Streeter John Seidell (born December 2, 1982) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and TV host. Seidell was part of the cast of ''
CollegeHumor''
's online sketches. His video series ''Prank Wars'' garnered tens of millions of views and a large amount of mainstream television attention all over the world, which eventually led to a TV-series called ''
Pranked
'' Pranked'' is an American comedy television series on MTV. The series debuted on August 27, 2009 and is hosted by CollegeHumor
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'' on MTV with fellow ''
CollegeHumor'' editor,
Amir Blumenfeld
Amir Shmuel Blumenfeld (; he, אמיר שמואל בלומנפלד; born January 18, 1983) is an Israeli-American comedian, actor, writer, Television presenter, television host, and member of the American comedy duo, Jake and Amir. Born in Isra ...
.
Starting in 2013, Seidell began writing for the
ABC
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** Disney–ABC Television ...
sitcom ''
Trophy Wife''. In 2014, Seidell joined the writing staff of the longstanding
NBC variety show
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''
Saturday Night Live
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'', where he acts as a head writer.
Education and background
Seidell graduated from
Fordham University
Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...
in 2005 with a B.A. in communications. Seidell started dating Vanessa Bone, while they were in high school and later married on September 16, 2011.
He has a sister, Heidi.
CollegeHumor.com
Seidell was hired to work for
CollegeHumor.com in 2004 as one of the original line-up of staff for the site. He was in charge of editing the site's front page. He also wrote for the ''Hardly Working'' series. Seidell's characters are now under the name ''Streeter Theeter''.
''The CollegeHumor Show''
The ''Hardly Working'' series was adapted into a TV sitcom format by
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
. It portrays the usual ''Hardly Working'' style of comedy, in which the staff acts out fictionalized versions of themselves in their usual office in New York. The show premiered on February 9, 2009. The show was not picked up for a second season.
Saturday Night Live
Seidell was hired as a writer by
Saturday Night Live
''Saturday Night Live'' (often abbreviated to ''SNL'') is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and Peacock. Michaels currently serves a ...
in 2014 and promoted to supervising writer in 2017, and then head writer in early
2022
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.
His writing partner on SNL is
Mikey Day
Michael William Day (born March 20, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host of the Netflix show ''Is It Cake?'' He joined ''Saturday Night Live'' as a writer in its 39th season, became a featured player in it ...
. Sketches of note include the "Close Encounter" series with
Kate McKinnon,
the "Poolboy" series with
Pete Davidson and "
Haunted Elevator (ft. David S. Pumpkins)" with
Tom Hanks
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.
Disney
Seidell and Day have two projects in development for
Disney
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with one already released. A sixth film in the
Home Alone franchise titled ''
Home Sweet Home Alone
''Home Sweet Home Alone'' is a 2021 American Christmas comedy film directed by Dan Mazer, written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, and starring Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Aisling Bea, Kenan Thompson, Pete Holmes, Ally Maki, and ...
'' was released exclusively on
Disney+
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on November 12, 2021.
A live-action ''
Inspector Gadget'' film is in pre-production, as well as a ''
SpaceCamp
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'' remake produced by
Walt Disney Pictures
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is also planned.
Other appearances and projects
In ''
The Old Man and the Seymour
''The Old Man and the Seymour'' is a 2009 American comedy short film starring Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld. It was written and directed by Giancarlo Fiorentini and Jonathan Grimm.
Seymour, portrayed by Seidell, is taken in by his uncle, ...
'', Seidell plays Seymour Plunkett, an orphan who gets adopted by his hormonal deficient uncle (Amir Blumenfeld) after his dad dies. The film won several awards in various film fests. Seidell is featured on the
History Channel show ''I Love the 1880s'', where he, along with many other comedians, provides humorous commentary to historical facts and trivia.
Seidell wrote ''White Whine: A Study of First World Problems''. Published on October 1, 2013, the book consists of chapters detailing various luxuries, and why the people who complain about them in a certain way are considered White Whiners, each ending with a few social networking posts by said Whiners, gleaned in all likelihood from the book's predecessor, ''WhiteWhine.com''.
Seidell launched his podcast, ''
The Talk of Shame Show
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'' on May 15, 2014. The podcast has a guest every week to discuss shameful stories of their past, and also includes a fan submitted story, read by a British person. The show has had several other
CollegeHumor writers on it, such as
Jake Hurwitz
Jacob Penn Cooper Hurwitz (born August 5, 1985) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and member of the comedy duo Jake and Amir. He was hired by the comedy website CollegeHumor after becoming an intern there in 2006, and has written and app ...
,
Amir Blumenfeld
Amir Shmuel Blumenfeld (; he, אמיר שמואל בלומנפלד; born January 18, 1983) is an Israeli-American comedian, actor, writer, Television presenter, television host, and member of the American comedy duo, Jake and Amir. Born in Isra ...
, and
Dan Gurewitch
Daniel Gurewitch (; born May 20, 1984) is an American comedian, writer, and actor. He has worked as a senior writer for American comedy website CollegeHumor, and as a writer for the late-night talk and news satire show ''Last Week Tonight with ...
.
Seidell has also written for the ''
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'', ''
Mental Floss'', ''
Metro NY'' and ''
Men's Fitness''. He also co-wrote the book, ''The CollegeHumor Guide to College: Selling Kidneys for Beer Money, Sleeping with Your Professors, Majoring in Communications, and Other Really Good Ideas'', along with the other ''
CollegeHumor'' writers and editors.
Seidell was also a writer for the
ABC
ABC are the first three letters of the Latin script known as the alphabet.
ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
sitcom ''
Trophy Wife''.
References
External links
Streeter's personal website *
Streeter Seidell on CollegeHumor.com
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1982 births
CollegeHumor people
Living people
American stand-up comedians
Writers from New Haven, Connecticut
21st-century American comedians