Matthew Richard "Matt" Silverstein (born April 1, 1979) is an American television writer and co-creator with

Dave Jeser David Mark Douglas Jeser (born September 25, 1977) is an American television writer and co-creator with Matt Silverstein of '' Drawn Together''. He has also written for other television shows including ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', '' The Man Show'' ...

of ''

Drawn Together ''Drawn Together'' is an American adult animation, adult animated sitcom created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein and premiered on Comedy Central on October 27, 2004. The series is a parody of ''The Surreal Life'' and follows the misadventures ...

''. He has also written for other television shows including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Greg the Bunny ''Greg the Bunny'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and ...

'', ''

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'', ''

The Goode Family ''The Goode Family'' (sometimes abbreviated to ''Goode Family'') is a short-lived American adult animated television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from May 27 to August 7, 2009. The series was created by Mike Judge, the creator of MTV's '' ...

'' and ''

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'', and also created the

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animated comedy ''

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'' in 2009. He cowrote the script to the film ''

Accidental Love ''Accidental Love'' is a 2015 American romantic comedy film directed by David O. Russell (under a pseudonym) and written by Russell, Kristin Gore, Dave Jeser, and Matt Silverstein, based on Gore's 2004 novel ''Sammy's Hill''. The film stars Jess ...

''.

Biography

Silverstein was raised in a

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 ...

family in

Oradell, New Jersey Oradell is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the borough's population was 8,244,, an increase of 266 from the 2010 United States census, 2 ...

.Jewish Standard: "‘Drawn Together’ creators, from area, decry anti-Israel accusations" by Josh Lipowsky
June 4, 2010 Silverstein graduated from the

Dwight-Englewood School The Dwight-Englewood School (D-E) is an independent coeducational college-preparatory day school, located in Englewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The school teaches students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade in three ...

Englewood, New Jersey Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which at the 2020 United States census had a population of 29,308. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from por ...

which he attended with Jeser. In 2015, Silverstein, along with Dave Jeser, developed author Joshua Miller's ''

Golan the Insatiable ''Golan the Insatiable'' is an American animated television series that originally aired on Fox on November 23, 2013 along with '' Lucas Bros. Moving Co.''; it officially premiered on January 11, 2014. It was created by Josh Miller and developed ...

'' for television appearing on

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in May 2015. Producers were Jeser, Silverstein, Hend Baghdady and

Nick Weidenfeld Nicholas Rabb Weidenfeld (born September 26, 1979) is an American television producer and executive who led program development for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim and Fox's Animation Domination High-Def programming blocks. He won producing Emmy Awa ...

.Variety: "‘Golan the Insatiable’ Readies for Fox’s Primetime" by Mannie Holmes
May 29, 2015

Filmography

Film

References

External links

* 1979 births Living people American television writers Dwight-Englewood School alumni American male television writers Jewish American writers People from Oradell, New Jersey Screenwriters from New Jersey 21st-century American Jews {{US-tv-bio-stub