Jeff Schimmel began his 40-year career as a Writer/Producer while attending law school in L.A. While studying for the bar exam, Jeff wrote and sold his original Cold War spy thriller, Archangel, to Phoenix Entertainment Group. Soon after, Jeff was selected by comedy legend Rodney Dangerfield and award-winning Writer/Director Harold Ramis to co-write the Warner Brothers animated film, Rover Dangerfield. This
led to a sports comedy screenplay assignment from Orion Pictures and 20th Century Fox, and Jeff’s first TV writing job as Story Editor on ABC’s top ten sitcom, Full House.
Next, Jeff wrote and produced The Schimmel Papers, a series of short films for Fox TV’s Sunday Comics, then went on to write for the groundbreaking, Emmy Award- winning sketch comedy series, In Living Color, wrote for the WB network’s first-ever sitcom, The Wayans Brothers, then served as Writer/Producer for Laughing With The
Presidents, NBC TV’s final comedy special starring Bob Hope, with appearances by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, actors Tom Selleck, Don Johnson, and many more.
In a major departure from comedy, Jeff sold a World War II drama and true-life story, To See You Again, to Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks Studios, and wrote the dark comedy screenplay, True Blue, for MGM/UA and Oscar-winner Martin Landau’s Pentagon Pictures. Jeff has written and produced for several one-hour and half-hour comedy specials airing on HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, and NBC, plus Comedy: Coast To Coast, a series of six one-hour, nationally syndicated stand-up specials that featured performances by A-listers like Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Mohr, Bobcat Goldthwait, and host David Steinberg. Jeff has provided rewrite and script consulting services on numerous TV and movie projects in genres ranging from the action-comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame to
the cutting-edge TV show Bargain Basement Late-Night for Twentieth Television. Jeff has even ventured into the game show world, contributing his joke writing skills to NBC’s Balderdash and as Writer/Producer on the nationally syndicated Funny You
Should Ask featuring Jeff Ross, Jon Lovitz, Tom Arnold, Natasha Leggero, Whitney Cummings, Billy Gardell, Jamie Kennedy, Louis Anderson, Howie Mandel, etc. To date, Jeff has written and/or produced nearly 700 television episodes. In the mid-2000s, Jeff spent three seasons as Supervising Producer/Writer on Mind of Mencia, Comedy Central’s controversial, but highly-rated, sketch series, was Supervising Producer on No Strings Attached, a one-hour Comedy Central special
that sold over 1,000,000 copies on DVD
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