Charles Brendan Grandy (born March 5, 1974) is an American

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of one-liners, stories, ...

, television writer and producer. He began his career on the television series '' The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Grandy has had a string of collaborations with actress and producer

Mindy Kaling Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979),Additional archive on June 25, 2015. known professionally as Mindy Kaling (), is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer. She first gained recognition starring as Kelly Kapoor in the N ...

through '' The Mindy Project'', '' Champions'', and '' Four Weddings and a Funeral''. He is the son of former '' Love Boat'' star turned politician

Fred Grandy Fredrick Lawrence Grandy (born June 29, 1948) is an American actor who played "Gopher" on the sitcom ''The Love Boat'' and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was most recently th ...

Career

After working as a stand-up comedian, Grandy turned to television writing and became a writer on Jon Stewart's ''The Daily Show'' in 2001. After his ''Daily Show'' stint, Grandy became a writer and producer on ''Saturday Night Live'', where he worked until 2008. He worked on the '' Weekend Update'' sketch. In the same year, he joined the writing staff of the fifth season of the American version of ''The Office''. At the beginning of the sixth season he became a co-producer and by the time the show entered its seventh season, he had become a supervising producer of the series. After the cancellation of his show, ''

'', he joined his former ''

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'' cohort,

, on the second season of her show, '' The Mindy Project'', as a writer and co-executive producer. In 2018, Grandy and Kaling created the NBC show '' Champions''. He served as an executive producer on Kaling's 2019 miniseries '' Four Weddings and a Funeral''.

Writing credits

Personal life

Grandy married Sage Davis in July 2004. He is the son of actor and politician

. He graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

Awards and nominations

Grandy has won two

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, one for ''The Daily Show'' the other for Saturday Night Live. In 2009 he received two

Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America is the joint efforts of two different US labor unions representing TV and film writers: * The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO * The Writers Gu ...

award nominations, one for the fifth season of ''The Office'' and another for writing the episode ''Broke''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grandy, Charlie American male television writers American television producers Living people 1974 births Harvard College alumni