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'''David Mandel''' (born <!-- Valid citation required if adding EXACT DATE OF BIRTH for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) -->{{birth based on age as of date|35|2005|12|28|noage=0}})<ref>{{cite news |last=Chun |first=Alex |date=2005-12-28 |title=Superpowers Get Flexed at Auction |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |page=E3 |quote=David Mandel, 35...begain acquiring superhero art 10 years ago when he was a writer on 'Seinfeld.'}}</ref> is an executive producer and [[showrunner]] of ''[[Veep]]'', and was also an executive producer and director of ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' and ''[[Seinfeld]]''. He is also a comedian,<ref>{{cite web
'''David Mandel''' (born <!-- Valid citation required if adding EXACT DATE OF BIRTH for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) -->{{birth based on age as of date|35|2005|12|28|noage=0}})<ref>{{cite news |last=Chun |first=Alex |date=2005-12-28 |title=Superpowers Get Flexed at Auction |work=[[The Los Angeles Times]] |page=E3 |quote=David Mandel, 35...begain acquiring superhero art 10 years ago when he was a writer on 'Seinfeld.'}}</ref> is writer, actor, director, and producer. He was an executive producer and [[showrunner]] of ''[[Veep]]'', and was also an executive producer and director of ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' and ''[[Seinfeld]]''. He is also a comedian,<ref>{{cite web
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| access-date=28 July 2018}}</ref> and one of the producer-directors of the teen-comedy ''[[EuroTrip]]''. He was a writer for ''Seinfeld'' during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons and also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film adaptation of ''[[The Cat in the Hat (film)|The Cat in the Hat]]''. He is one of the creators of ''[[Clerks: The Animated Series]]'', and he was a writer for ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. He had a brief stint as a host of ''[[Dave and Steve's Video Game Explosion]]'', a comedy video game review show that aired late nights on [[TBS (U.S. TV channel)|TBS]] as part of the [[Burly Bear Network]]. The show only lasted a few episodes before the entire block was canceled.


Mandel is also one of the authors of ''Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie'', a comprehensive collection of ''[[Star Wars]]'' artwork by [[Ralph McQuarrie]], published in 2016 by [[Abrams Books]].<ref>{{cite web
Mandel is also one of the authors of ''Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie'', a comprehensive collection of ''[[Star Wars]]'' artwork by [[Ralph McQuarrie]], published in 2016 by [[Abrams Books]].<ref>{{cite web
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==Filmography==
==''Seinfeld'' episodes==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"
Mandel wrote the ''Seinfeld'' episode "[[The Bizarro Jerry]]", and on the commentary track to the DVD, has stated that this was his favorite ''Seinfeld'' of the episodes he wrote.
|-

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
===Season 7: 1995–1996===
|-
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
!rowspan="2" scope="col" | Title !!rowspan="2" scope="col" | Year !! colspan="3" scope="col" | Credited as !! rowspan="1" scope="col" class="unsortable"| Notes
! # !! Title !! Director !! Writer(s) !! Original airdate !! width="60"|Production Code
|-
{{Episode list
! |Director!! | Writer!! | Producer!!
|Title=[[The Pool Guy]]
|-
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
| 1992–1995 || ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' || || {{yes}} || ||
|Aux2=David Mandel
|-
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1995|11|16}}
| 1995–1998 || ''[[Seinfeld]]'' || || {{yes}} || {{yes}} ||
|ProdCode=708
|-
|EpisodeNumber=118
| 2000–2002 || ''[[Clerks: The Animated Series]]'' || || {{yes}} || {{yes}} ||
|ShortSummary=Elaine befriends Susan. Jerry meets his pool guy outside a movie, and then he cannot get rid of him. George is worried by Elaine wanting to get to know Susan. Kramer's new phone number is similar to a film information line. When Kramer keeps getting wrong numbers, he begins giving out the information for movie show times a la "Moviefone".
|-
}}
| 2003 || ''[[The Cat in the Hat (film)|The Cat in the Hat]]'' || || {{yes}} || ||
{{Episode list
|-
|Title=[[The Friars Club]]
| 2004 || ''[[EuroTrip]]'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || Uncredited co-director
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|-
|Aux2=David Mandel
| 2005–2011 || ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} ||
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1996|3|7}}
|-
|ProdCode=718
| 2012 || ''[[The Dictator (2012 film)|The Dictator]]'' || || {{yes}} || {{yes}} ||
|EpisodeNumber=128
|-
|ShortSummary=George successfully delays his wedding. Jerry goes out with Susan's best friend. Jerry loses a jacket he "borrowed" for dinner at the [[New York Friars' Club|Friars Club]]. Kramer tries to duplicate the sleeping patterns of [[Da Vinci]]. [[Jacopo Peterman|Peterman]] hires a deaf employee ([[Rob Schneider]]) and Elaine suffers the consequences, when she gets loaded with most of his work.
| 2012 || ''[[The Simpsons]]'' || || {{yes}} || ||
}}
|-
| 2013 || ''[[Clear History]]'' || || {{yes}} || ||
|-
| 2015 || ''[[The Comedians (2015 TV series)|The Comedians]]'' || {{yes}} || || ||
|-
| 2016–2019 || ''[[Veep]]'' || {{yes}} || {{yes}} || {{yes}} ||
|-
| 2023 || ''[[White House Plumbers (miniseries)|White House Plumbers]]'' || {{yes}} || || {{yes}} ||
|}
|}


