Wayne Federman

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Wayne Federman (born June 22, 1959) is an American comedian, actor, author, writer, comedy historian, podcaster, and musician.

He is noted for numerous stand-up comedy appearances in clubs, theaters, and on television; a biography of "Pistol" Pete Maravich; and supporting comedic acting roles in The X-Files, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Crashing, Legally Blonde, 50 First Dates, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Step Brothers.

He was the head monologue writer for NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in its first season.

He co-produced the Emmy-winning HBO documentary The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling.

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Life and career

Federman was born in Los Angeles, one of six children. At age 10, he grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and then moved to Plantation, Florida. He played the drums and began performing in a band at local weddings at the age of 14. He taught himself ventriloquism and served at several schools (South Plantation High School) as well as local churches and service groups. On Miami radio station WWOK, he outlined his high school's athletic accomplishments on WPLG's Youth and the Issue debating the death penalty. Federman was an extra in John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday, shooting at the Miami Orange Bowl in 1976.

Federman is Jewish.

Federman was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1977, where he worked with legendary acting coach Stella Adler. At the Eisner and Lubin Auditorium with future Broadway actress Donna Murphy, he appeared on Comedy Tonight.

Federman brought his one-man performance to the 13th Street Theater after attending NYU. He was a member of Brother Theodore's rotation. He appeared in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the theater's long-running production in which he appeared in six scenes. He began doing stand-up comedy at various New York Comedy Clubs, most notable The Comic Strip (now known as Comic Strip Live) and Catch a Rising Star. It was during these years that he integrated music into his act. On his electric ukulele, he closed his sets by playing hard rock songs from Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, and The Rolling Stones.

Federman made his national television debut on syndicated stand-up show Comedy Tonight in 1986. He has also appeared in two home videos: New Wave Comedy and the Dodge Comedy Showcase.

Federman began working at The Improv, IGBYs, The Laugh Factory, and The Comedy & Magic Club in 1987. He taped an assortment of televised stand-up performances, including An Evening at the Improv, George Schlatter's Comedy Club, CBS Morning Show, Minimum Drinks, Good Times Cafe, and MTV 12 Hour Comedy Hour. He toured extensively, lecturing at more than 200 colleges. He co-founded "No Fat Guy," with Marc Raider, Scott LaRose, and Steve Hytner, and Steve Hytner, and then formed a music-comedy crew with Jordan Brady.

Federman started booking television ads and appeared in hundreds of national spots for clients, including Eureka Vain, Holiday Inn, US Navy, Wendy's, Taboo, Eagles, and Eagles (with Greg Kinnear), McDonald's, Glad Bags, Sprite, Total Raisin Bran, Bran, Suzuki Samurai, Sizzler, Del Monte, Coors, and 7–11. In the long-running Hertz Rent A Car campaign, he came to be the first "not exactly" guy. Federman first appeared on Baywatch, Amen, Dear John, A Different World, Doogie Howser, and News Radio, with some minor television appearances. He appeared on L.A. Law (3 episodes) and Living Single (3 episodes).

Federman made his debut on The Tonight Show in 1994 and has since appeared on many shows. He has appeared on Late Fridays, Comedy Showcase, and Premium Blend. He filmed his own 1/2-hour stand-up special for the series Comedy Central Presents in 2004.

Wayne portrayed Larry Sander's brother Stan on The Larry Sanders Show in 1998 and was later reunited with Garry Shandling on The X-Files' episode "Hollywood A.D." "Wayne Federman," a Hollywood producer/writer and college acquaintance of assistant FBI director Walter Skinner, was written and directed by David Duchovny.

Wayne brought him to film roles in Jack Frost, Dill Scallion, Legally Blonde, 50 First Dates, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, 4 Year-Old Virgin, Unaccompanied Minors, Knocked Up, Step Brothers, Comedians, and The House. He became known for being in one scene of a film and then disappearing; he calls this film "federman-and-out."

Federman landed the role of "Johnson" on the short-lived CBS sitcom Courting Alex in 2006. He co-wrote and appeared in Max and Josh, a short film that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the Volkswagen Relentless Drive Award.

Federman produced, produced, and presented A Very Federman Christmas at the Los Angeles nightclub Largo from 2007 to 2013. Guests included Paul F. Tompkins, Kevin Nealon, Jon Hamm, Dana Gould, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Bennett, Greg Behrendt, Margaret Behrendt, Willie Garson, Matt Besser, John C. Reilly, and Andrew Daly.

Federman produced a series of tie-in radio ads in 1990, when shooting a television commercial for McDonald's (directed by Henry Winkler). This was the start of his voice-over career. Since then, his distinctive voice has been heard on hundreds of radio and television spots. In the long-running Florida Orange Juice campaign, he was the voice of the talking ham and cheese sandwich.

He appeared on the animated series The Wild Thornberrys, King of the Hill, and American Dad, as well as the voice of Cartoon Cartoon Network Friday.

Federman produced a series of Labatt Beer commercials in 2007, depicting a fish, a deer, a boulder, and a slab of ice. When viewers protested of the implied vulgarity, this commercial was eventually pulled and re-edited.

Federman became the first camel (Phil) in a GEICO insurance company in 2015.

Federman played a fictional character from George Carlin's American Dream in 2022.

Federman and Marshall Terrill co-author a new, sanctioned book about NBA basketball legend Pete Maravich in 2000. The book, Maravich, was released on January 3, 2007, and it was closely affiliated with the Maravich family. It became a Amazon Sports Bestseller.

