David Wain was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio.He met the other members of the comedy troupe The State while a film student at NYU, where he graduated from in 1991.As part of The State, he co-created and co-starred on their self-titled MTV sketch comedy show in the mid 90’s. He then continued to work with his State partners on many other projects, beginning with Stella (2005), a nightclub show which then became a series of web shorts and a Comedy Central Series.His first film as co-writer and director was the indie summer camp comedy Wet Hot American Summer (2001), which was then turned into two mini-series on Netflix.He has subsequently co-written and directed a total of five feature films, the most successful being Role Models (2008).His most recent feature, A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018), is a biopic about Doug Kenney, the founder of National Lampoon.He is executive producer of the Emmy award winning series Childrens Hospital (2008) as well as its spin-offs Newsreaders (2013) and Medical Police (2020).He’s also worked consistently over the years as an actor, including the recurring role of Rabbi Jewy McJewJew on “Childrens Hospital””, a version of himself in his semi-autobiographical web series Wainy Days (2007), and as “”Yaron”” in the Netflix series Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015).”
David Wain
Movies
Risk
Reuben Feffer thinks he’s found the love of his life but on his honeymoon he discovers her cheating on him with a scuba instructor. Reuben travels back home to get his life on track. On a night out with best pal, Sandy Lyle, Reuben discovers an old school friend, Polly…
Fun Facts
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Quotes
The Ten Commandments have been a cornerstone of our society for nearly one hundred years. If you've ever taken a Sunday off, or if you've ever stopped yourself from murdering someone, then you yourself have been following the Ten Commandments without even knowing it.
At MTV, the average age at the time of everybody there was like 24. So anyway, they were like, "You don't know what you're talking about