==''Seinfeld''-related credits==
===Season 8: 1996–1997===
Mandel wrote the ''Seinfeld'' episode "[[The Bizarro Jerry]]", and on the commentary track to the DVD, has stated that this was his favorite ''Seinfeld'' of the episodes he wrote.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
===Writer===
! # !! Title !! Director !! Writer(s) !! Original airdate !! width="60"|Production Code
* "[[The Pool Guy]]
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Bizarro Jerry]]
* "[[The Friars Club]]"
* "[[The Bizarro Jerry]]"
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
* "[[The Abstinence]]"
|Aux2=David Mandel
* "[[The Susie]]"
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1996|10|3}}
* "[[The Butter Shave]]
|ProdCode=803
* "[[The Voice (Seinfeld episode)|The Voice]]"
|EpisodeNumber=137
* "[[The Betrayal]]
|ShortSummary=Elaine's new friends are direct opposites of Jerry, George and Kramer. Jerry dates a woman with "man hands". George uses a picture of Jerry's date to meet supermodels. Kramer uses a bathroom in an office building and starts working there.
* "[[The Maid (Seinfeld episode)|The Maid]]"
}}
* "[[The Puerto Rican Day]]"
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Abstinence]]
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|Aux2=David Mandel
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1996|11|21}}
|ProdCode=809
|EpisodeNumber=143
|ShortSummary=George's girlfriend has [[infectious mononucleosis]] and they will not be able to have sex for at least 6 weeks. Jerry agrees to make an appearance at his former junior high school's career day. Elaine meets a doctor who does not have a license yet. Kramer smokes in the coffee shop and is asked to leave.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Susie]]
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|Aux2=David Mandel
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1997|2|13}}
|ProdCode=815
|EpisodeNumber=149
|ShortSummary=Elaine's co-worker Peggy begins calling her "Susie" and after a confrontation with Elaine, Peggy reports the confrontation to Peterman, leading him to believe "Susie" is an actual employee. Jerry's ex-friend who once labeled him a "phony" becomes a bookie. George's girlfriend wants to break up with him but he avoids it by screening his phone calls. Kramer places a bet.
}}
|}

