Mike Drucker is an American stand-up comedian, writer and producer known for his work on ''

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'' (2016), ''

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'' (2014) and ''

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'' (2017).

Filmography

Drucker was a head comedy writer for ''

'' and writer for ''

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''. He also wrote for ''The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon'' in

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. Drucker was a contributing writer to ''

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'' and ''

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''. He has been published in ''

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'' and '' Black20''. He also briefly worked at

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of America, working on script adaptation for the English-language releases of the video games '' Kid Icarus: Uprising'' and ''

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''. During his time as an intern on ''

'', his nerdy mannerisms were noticed by writers and he was subsequently parodied by

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in a '' Bronx Beat'' sketch.

Awards

In 2007, he was one of three winners of Disney's "

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" stand-up competition, a joint-venture by

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and ''

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'' to promote the movie ''

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''. Drucker was nominated for" Outstanding Writing for Non-Fiction program" in 2017 for ''Bill Nye Saves the World''. He was also nominated for a Primetime

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for "Outstanding Writing - Variety Series" for two years running (2018 and 2019) for ''Full Frontal with Samantha Bee''. He has received eight Emmy nominations. Drucker won the

Writers Guild of America Award The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility Th ...

for Best Comedy/Variety in

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, with ''Full Frontal''. He had previously been nominated for the Award several times.

References

External links

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How to be a Person Podcast
on

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