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

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Writer: The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. Skilled writers demonstrate skills in using language to portray ideas and images, whether producing fi...

Film director: A film director orchestrates the artistic and dramatic aspects of a film. A female director is sometimes called a directress. The role typically includes:...

Upright Citizens Brigade: The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic. The current incarnation consists of Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Besser and Matt Walsh. Other original members were Ali Farahnakian, Adam McKay (former head writer for Satur...

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