Michael Showalter

Michael Showalter

Born: June 17, 1970
in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Michael English Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is one third of the sketch comedy trio Stella. Showalter first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's The State, which aired from 1993 to 1995. He co-wrote (with David Wain) and starred in Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and he wrote, directed, and starred in The Baxter (2005), with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux and Elizabeth Banks. Both of these movies featured many of his co-stars from The State, and so do several of his other projects.

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It Started As a Joke
Title: It Started As a Joke
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: Movie
This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s unique brand of humor and his role in the alternative comedy movement, offers a bittersweet goodbye to an era, and reminds us of the healing properties of comedy – even in the most challenging of life’s circumstances.
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Title: Sugar Rush
Character: Self - Judge
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: TV
A relentlessly fast-paced baking competition that challenges brilliant bakers to create sweet treats that look and taste amazing – all against the clock. Who will race to the finish and win $10,000?
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Title: Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
Character: Coop / Ronald Reagan
Released: August 4, 2017
Type: TV
A decade after their wild summer as junior counselors, the gang reunites for a weekend of bonding, hanky-panky and hair-raising adventures.
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Title: Search Party
Character: Max
Released: November 21, 2016
Type: TV
A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.
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Giles Vanderhoot
Title: Giles Vanderhoot
Character: Giles Vanderhoot
Released: April 26, 2016
Type: Movie
No one is better at portraying rehabilitationamalist Giles Vanderhoot than Vanderhoot himself.
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Title: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Character: Coop
Released: July 31, 2015
Type: TV
It's the first day of camp in this outrageous prequel to the hilarious 2001 cult classic movie. And at Camp Firewood, anything can happen.
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Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
Title: Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
Character: Himself
Released: July 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage offers a glimpse into the comic minds behind a "Wet Hot" summer-camp cult hit featuring many future stars.
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Misery Loves Comedy
Title: Misery Loves Comedy
Character: Self
Released: January 23, 2015
Type: Movie
Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad—take on this question, sharing anecdotes and insights with lively enthusiasm.
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Two Night Stand
Title: Two Night Stand
Character: Rick Raines
Released: September 26, 2014
Type: Movie
After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of Manhattan on ice. They're now trapped together in a tiny apartment, forced to get to know each other way more than any one night stand should.
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Title: @midnight with Chris Hardwick
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2013
Type: TV
Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop culture.
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Wanderlust
Title: Wanderlust
Character: Himself
Released: February 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commune where free love rules.
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Title: Bob's Burgers
Character: Ethan (voice)
Released: January 9, 2011
Type: TV
Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.
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Stella: Live in Boston
Title: Stella: Live in Boston
Character: Michael
Released: August 13, 2009
Type: Movie
The comedy trio performs live in Boston.
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Title: Michael & Michael Have Issues
Released: July 15, 2009
Type: TV
Michael & Michael Have Issues is a cable television comedy series starring comedians and actors Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, who created the series. Both comedians appeared together in several TV comedy series, including The State, and Stella. The show premiered on July 15, 2009, on Comedy Central. Showalter and Black confirmed on March 3, 2010 via their Twitter accounts that the show had been canceled.
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Birthday
Title: Birthday
Character: Michael
Released: December 15, 2008
Type: Movie
"Birthday" is a new short film from the unique three-man comedy group STELLA:
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Title: Childrens Hospital
Character: Nils Vildervaan
Released: December 8, 2008
Type: TV
A hospital isn't a place for lazy people. It's a place for smart people who take care of people who aren't smart enough to keep themselves healthy. So begins Children's Hospital, a parody series that follows the lives, loves and laughs of a hospital staff.
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The Ten
Title: The Ten
Character: Police Lt. Flarn Bleern
Released: August 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
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Reno 911!: Miami
Title: Reno 911!: Miami
Character: Paul
Released: February 23, 2007
Type: Movie
A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.
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Griffin & Phoenix
Title: Griffin & Phoenix
Character: Terry's Fiancé
Released: September 12, 2006
Type: Movie
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
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The Baxter
Title: The Baxter
Character: Elliot Sherman
Released: August 26, 2005
Type: Movie
A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he calls a "Baxter": the kind of calm, unexciting fellow who "wears sock garters" and "enjoys raking leaves." Loved by bosses and parents, Elliot is a perfectly nice guy. And that's his problem.
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Title: Stella
Released: June 29, 2005
Type: TV
Stella was a short-lived television series that originally ran from June 28, 2005 to August 30, 2005 on the American television channel Comedy Central, created by and starring Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain, the three members of the sketch comedy troupe of the same name and former cast members of MTV's The State. Stella, as a comedy troupe, has existed since 1997. It has a cult following and plays to sold out shows across the USA. The show aired on Tuesdays at 10:30 PM, EST. In September, after 10 episodes, Stella's timeslot was filled by Mind of Mencia. On March 8, 2006, the following message was posted on Stella's official website: "The STELLA series was on Comedy Central last summer. The network has officially decided not to renew it for a second season," thus effectively cancelling the series. The first season DVD was released on September 12, 2006. Episodes have also been available on iTunes and Hulu and some episodes on Joost. Stella premiered in Australia on The Comedy Channel on May 3, 2007.