Federman was interviewed for and served as senior advisor on Emmy award-winning CBS Sports documentary Pistol Pete: Pete Maravich's Life and Times in 2000. He appeared on both ESPN SportsCentury : Pete Maravich and ESPN's SEC Storied documentary Maravich.

Federman produced The Ultimate Pistol Pete Maravich MIX, a highlight montage created in 2007. On YouTube, Yahoo Video, and Google Video, this collection of basketball clips from both Maravich's NCAA and NBA careers was posted. In its first month, it received over one million hits in its first month, and was featured in both Sports Illustrated and Dime magazines.

Federman, along with Tudor Sherrard and Matthew Porretta, became a founding member of the Truck Stop Harrys in the 1990s.

Federman co-wrote several songs for the film Dill Scallion, was the music director and keyboardist for Maria Bamford's critically acclaimed The Special Special Special Special Special Special Edition.

Federman began as the piano player and music producer for Never Not Funny's annual internet telethon, Pardcast-A-Thon, beginning in 2014.

Federman migrated to New York in 2009 to help launch NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In its first season and departure in January 2010.

Federman discovered a long-lost live session of the GM Theatre on April 20, 2010 while doing a television retrospective for the Reagan Centennial Celebrations. The episode, which occurred in December 1954, was significant because it partnered Ronald Reagan and James Dean. Highlights from CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and Good Morning America were among the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and Good Morning America.

During Operation Iraqi Freedom, Federman was one of the last comedians to tour and perform for US combat troops around Iraq.

Woody Allen was one of Federman's stand-up jokes ("I've come to really admire Woody Allen." It's been 14 years, and he's now married to the same daughter.") The No. 1 in the U.S. was chosen to lead the pack. A New York Post poll revealed the year's best joke of the year in 2010.

Federman and James Hill headlined the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain in June 2011.

The annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival, which featured comedians screening the films they love in January 2012. Participants included Paul F. Tompkins, Garry Shandling, Andy Kindler, Kevin Pollak, Margaret Cho, Doug Benson, Zach Galifianakis, Bill Burr, Will Forte, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kevin Pollak, Margaret Cho, Kevin Pollak, Will Benson, Matt Harty, David Oswalt, Matt Garmolin, Will Forte, Will Forte, Susan Griffin, Beth Hader, Patton Oswalt, Matthew Griffin, Susan Silverman, Susan Silverman,

Federman appeared in a national GEICO commercial in 2014 with singer Kenny Rogers. During a poker game, Rogers performs a portion of his song "The Gambler."

Federman co-wrote the Independent Spirit Awards in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015, hosted by Seth Rogen, Andy Samberg, Patton Oswalt, and Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell respectively, as a team. Federman received three Writers Guild of America Award nominations as well as one Emmy Award nomination for his work.

Federman also wrote about the Creative Arts Emmys (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2020), The Critics Choice Awards (2016, 2017, 2020), and the SAG Awards (2019).

Federman has appeared on over 100 podcasts, including Battleship Pretension and Comedy Bang! Bang!, The Nerdist Podcast, Never Funny, Doug Loves Movies, You Made It Weird, The Adam Corolla Show, Sagittious History, FitzDog Radio, The Carson Blog, Sklarbro Country, Joe Rogan's Accountability, Joe Meyers, and The 500 with Josh Adams Meyers.

Federman co-hosted the podcast Human Conversation with comedian Erin McGathy from March 2015 to December 2017. Without the assistance of technology, the two discussed a variety of, oft-delightful, and meandering topics. When Erin McGathy moved to Ireland, he was banned from speaking with them.

In September 2018, Federman launched The History of Standup, a new podcast. The two co-star Andrew Steven and co-host Andrew Steven chronicle the evolution of stand-up comedy from Vaindeville to Netflix. They completed their second season in 2019 with a series of "stages, scenes, and events." Margaret Cho, Mike Birbiglia, Tig Notaro, Lily Tomlin, Demetri Martin, Shecky Greene, Judd Apatow, Pete Holmes, journalist Julie Seabaugh, and comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff are among the guests who have appeared on The History of Standup.

Federman co-produced Garry Shandling's Emmy-winning HBO film The Zen Diaries. Dinner With Don Rickles, Don Rickles' award-winning web series, as well as Judd Apatow's 2017 Netflix stand-up special, The Return.

Federman's American Dream, a two-part HBO series, was released in 2022.

Federman wrote an article in November 2011 describing Ronald Reagan's pivotal role during the 1960 SAG strike that created residual compensation for film actors. It was published in The Atlantic.

Federman wrote an article on Pete Maravich's untimely death in 1987 in January 2013. The essay, titled "A Miracle Heart," was published in Slam Magazine.

Federman wrote a long-form article entitled "From Sullivan to CK: A History of Modern American Standup" for Splitsider magazine in September 2015.

Federman penned two articles for Vulture magazine in 2016. One, on the lasting impression of comedian Richard Pryor's 1979 concert film, and the other on the many comedy venues that Federman appeared in over his thirty-plus years of stand-up comedy, is included in this collection.

"The Wild Career of Jackie Mason" was Federman's first article for Vulture in 2021.

The Chronicles of Federman is a three-volume retrospective of rare audio recordings of Wayne Federman's stand-up career (1984-2015). It was created by AspectialThing Records and first published in 2016. Judd Apatow's liner notes were drafted by Judd Apatow.

Federman's tenure as an adjunct lecturer at The University of Southern California began in the spring of 2017. For the USC School of Dramatic Arts, he teaches level-2 stand-up comedy and a critical studies course on the history of stand-up comedy.

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