Spike Feresten
Spike Feresten was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States on September 3rd, 1964 and is the Screenwriter. At the age of 59, Spike Feresten biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Michael Donovan "Spike" Feresten Jr. (born September 3, 1964) is an American television writer, screenwriter, and television presenter best known for his appearances on Seinfeld, writing for David Letterman, and presenting the late night Talkshow with Spike Feresten from 2006 to 2009.
Spike Feresten, the host of Esquire Network's series Car Matchmaker, is now the host.
Early life and career
Feresten was born in Fall River and raised in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, where he attended public schools. He lived with his parents, Mary Jo and Michael, and Wally Feresten, his younger brother. Feresten began studying Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he planned to study music for a career. However, Feresten claims he was kicked out of his dormitory for lowering light bulbs out of his eighth story window, before seeing David Letterman do the same trick on his show a few weeks later. "I was thinking, 'God,' he's getting paid,'" says the writer. This is what cable television pays you to do. I may have to think twice about this music career." Feresten dropped out of college in order to pursue a career in television, beginning as an intern at NBC in New York City before being promoted to receptionist.
Feresten began writing for Saturday Night Live, where he first received the nickname "spike" when working as a receptionist. "It comes from 'Saturday Night Live'. I was a receptionist, and I had lusks in my hair. And, one of the PAs at the time gave me the nickname. "No problem as long as you don't fire me," I said. You can call me what you like." Feresten began writing for the show when Dennis Miller, who was hosting "Weekend Update," started making quips that Feresten was passing on to him. "I think my first joking had something to do with Oliver North," says the writer. I can't remember it. However, I recall it was like smoking crack when it first appeared on television.
He went from there to David Letterman's writing staff and then to Late Night with David Letterman. Letterman's life was described as an outpouring of stress: the letterman's work was described.
He wrote for the cult cartoon spoof talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast in the 1990s, which he characterized as: "It's true."
Feresten continued to write for The Dana Carvey Show before being drafted into The Simpsons and Seinfeld in 1995.
Feresten wrote one episode for The Simpsons during its seventh season, "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming," in which Sideshow Bob takes responsibility of a TV screen at an air show and demands that all television stations be immediately removed from air, prompting Sideshow Bob to slip back from jail and takes over a TV screen at an airshow. Feresten has said that although he wrote and was credited for the script, it was completely rewritten, leaving only the basic ideas intact, as that was the normal writing process for the show.