| David Mandel |
David Mandel (born [1]) is a writer, actor, director, and producer. He was an executive producer and showrunner of Veep, and also an executive producer and director of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld. He is also a comedian,[2] and one of the producer-directors of the teen-comedy EuroTrip. He was a writer for Seinfeld during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons and also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film adaptation of The Cat in the Hat. He is one of the creators of , and he was a writer for Saturday Night Live. He had a brief stint as a host of Dave and Steve's Video Game Explosion, a comedy video game review show that aired late nights on TBS as part of the Burly Bear Network. The show only lasted a few episodes before the entire block was canceled.
Mandel is also one of the authors of Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie, a comprehensive collection of Star Wars artwork by Ralph McQuarrie, published in 2016 by Abrams Books.[3]
Since October 2020, Mandel has hosted the podcast The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of detailing movie props and collectables with writer Ryan Condel.
He is Jewish.[4]
| Title | Year | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | |||
| 1992–1995 | Saturday Night Live | ||||
| 1995–1998 | Seinfeld | ||||
| 2000–2002 | |||||
| 2003 | The Cat in the Hat | ||||
| 2004 | EuroTrip | Uncredited co-director | |||
| 2005–2011 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | ||||
| 2012 | The Dictator | ||||
| 2012 | The Simpsons | ||||
| 2013 | Clear History | ||||
| 2015 | The Comedians | ||||
| 2016–2019 | Veep | ||||
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | ||||
Mandel wrote the Seinfeld episode "The Bizarro Jerry", and on the commentary track to the DVD, has stated that this was his favorite Seinfeld of the episodes he wrote.