===Season 9: 1997–1998===<!-- This section is linked from [[Xena]] -->
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
! # !! Title !! Director !! Writer(s) !! Original airdate !! width="60"|Production Code
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Butter Shave]]
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|Aux2=[[Alec Berg]] & [[Jeff Schaffer]] and David Mandel
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1997|9|25}} |ProdCode=901 |EpisodeNumber=157
|ShortSummary=Kramer starts using butter as an aftershave. George uses a cane when he applies for an interview at a sporting goods firm, where they think he is disabled. Jerry is annoyed that Kenny Bania is a "time slot hit." Elaine goes to Europe with David Puddy.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Voice (Seinfeld episode)|The Voice]]
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|Aux2=[[Alec Berg]] & [[Jeff Schaffer]] and David Mandel
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1997|10|2}}
|ProdCode=902
|EpisodeNumber=158
|ShortSummary=George's employer learns that George is not actually handicapped. Jerry creates a voice in response to the sounds his girlfriend's stomach makes. Kramer hires a [[New York University]] intern to be his assistant. Elaine begins seeing Puddy again.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Betrayal]]
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|Aux2=[[Peter Mehlman]] & David Mandel
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1997|11|20}}
|ProdCode=908
|EpisodeNumber=164
|ShortSummary=Elaine drags Jerry and George to [[India]] where they attend the wedding of Sue Ellen Mischke. Jerry's ex-girlfriend, Nina, begins dating George. Kramer learns that a friend wishes he would drop dead. ''(All of the events in the episode occur backwards with the end at the beginning and vice versa)''.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Maid (Seinfeld episode)|The Maid]]
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|Aux2=[[Alec Berg]] & [[Jeff Schaffer]] and David Mandel & [[Kit Boss]] & [[Peter Mehlman]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1998|4|30}}
|ProdCode=919
|EpisodeNumber=175
|ShortSummary=Jerry hires a maid who he then starts sleeping with. Elaine discovers she has 57 messages on her answering machine when Kramer's food-order service tries to fax her. George tries to get a nickname but a co-worker gets the one he chose instead.
}}
{{Episode list
|Title=[[The Puerto Rican Day]]
|Aux1=[[Andy Ackerman]]
|Aux2=[[Alec Berg]] & [[Jeff Schaffer]], [[Jennifer Crittenden]], [[Spike Feresten]], [[Bruce Eric Kaplan]], <br>[[Steve Koren]], David Mandel, [[Dan O'Keefe (writer)|Dan O'Keefe]], [[Gregg Kavet]] & [[Andy Robin]]
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|df=yes|1998|5|7}}
|ProdCode=920
|EpisodeNumber=176
|ShortSummary=The gang leaves a [[New York Mets]] game early in order to beat the [[traffic jam|traffic]] but are blocked by a Puerto Rican day parade. Each go their separate ways in order to get home.
}}
|}


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 16:06, 10 December 2022

David Mandel
Born1969 or 1970 (age 53–54)
Occupation(s)Writer, actor, producer

David Mandel (born 1969 or 1970 (age 53–54))[1] is writer, actor, director, and producer. He was an executive producer and showrunner of Veep, and was also an executive producer and director of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld. He is also a comedian,[2] and one of the producer-directors of the teen-comedy EuroTrip. He was a writer for Seinfeld during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons and also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film adaptation of The Cat in the Hat. He is one of the creators of Clerks: The Animated Series, and he was a writer for Saturday Night Live. He had a brief stint as a host of Dave and Steve's Video Game Explosion, a comedy video game review show that aired late nights on TBS as part of the Burly Bear Network. The show only lasted a few episodes before the entire block was canceled.

Mandel is also one of the authors of Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie, a comprehensive collection of Star Wars artwork by Ralph McQuarrie, published in 2016 by Abrams Books.[3]

Since October 2020, Mandel has hosted the podcast The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of detailing movie props and collectables with writer Ryan Condel.[4]

He is Jewish.[5]

Filmography

Title Year Credited as Notes
Director Writer Producer
1992–1995 Saturday Night Live Yes
1995–1998 Seinfeld Yes Yes
2000–2002 Clerks: The Animated Series Yes Yes
2003 The Cat in the Hat Yes
2004 EuroTrip Yes Yes Yes Uncredited co-director
2005–2011 Curb Your Enthusiasm Yes Yes Yes
2012 The Dictator Yes Yes
2012 The Simpsons Yes
2013 Clear History Yes
2015 The Comedians Yes
2016–2019 Veep Yes Yes Yes
2023 White House Plumbers Yes Yes

Seinfeld-related credits

Mandel wrote the Seinfeld episode "The Bizarro Jerry", and on the commentary track to the DVD, has stated that this was his favorite Seinfeld of the episodes he wrote.

Writer

References

  1. ^ Chun, Alex (December 28, 2005). "Superpowers Get Flexed at Auction". The Los Angeles Times. p. E3. David Mandel, 35...begain acquiring superhero art 10 years ago when he was a writer on 'Seinfeld.'
  2. ^ Sipher, Devan (January 14, 2007). "Rebecca Whitney and David Mandel". The New York Times. Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  3. ^ Floyd, James (September 20, 2016). "CELEBRATING A MASTER: INSIDE STAR WARS ART: RALPH MCQUARRIE". Retrieved July 28, 2018.
  4. ^ The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of - Roosterteeth, retrieved February 4, 2021
  5. ^ Bloom, Nate (September 14, 2017). "Jewish entertainers well-represented at Emmy Awards". St. Louis Jewish Light. Archived from the original on April 26, 2019. Retrieved July 28, 2018.

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