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Jim Downey
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American actor and comedian
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Brainstorms and Mindfarts
- President Trump
- Re>wired
- Indian Take-away
- Zeguts ridiculous restaurants
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Film & TV
Berkeley, California, USA
James Woodward Downey (born 1952) is an American comedy writer, producer and actor. Downey wrote for over 30 seasons of Saturday Night Live, making him the longest tenured writer in the show's history. SNL creator Lorne Michaels called Downey the "best political humorist alive" while Conan O'Brien said he is "the great comedy writer that we all revere."
Known for
- Lorne — Self / Irwin Segelstein (voice)2026
- Happy Gilmore 2 — Championship Tour Starter2025
- One Battle After Another — Sandy Irvine2025
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert — Self2025
- Downey Wrote That — Self2025
- The Chair Company — Douglas2025
- SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night — Self2025
- White House Plumbers — Spencer Oliver2023
- Live from New York! — Self2015
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest2014
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 15
- Total plays
- 20
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Berkeley
- Occupation
- comedian
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Primetime Emmy Award
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- date of birth
- 1952-10-06
- writing language
- English language
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