Steve Koren
Steve Koren | |
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Alma mater | Binghamton University |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Steve Koren is an American writer/producer and screenwriter. Most notably, he has written for Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, and Veep. He also wrote or co-wrote the movies Bruce Almighty, Click, A Night at the Roxbury, and Superstar.
In addition, he has contributed to Curb Your Enthusiasm (specifically, the "Palestinian Chicken" episode).
Koren is a native of Queens, New York,[1] and attended Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens.
Career
After college, he began his career as an NBC page gathering coffee for the other employees. Among his other duties as a page was working for Saturday Night Live. As a Rockefeller Center tour guide, Koren would hand jokes to David Letterman and Dennis Miller as they passed in the hall, which landed him a writing gig on SNL.[2] He also occasionally acted for the series.[3]
While at SNL, he wrote/co-wrote Weekend Update, Mary Katherine Gallagher, The Roxbury Guys, Adam Sandler’s The Denise Show, The Joe Pesci Show, Jim Carrey’s Hot Tub Lifeguard, among many other sketches.
In addition, he helped write and performed on Adam Sandler’s Platinum debut album They’re All Gonna Laugh at You.
Later, he became a writer for Seinfeld, and wrote the episodes "The Abstinence", "The English Patient", "The Serenity Now", and "The Dealership". He was also one of the contributors to the teleplay for "The Frogger" and "The Puerto Rican Day".[citation needed]
In the episode "The Van Buren Boys", a character named Steve Koren is George Costanza's choice for the first Susan Biddle Ross Scholarship to be granted by the Susan Ross Foundation.[citation needed]
Koren has executive-produced several films such as Adam Sandler's Grown Ups (2010), Just Go with It (2011), Blended (2014), and Pixels (2015). Koren also wrote the movie Superstar, starring Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell.
Filmography
Writing credits
- Saturday Night Live (TV) (1991–1998)
- Seinfeld (TV) (1996–1998)
- A Night at the Roxbury (1998) (co-written with Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan)
- Superstar (1999) (written as Steven Wayne Koren)
- Everything But the Girl (TV movie) (2001)
- Bruce Almighty (2003) (co-written with Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk)
- Click (2006) (co-written with Mark O'Keefe)
- Fishy (short film) (2006)
- Jack and Jill (2011) (co-written with Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel)
- A Thousand Words (2012)
- Veep (2016)
Acting credits
- "The Millennium" (May 1, 1997) - as the character Steve Koren
"The Dealership" (January 8, 1998) - as the Cab Driver
"The Finale" (May 14, 1998) - as a Juror
- Fishy (short film) (2006) - as Dad
- Pixels (film) (2015) - as White House Reporter #3
Awards and nominations
- Emmy Award nominee (1992, 1993) for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program; the nomination was shared with other writers for Saturday Night Live
- Emmy Award nominee (1998) for Outstanding Comedy Series; the nomination was shared with other writers for Seinfeld
References
- ^ "They Came From Queens". Queens Tribune. 2005. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
- ^ "60 Perspectives - Harpur at 60". Binghamton University. Archived from the original on May 13, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2012.
- ^ "SNL Archives: Cast: Steve Koren". Saturday Night Live. Archived from the original on August 18, 2012. Retrieved September 20, 2012.
External links
- Steve Koren at IMDb
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- Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr – Can't Stop the Music (1980)
- Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, and Robert Getchell – Mommie Dearest (1981)
- Robin Moore and Laird Koenig – Inchon (1982)
- John Kershaw, Shawn Randall, and Ellen Shephard – The Lonely Lady (1983)
- John Derek – Bolero (1984)
- Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron, and Kevin Jarre – Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
- Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz – Howard the Duck (1986)
- Jonathan Reynolds and Bill Cosby – Leonard Part 6 (1987)
- Heywood Gould – Cocktail (1988)
- Eddie Murphy – Harlem Nights (1989)
- Daniel Waters, James Cappe, and David Arnott – The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
- Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters, Bruce Willis, and Robert Kraft – Hudson Hawk (1991)
- Blake Snyder, William Osborne, and William Davies – Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
- Amy Holden Jones – Indecent Proposal (1993)
- Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, Steven E. de Souza, and various others – The Flintstones (1994)
- Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995)
- Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996)
- Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997)
- Joe Eszterhas – An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1998)
- Jim Thomas, John Thomas, S. S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, Jeffrey Price, and Peter S. Seaman – Wild Wild West (1999)
- Corey Mandell and J. David Shapiro – Battlefield Earth (2000)
- Tom Green and Derek Harvie – Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
- George Lucas and Jonathan Hales – Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)
- Martin Brest – Gigli (2003)
- Theresa Rebeck, John Brancato, Michael Ferris, and John Rogers – Catwoman (2004)
- Jenny McCarthy – Dirty Love (2005)
- Leora Barish and Henry Bean – Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
- Jeffrey Hammond – I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
- Mike Myers and Graham Gordy – The Love Guru (2008)
- Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
- M. Night Shyamalan – The Last Airbender (2010)
- Steve Koren, Adam Sandler, and Ben Zook – Jack and Jill (2011)
- David Caspe – That's My Boy (2012)
- Steve Baker, Ricky Blitt, Will Carlough, Tobias Carlson, Jacob Fleisher, Patrik Forsberg, Will Graham, James Gunn, Claes Kjellstrom, Jack Kukoda, Bob Odenkirk, Bill O'Malley, Matthew Alec Portenoy, Greg Pritikin, Rocky Russo, Olle Sarri, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Jeremy Sosenko, Jonathan van Tulleken, and Jonas Wittenmark – Movie 43 (2013)
- Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey – Saving Christmas (2014)
- Kelly Marcel – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
- Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
- Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, and Mike White – The Emoji Movie (2017)
- Niall Leonard – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
- Lee Hall and Tom Hooper – Cats (2019)
- Tomasz Klimala, Barbara Białowąs, Tomasz Mandes, and Blanka Lipińska – 365 Days (2020/21)
- Joe DiPietro and David Bryan – Diana: The Musical (2021)
- Andrew Dominik – Blonde (2022)
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield – Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)