Fred Graver is an American television comedy writer, producer, and network executive. Most recently he's been the Creative Lead, TV @Twitter and Senior Vice President, Digital & Social for Discovery Communications. Fred was co-editor-in-chief of '' National Lampoon'', along with Sean Kelly, under the pseudonym L. Dennis Plunkett. He left the ''Lampoon'' in 1984 to join ''

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'', where he worked as a writer until 1990. While at Letterman, he wrote several unproduced screenplays with

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(who also edited ''National Lampoon''). In 1990, Graver worked for

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's production company

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. He left a year later to join the staff of ''

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,'' where he worked until 1992, when he joined the staff of ''

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'' as a writer and eventual co-producer. In 1994, the

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convinced Graver and good friend

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to return to New York, where the two wrote for ''

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''. In 1995, Graver leapt into the internet as executive producer of convergence programming

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and ABC Cable. In 1999, he began work as an executive at

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and VH1, where he joined their MTV Networks Online division as head of VH1.com and Sonicnet.com"Into the new media. Again." Fred Seibert dot com
/ref> He then went into television programming as the head of VH1, and created the show ''

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''. In 2010, Fred was named SVP of Programming for the

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. In 2012, Graver joined

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as Creative Director of Media Partnerships.

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