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

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and producer. He began his career on the television series ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Night at the Theatre'', and ''

Guys With Kids ''Guys with Kids'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC, from September 11, 2012, to February 27, 2013, as part of the 2012–13 television schedule. The series was created by Jimmy Fallon and Charlie Grandy and starred ...

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

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through ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

Four Weddings and a Funeral ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It is the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to star Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of ...

, and

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''. He is the son of former ''

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'' star turned politician

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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 ''

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'' 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, ''

'', as a writer and co-executive producer. In 2018, Grandy and Kaling created the NBC show ''

''. He served as an executive producer on Kaling's 2019 miniseries ''

''. He is a writer for ''

'', another Kaling production and is credited with writing two episodes.

Writing credits

Personal life

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

and his first wife Jan (née Gough); his parents divorced in 1983. Grandy graduated from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Awards and nominations

Grandy has won two

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

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

References

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