
2023-present
Velma
Episodes written:
Season 1, Episode 1 – “Velma” (January 12, 2023)
Season 1, Episode 9 – "Family (Wo)man" (February 9, 2023)
Season 1, Episode 10 – "The Brains of the Operation" (February 9, 2023)
Season 2, Episode 1 – "The Mystery of Teen Romance" (April 25, 2024)
Season 2, Episode 10 – "Til Death" (April 25, 2024)
Personal life
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]
Awards and nominations
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]
References
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"WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Sage Davis, Charles Grandy" . New York Times . July 11, 2004.
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"Charlie Grandy: Stand Up Videos and Funny Clips" . Jokes.com . Archived from
the original on September 22, 2010. Retrieved January 25, 2011 .
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"Charlie Grandy from The Office" . Film.com . Retrieved January 25, 2011 .
^ McPhee, Ryan (March 7, 2018).
"How a Gay, Half-Indian, Musical-Loving Teen Became the Center of NBC's Champions" . PlayBill .
^ Maglio, Tony (July 1, 2019).
"Here's the Trailer for Mindy Kaling's 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' Adaptation on Hulu (Video)" . The Wrap .
^ Longden, Tom (July 6, 2008). "Talk-show career satisfies Grandy".
The Des Moines Register .
^
"Awards for Charlie Grandy" . IMDb . Retrieved January 25, 2011 .
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"2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced" . Writers Guild of America, West . December 14, 2009. Archived from
the original on October 19, 2013. Retrieved January 25, 2011 .
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