Adam McKay

Adam McKay is a writer and film director. He is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group and also a former performer at Chicago's ImprovOlympic theater. While a member of the mainstage cast at Second City, he wrote and performed in that company's landmark revue Pinata Full of Bees. In several brilliant, politically-charged sketches, McKay played characters like Noam Chomsky as a substitute kindergarten teacher and a hapless personnel manager trying to inform a corporate vice president (Scott Adsit) of some disastrous IQ test results without losing his own job. (The latter performance was excerpted in Second City's 25th anniversary compilation.) Later, he was a writer for SNL from 1995-2001 and directed several popular short films for the show. Afterwards, he teamed with comedian Will Ferrell to write the feature film ' (2004), which he also directed. He also did some re-writes for the film based on the TV series Bewitched and is working on his next project to be released in 2006.

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Writer - Film director - Upright Citizens Brigade - Improv - ImprovOlympic - Second City - Pinata Full of Bees - Noam Chomsky - Kindergarten - Vice president - Scott Adsit - Anniversary - SNL - 1995 - 2001 - Will Ferrell - Bewitched - 2006

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Since May 2005, he's been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.

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2005 - The Huffington Post

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