David Adam Javerbaum (born August 5, 1971) is an American comedy writer and lyricist. Javerbaum has won 13

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in his career, 11 of them for his work on ''

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''. He runs the popular

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account @TheTweetOfGod, which as of November had 6.2 million followers (the account's site has since been moved to Mastodon). The account was the basis for his play ''

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'', which opened on

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in the spring of 2015 starring Jim Parsons, and again in the spring of 2016 starring Sean Hayes. The play has gone on to receive over 100 productions in 20 countries and 11 languages.

Work

Javerbaum was hired as a staff writer with ''

'' in 1999. He was promoted to head writer in 2002 and became an executive producer at the end of 2006. His work for the program won 11

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s, a

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, three

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s and Television Critics Association Awards for both Best Comedy and Best News Show. He was also one of the three principal authors of the show's textbook parody '' America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction'', which sold 2.6 million copies and won the 2005

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. He became a consulting producer at the start of 2009 and spearheaded the writing of the book's 2010 sequel, '' Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race''; his co-production of the audiobook earned the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Spoken-Word Album. He left the show in 2010. In 2013 he was hired by Fusion to create and executive-produce two news-parody shows, '' No, You Shut Up!'' and '' Good Morning Today'', in conjunction with The Henson Company. In 2015 he worked as a producer for ''

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'' on CBS. In 2016 Javerbaum co-created the

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sitcom ''

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'' with

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. He was also a consulting producer and one of three writers on Lorre's 2018 Netflix show '' The Kominsky Method''. As of 2020 he is co-Executive Producer of the upcoming revival of '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' for Comedy Central. Javerbaum's other work includes serving as head writer and supervising producer for both Comedy Central's first-ever Comedy Awards and '' The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012'', writing and producing the original musical-comedy pilot ''Browsers'' for Amazon in 2013, and writing three episodes for the 2011 relaunch of '' Beavis and Butt-Head''. He wrote for the ''

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'' from 1998 to 1999.

Books

In addition to co-writing the two Daily Show books he is the sole author of three: the 2009 pregnancy satire ''What to Expect When You're Expected: A Fetus's Guide to the First Three Trimesters''; 2011's ''The Last Testament: A Memoir by God'', in conjunction with which he created @TheTweetOfGod; and, also as "God", ''The Book of Pslams: 97 Divine Diatribes on Humanity's Total Failure'', which was published in April 2022 by Simon & Schuster. He also co-authored

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's 2014 memoir, ''The Choose Your Own Autobiography of Neil Patrick Harris''. Javerbaum graduated from

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. While there, he wrote for the humor magazine ''

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'' and served as lyricist and co-bookwriter for two productions of the

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. Later he spent three years contributing headlines to ''

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'', and is credited as one of the writers for its first book, 1998's '' Our Dumb Century''. "A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney," his humorous essay written for ''

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'', appeared in April 2012.

Awards

Along with composer/co-librettist Robert S. Cohen, he wrote ''Suburb,'' which was nominated for Outer Critics' Circle and Drama League awards for Best Off-Broadway Musical in 2001.

Personal life

Javerbaum is the son of Tema and Kenneth S. Javerbaum of

Watchung, New Jersey Watchung () is a borough in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, located approximately west of New York City. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 5,801,Springfield, New Jersey. Javerbaum grew up in a Jewish household, attending Congregation Beth El in South Orange, New Jersey. He married Debra Bard in 2002. Javerbaum grew up in

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, where he attended Columbia High School, graduating in 1989. He was a finalist on the 1988 ''

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'' Teen Tournament and its 1998 Teen Reunion Tournament.

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also called him as his phone-a-friend when Jon was on '' Celebrity Millionaire''.

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