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Rob Cohen
Born
Robert Howard Cohen

Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation(s)Writer, director
Years active1990–present
SpouseJill Leiderman

Robert Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer and director.

Cohen's writing career has covered many TV formats, from sketch to multi-camera, single-camera and animation. He has also written for many high-profile awards shows and specials, including multiple times for the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards.

Early life

Cohen was born to a Jewish family in Calgary, Alberta, where he attended the Calgary Hebrew School.

Career

Cohen has written for The Simpsons, The Wonder Years, The Ben Stiller Show, and The Big Bang Theory.

He won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on The Ben Stiller Show. He and frequent collaborator Dana Gould co-created the 1998 cult show Super Adventure Team for MTV. His career as a TV comedy writer has covered every format, from multi-camera and single-camera, to sketch and animation. Robert has also written for and produced on multiple Emmy Award, Academy Award and MTV Movie Award shows.

Cohen has directed and won awards for commercial campaigns for Ziploc, Kraft, HBO, Ford and many others. Some of the TV shows he has directed are "Lady Dynamite", "Maron", "Speechless", "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return", "Stan Against Evil", and others.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition.

The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years is an American coming-of-age comedy/drama television series created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black. It ran on ABC from January 31, 1988, until May 12, 1993. The series premiered immediately after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII. The series stars Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, a teenager growing up in a suburban middle class family in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It co-stars Dan Lauria as his father Jack, Alley Mills as his mother Norma, Jason Hervey as his brother Wayne, Olivia d'Abo as his sister Karen, Josh Saviano as his best friend Paul Pfeiffer, and Danica McKellar as his girlfriend Winnie Cooper, with narration by Daniel Stern as an adult version of Kevin.

The Ben Stiller Show

The Ben Stiller Show

The Ben Stiller Show is an American sketch comedy series that aired on MTV from 1990 to 1991, and then 12 episodes on Fox from September 27, 1992, to January 17, 1993, with a 13th episode of the Fox version airing on 1995 on Comedy Central. The Fox program starred Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Character actor John F. O'Donohue also appeared in every episode.

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro. The three of them also served as head writers. It premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007, and concluded on May 16, 2019, having broadcast 279 episodes over 12 seasons.

Dana Gould

Dana Gould

Dana Gould (; is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and voice artist who has been featured on HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central. He voiced Hi Larious in the TV series Father of the Pride and the titular character in the Gex franchise.

Super Adventure Team

Super Adventure Team

Super Adventure Team is an American comedy series shown on the cable television network MTV in 1998. The show is a superhero satire series using puppetry.

Personal life

Cohen is married to Jimmy Kimmel Live! producer Jill Leiderman.[1] Upon their engagement, he learned that he had been legally married to his ex-girlfriend, actress Janeane Garofalo, for the last twenty years, after what they had believed to have been a "joke wedding" in Las Vegas in 1991. They had both thought the marriage was not binding unless it had been filed at a local courthouse. The union was dissolved in 2012.[2]

Awards

Year Nominee / work Award Result
1993 The Ben Stiller Show Emmys "Outstanding individual achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program" Won[3]
2004 In recognition of extraordinary courage shown in... efforts to advance animation organizing Robert Metzler Award Won[4]
2016 Being Canadian Writers Guild of America Award "Best Documentary Screenplay" Nominated
2016 Best Director - Short Form Film 2016 Webby Award Won
2017 "Primetime Emmy Awards" Writers Guild of America Award "Best Writing for a Variety Special" Nominated


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The Ben Stiller Show

The Ben Stiller Show

The Ben Stiller Show is an American sketch comedy series that aired on MTV from 1990 to 1991, and then 12 episodes on Fox from September 27, 1992, to January 17, 1993, with a 13th episode of the Fox version airing on 1995 on Comedy Central. The Fox program starred Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Character actor John F. O'Donohue also appeared in every episode.

Being Canadian

Being Canadian

Being Canadian is a 2015 Canadian-US documentary comedy film that was written and directed by Robert Cohen and produced by The Sibs, in association with Movie Central and The Movie Network. The film is an examination of Canadian identity and is structured around a cross-country road trip. Cohen interviews Canadian celebrities, most of whom are comedians.

Primetime Emmy Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

The Primetime Emmy Awards, or Primetime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), the Primetime Emmys are presented in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. The award categories are divided into three classes: the regular Primetime Emmy Awards, the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to honor technical and other similar behind-the-scenes achievements, and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for recognizing significant contributions to the engineering and technological aspects of television. First given out in 1949, the award was originally referred to as simply the "Emmy Award" until the International Emmy Award and the Daytime Emmy Award were created in the early 1970s to expand the Emmy to other sectors of the television industry.

Source: "Robert Cohen (writer)", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 22nd), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cohen_(writer).

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References
  1. ^ "Queen of the Night: Jill Leiderman". Marie Claire. 2013-08-08. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
  2. ^ Phillips Erb, Kelly (November 14, 2012). "Janeane Garofalo Finds Out She's Been Married... for 20 Years". Forbes. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
  3. ^ "THE BEN STILLER SHOW". emmys.com. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
  4. ^ "THE ROBERT MELTZER AWARD". wga.org. Retrieved 2013-01-10.
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