Stephan Dweck Esq. (born 1960) is an American humorist,

attorney Attorney may refer to: * Lawyer ** Attorney at law, in some jurisdictions * Attorney, one who has power of attorney * ''The Attorney'', a 2013 South Korean film See also * Attorney general, the principal legal officer of (or advisor to) a gove ...

, radio show host and the author or co-author of several books. He co-hosted the ''Sports Funk'' show on WFAN-AM radio in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...

with Monteria Ivey. Dweck and Ivey lived in the

Frederick Douglass Houses The Frederick Douglass Houses are a public housing project located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, in the Manhattan Valley neighborhood of Upper West Side, named for civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass. The actual buildings are lo ...

housing project Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authorities, government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the d ...

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

. Ivey, Dweck and James Percelay co-authored numerous books on

African-American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...

humor, from slavery to American ghettos, including the ''Snaps'' trilogy. Ivey and Dweck also wrote two books on

pick-up line A pick-up line or chat-up line is a conversation opener with the intent of engaging a person for romance or dating. As overt and sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest, pick-up lines advertise the wit of their speakers to their target ...

s called ''You're So Fine I'd Drink a Tub of Your Bathwater'' and ''Baby, All Those Curves. And Me With No Brakes''. Other books include ''Laugh Your Ass Off: The Big Book of African American Humor'' and ''The Field Guide to White People''. Dweck executive produced the ''Snaps'' series for HBO and the animated show ''The Big Head People'' for Spike TV. He has worked as a screenwriter for Eddie Murphy Productions and Miramax Films. He also was a regular guest on the IMUS in the morning program. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, where he received the Ernest E. Just award for academic excellence. He is a member of

Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. () is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved int ...

fraternity, and a member of the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut bar. As an attorney he has represented several rappers, singers and actors, including the cast of the film ''

Paris Is Burning Paris Is Burning may refer to: * ''Paris Is Burning'' (film), a 1990 documentary film * "Paris Is Burning" (''Gilmore Girls''), the eleventh episode of ''Gilmore Girls first season * "Paris Is Burning", a song from the 1983 album '' Breaking the Ch ...

'' in their lawsuit against the producers of the film. He is the co-owner and founder of the Digital Cannabis Magazine Bloomin "The Cannabis Life". He is the executive producer of the film HoodPranks and the executive producer of the movie Mr.Watergate. He is the executive producer of the film "The Plus One". For the past 25 years he has been part of the management team for the artist Ashanti. He is an entertainment lawyer in New York City.

References

Living people American humorists American radio personalities 1960 births {{US-writer-stub