Gil Ozeri is an American comedian, actor, and writer, best known for his work writing for '' Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', '' Big Mouth'', and '' Happy Endings''.

Career

Ozeri started his comedy career with the

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in New York, and has continued to collaborate with many fellow UCB actors, including Ben Schwartz,

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, and

Adam Pally Adam Saul Pally (born March 18, 1982) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is best known for starring as Max Blum in the ABC comedy series '' Happy Endings'' and as Dr. Peter Prentice in '' The Mindy Project''. He also starr ...

. In addition to his television writing, he has gained attention for making short, surreal videos released via Snapchat. He has also garnered attention for stunts involving watching marathons of the entirety of the television shows ''

Two and a Half Men ''Two and a Half Men'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015. Originally starring Charlie Sheen in the lead role alongside Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones, the ...

'' and ''Entourage''. In April 2019, he was announced as a main cast member in an NBC pilot, ''Friends-in-Law''. Ozeri appeared on ''

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'' charity fundraiser, ''The George Lucas Talk Show All Day Star Wars Movie Watch Along.''

Personal life

Ozeri is

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

. In 2017, Ozeri tweeted that his mother's father was a

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

survivor and refugee, and that his father's parents were

Yemeni Jews Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the ...

who, in 1948, were airlifted and taken in by Israel.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

Living people American Jews American people of Yemeni-Jewish descent American television writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-comedian-stub