| Dan Guterman | |
| Occupation: | Television writer |
| Birth Place: | Brazil |
| Period: | 1999–present |
| Genre: | Humor |
Dan Guterman (born February 23, 1978) is a Brazilian-born television writer and producer who has lived in Canada and the United States. He was a writer for the satirical website The Onion between 1999 and 2010. He has also worked on The Colbert Report, Community, and Rick and Morty. Guterman has won two Emmy Awards: one in 2013 for his work on The Colbert Report[1] and one in 2018 for his work on season three of Rick and Morty.[2] He also won an Annie Award in 2018 for co-writing the Rick and Morty episode "The Ricklantis Mixup".[3]
Born in Brazil on February 23, 1978, Guterman became interested in comedy after watching Saturday Night Live and The Kids in the Hall when he moved to Montreal at age 7—shows that, he said, "genuinely frightened me", as comedy in Brazil was mostly lighthearted in tone.[4]
Having become a writer himself, Guterman later described his profession in writing comedy by saying, "You’re doing this very creative, often very personal thing, but you’re expected to produce it in this totally noncreative way. My job is to churn out comedy, which is this intangible and temperamental thing, but at the rate and consistency of an assembly-line worker."[5] After establishing his television writing presence as a writer on The Colbert Report and receiving an Emmy, Guterman began work with Dan Harmon on Community for its fifth season. This relationship continued, and in 2015 Guterman went on to write for both the sixth and second seasons of Community and Rick and Morty, respectively. He then continued work writing for Rick and Morty
In 2018, Guterman was brought in as a consultant to work on Inside Job, an animated show for Netflix.[7]
Guterman has also worked on At Home With Amy Sedaris and Another Period, as well as various films.[8]
In addition to his television writing career, Guterman has penned short pieces of writing called "New Optical Illusions" for The New Yorker.[9]