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Title: American Dad!
Character: Mark (voice)
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."
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Hair High
Title: Hair High
Character: Wally (voice)
Released: April 17, 2004
Type: Movie
Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.
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Title: Cheap Seats
Released: February 4, 2004
Type: TV
Cheap Seats without Ron Parker, commonly shortened to Cheap Seats, is a television program broadcast on ESPN Classic hosted by brothers Randy and Jason Sklar. The brothers appear as fictional ESPN tape librarians who amuse themselves by watching old, campy sports broadcasts and wisecracking about them. Cheap Seats debuted on February 4, 2004, with an episode that showed ESPN sportscaster "Ron Parker" getting buried under a shelf full of tapes, forcing the Sklars to fill in, as they were behind Parker on the "hosting depth chart". The founding production team behind "Cheap Seats" included Mark Shapiro, Showrunner, Todd Pellegrino, James Cohen and Joseph Maar. Cheap Seats was originally an hour-long program. There were about 10 one hour-long episodes in the first season, all of which were subsequently cut down to fit a 30 minute time slot.
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Title: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Released: January 26, 2003
Type: TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.
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Stella Shorts 1998-2002
Title: Stella Shorts 1998-2002
Character: Michael
Released: December 20, 2002
Type: Movie
STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black. Though the three have made a living performing at comedy clubs, they are perhaps best known for their home-made short films. The STELLA SHORTS have garnered cult success because of their nonsensical plotlines, absurd dialogue, graphic sexual humor, sporatic violence, and sheer hilarity. This DVD showcases the trio's first twenty-three adventures, each one more bizarre and hysterical than the last. Highlights include: a game of whiffleball that goes terribly awry, an expedition to the South Pole (?) to meet Santa Claus, an edge-of-your-seat moustache-growing contest, a twisted "whodunit"-style murder mystery, and much, much more.
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Signs
Title: Signs
Character: Lionel Prichard
Released: August 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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Operation Midnight Climax
Title: Operation Midnight Climax
Character: Chip
Released: April 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Will Nitch is on a mission to achieve a transendental tantric sexual experience: a sustained orgasm. He begins to assemble a Secret Society of Women: women are, afterall, pivotal to helping a man to reach the cosmic blue lights. Will wants all the women for himself, and with the help of all the women in his life and his friend Chip, he plans a midnight tantric sex party; during which he hopes to climax to the point of reaching the mythical blue lights.
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Kissing Jessica Stein
Title: Kissing Jessica Stein
Character: Stephen
Released: March 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advertisement has been placed by 'lesbian-curious' Helen Cooper, a thirtysomething art gallerist.
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Wet Hot American Summer
Title: Wet Hot American Summer
Character: Coop / Alan Shemper
Released: July 27, 2001
Type: Movie
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
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Title: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Character: Plasma Boy (voice)
Released: October 2, 2000
Type: TV
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is an American animated science fiction/adventure/comedy series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series originally aired on UPN and ABC from October 2000 to January 2001 as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning programming block. It follows the adventures of space ranger Buzz Lightyear, who first appeared in the film Toy Story as an action figure and one of the film's protagonists.
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Title: Random Play
Released: July 24, 1999
Type: TV
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Chocolate For Breakfast
Title: Chocolate For Breakfast
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Four very different female roommates try to stick together while dealing with hectic daily schedules that living in New York City often conditions.
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Safe Men
Title: Safe Men
Character: Larry
Released: August 7, 1998
Type: Movie
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
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Title: Sex and the City
Character: Billy
Released: June 6, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. 
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Title: The Daily Show
Character: Self - Correspondent
Released: July 22, 1996
Type: TV
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Tick
Title: Tick
Character: Clifford
Released: January 15, 1996
Type: Movie
A brisk look into the lives of two bomb diffusers. John Hamburg's student film.
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Title: The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
Character: Various
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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Title: The State
Released: January 21, 1994
Type: TV
The State is a sketch-comedy television show combing bizarre characters and scenarios to present sketches that won the hearts of its target teenaged audience.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Allan Gee
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Artie Kramer
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Friday Night Videos
Released: July 29, 1983
Type: TV
Friday Night Videos is an American music video show broadcast on the NBC television network from July 29, 1983 to May 24, 2002, and was the network's attempt to capitalize on the emerging popularity of music videos as seen on MTV. Belinda Carlisle was the guest host for the first episode.
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MTV: The State, Skits and Stickers
Title: MTV: The State, Skits and Stickers
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
VHS only release featuring skits from MTV's The State.