David Steinberg
Born: 1942-08-09 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Steinberg (born August 9, 1942) is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the United States. He appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show more than 130 times (second only to Bob Hope in number of appearances) and served as guest host 12 times, the youngest person ever to guest-host. Steinberg directed several films and episodes of many of the most successful television situation comedies of the last twenty years, including Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and more than 35 episodes of Designing Women. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Steinberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- From Darkness to Light as Self (archive footage)
2022
- The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up ... (Executive Producer)
2018
2016
- The Last Laugh as Self
2015
- Being Canadian as Self
2013
2012
- RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars as Self - Special Guest
- Inside Comedy as Self - Host
2011
- Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Standup ... (Director)
2010
- Living in Your Car ... (Director)
2006
- Help Me Help You ... (Director)
- Sons & Daughters ... (Director)
- Carlos Mencia: No Strings Attached ... (Director)
2005
- Weeds ... (Director)
- The Aristocrats as Self
- Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg as Self - Host
2004
- One by One ... (Associate Producer)
2001
- What's Up, Peter Fuddy? ... (Director)
2000
- Curb Your Enthusiasm ... (Director)
- Even Stevens ... (Director)
- Big Sound
1999
- Switching Goals ... (Director)
1998
- Living in Captivity ... (Director)
1997
- Cats Don't Dance ... (Executive Producer)
- The Wrong Guy ... (Director)
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Ink ... (Director)
- Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy ... (Executive Producer)
1995
- The Parent 'Hood ... (Director)
1994
- Friends ... (Director)
1993
- Daddy Dearest ... (Director)
- It Had to Be You ... (Director)
1992
- Mad About You as Director
1991
- The One, the Only... Groucho as Narrator
- Kevin Pollak: Stop With The Kicking ... (Director)
1990
- Get a Life ... (Director)
- Evening Shade ... (Director)
- Good Grief ... (Producer)
- Dad's A Dog as Charles Dryden
1989
- Seinfeld ... (Director)
- I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood ... (Executive Producer)
1988
- Eisenhower and Lutz ... (Director)
- Annie McGuire ... (Director)
- Family Man ... (Director)
1987
- Duet ... (Director)
1986
- Designing Women ... (Director)
- Casey at the Bat ... (Director)
- The Tommy Chong Roast
1985
- The Golden Girls ... (Director)
- The Twilight Zone ... (Director)
- The Comedy Factory ... (Director)
- Tall Tales & Legends ... (Director)
1984
1983
- Going Berserk ... (Director)
1982
- Newhart ... (Director)
- Showbiz Goes to War as Self - Host
- Showbiz Ballyhoo as Self / Host & Narrator (voice)
1981
- Paternity ... (Director)
1980
- Fridays as Self
- Nothing Personal as Talk Show Host
1979
- Something Short of Paradise as Harris Sloane
1978
- The End as Marty Lieberman
1977
- The 2nd Annual HBO Young Comedians Show as Self - Host
1976
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Energy Crisis as Self - Comedian
1973
- The Jews of Winnipeg as Himself
- A Night Train to Terror as Paul
- The Bobby Darin Show
1970
- The Odd Couple as David Steinberg
- The Flip Wilson Show as Self
1969
- Fearless Frank as The Rat
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour as Self
- The Lost Man as Photographer
- The Music Scene
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host
1959
- The David Susskind Show as Self
1953
- The Oscars ... (Writer)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self