| 词条 | Elliott Kalan |
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Early lifeKalan grew up in Millburn, New Jersey and graduated from Millburn High School as part of the class of 1999.[2] He attended the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he majored in screenwriting at the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing. Comedy careerElliott Kalan began his career at The Daily Show as a production assistant in 2003 before moving up to producer, staff writer, and ultimately head writer.[3] Kalan was co-founder of comedy group The Hypocrites with fellow television writer Brock Mahan.[4] He also hosted a live talk and variety stage show, The Primetime Kalan (originally The Midnight Kalan and later The New Kalan Show). The show was created by Kalan, producer Erik Marcisak, and director Joe Guercio, and written and performed by Kalan, Marcisak, and Dan McCoy. Many of Kalan's Daily Show co-workers appeared on the show, including Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, and Rob Corddry.[5] Kalan occasionally appears in bit parts on The Daily Show and has provided voice-over narration for "The Decider" comic-book segments. He was instrumental in putting together the "gay cowboy" montage (a comedic series of clips from classic westerns, illustrating that the gay content in Brokeback Mountain is nothing new), when Jon Stewart hosted the 78th Academy Awards. From 2006 to 2009, Kalan wrote a weekly column for the free morning daily Metro. Following a column he wrote in the August 3, 2007 issue of the Metro, Kalan was fired for writing a self-deprecating joke about the increasing obsolescence of the newspaper industry. This was followed by a brief article in New York Magazine on August 20, 2007 about the incident,[6] which was heavily publicized on internet blogs including Media Bistro, Huffington Post, and Gawker. Many blog postings about the incident imply that the Metro violated basic principles of journalism and freedom of expression in firing Kalan. Perhaps as a result of this publicity, he was later re-hired. In 2009, he left the Metro of his own accord, saying "Why leave now? It just feels like the right time for me to move on creatively. Or I’m going undercover to deliver Osama bin Laden to justice. Pick whichever reason sounds cooler." Kalan also performs as a stand-up comic, and in 2013 performed several USO shows in Afghanistan along with John Oliver, Rory Albanese, and Adam Lowitt.[7] In August 2015 Kalan announced that he had left his position as head writer for The Daily Show.[8] In May 2016, it was announced he was joining the writing staff of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival as head writer.[9] On April 14, 2017, Kalan appeared on Episode 1103 of the Netflix production of Mystery Science Theater 3000 along with series creator Joel Hodgson. The two portrayed characters in a "host segment" of that episode's source movie, The Time Travelers. PodcastingAlong with comedians Dan McCoy and Stuart Wellington, Kalan co-hosts The Flop House podcast, on which the hosts discuss and mock major movies that were either commercial or critical "flops", such as Gamer and All About Steve. One supplemental episode of the Flop House, in which Kalan improvised a rapid-fire pitch for a film based on the comic Ziggy became a minor viral Internet success after being posted on Gawker.[10] Dan McCoy and Kalan have also been published in comedy magazine Whim Quarterly and film zine I Love Bad Movies. Kalan is also the co-host of the Audible podcast Presidents Are People Too!, along with American historian Alexis Coe. The podcast examines the life and times of the Presidents of the United States.[11] Film criticismFrom early 2009 until April 2012, Kalan hosted the screening series Closely Watched Films[12] at 92YTribeca. These events commonly featured the screening of a rare older film followed by a discussion between Kalan and a celebrity guest who had not previously seen the film. Comic book writingKalan is a comic book writer; among other titles, he has written the six-issue superhero limited series Spider-Man and the X-Men. An exchange of dialogue between the characters Spider-Man and Sauron from the series became a meme: Spider-Man: “You can rewrite DNA on the fly, and you're using it to turn people into dinosaurs? But with tech like that, you could cure cancer!” Sauron: “But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.” AccoladesFor his writing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Kalan has won four Primetime Emmy Awards (shared with the rest of the writing staff of the Daily Show).[13] Personal lifeKalan lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife Danielle and their sons. References1. ^2016 HARVEY AWARDS Nominees Announced newsarama.com accessed 2016-07-05 2. ^Staff. "Danielle Friedman to wed Elliott Kalan, a Millburn High School graduate", Independent Press, November 12, 2009. Accessed March 24, 2015. "The future groom is a graduate of Millburn High School, Class of 1999, and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts." 3. ^{{cite news|last=Wright|first=Megh|title='The Daily Show' Promotes Elliott Kalan to Head Writer|url=http://splitsider.com/2014/01/the-daily-show-promotes-elliott-kalan-to-head-writer/|accessdate=28 January 2014|newspaper=Splitsider|date=28 January 2014}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=The Hypocrites|url=http://www.brockandelliott.com/|accessdate=28 January 2014}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Notes from The Primetime Kalan 9.9.5|url=http://www.theapiary.org/archives/2005/09/recap_the_prime.html|work=The Apiary|accessdate=28 January 2014}} 6. ^{{cite news|last=Rosenblum|first=Emma|title='Metro' Columnist Elliott Kalan Fired for Declaring Newspapers Dead|url=http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/35820/|accessdate=28 January 2014|newspaper=New York Magazine|date=13 August 2007}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=John Oliver Leads 'The Daily Show' Comedians on Overseas USO Tour |url=http://www.uso.org/the-daily-show-john-oliver-uso-tour-2013-photos/ |work=USO |accessdate=28 January 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031230338/http://www.uso.org/the-daily-show-john-oliver-uso-tour-2013-photos/ |archivedate=31 October 2013 |df= }} 8. ^http://www.flophousepodcast.com/2015/08/episode-185-grace-of-monaco/ 9. ^{{cite web|last1=Hodgson|first1=Joel|title=Update 31: Meet our New Head Writer… Elliott Kalan! · Bring Back MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k/posts/1581136|website=Kickstarter|accessdate=20 May 2016}} 10. ^{{cite web|title=The Astoundingly Good Case For Making A Ziggy Movie |url=http://gawker.com/381641/the-astoundingly-good-case-for-making-a-ziggy-movie |work=Gawker |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202094347/http://gawker.com/381641/the-astoundingly-good-case-for-making-a-ziggy-movie |archivedate=2014-02-02 |df= }} 11. ^Audible Channels audible.com 12. ^{{cite web|last=Ott|first=John|title=Closely Watching Million Dollar Legs|url=http://makingthemovie.info/2010/06/closely-watching-million-dollar-legs.html|work=Making the Movie|accessdate=28 January 2014}} 13. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1308394/awards?ref_=nm_awd Elliott Kalan Awards] imdb.com External links
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