Steven Wright's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Steven The Bob Monkhouse Show (UK) Steven Wright The Downer Channel Walter Trying Times Dwight Harper

Main Movie Roles 2005 - The Aristocrats 2004 - Coffee and Cigarettes 2000 - Loser 1999 - The Muse 1998 - Babe: Pig in the City 1998 - Half Baked 1995 - Canadian Bacon 1994 - Speechless 1994 - Natural Born Killers 1994 - Mixed Nuts 1994 - The Swan Princess 1993 - So I Married an Axe Murderer 1992 - Reservoir Dogs 1988 - The Appointments Of Dennis Jennings 1985 - Desperately Seeking Susan

BIOGRAPHY:

Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American comedian, actor and writer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, and one-liners with contrived situations.
Early life and career Wright was born in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts,[3][4] one of four children of Lucille “Dolly” (née Lomano) and Alexander K. Wright.[3][5][6] He was raised Catholic.[7] His mother was Italian American and his father was of Scottish descent.[8] Wright's father, an electronics technician who "tested a lot of stuff for the Apollo space program," became a truck driver after that program ended.[3]
Wright spent two years obtaining an associate's degree from Middlesex Community College in Bedford, Massachusetts, before enrolling at Emerson College.[9] He graduated from the latter in 1978[9] and began performing stand-up comedy in 1979[3][10] at the Boston comedy club the Comedy Connection.[3][9] He cites George Carlin and Woody Allen among his influences.[11]
In 1982 Peter Lassally, executive producer of The Tonight Show, noticed Wright performing on a bill with other local comics at the comedy club Ding Ho,[12] in Cambridge's Inman Square,[13] a venue Wright described as "half Chinese restaurant and half comedy club. It was a pretty weird place".


TRIVIA:

• Grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts, the same town as Amy Poehler from Saturday Night Live and Upright Citizens Brigade and David Lovering of the Pixies.
• Attended Emerson College (Boston, Massachusetts) with 'Denis Leary' (qv)
• Although born in New York, he is a serious Boston Red Sox baseball fan.