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David Steinberg

David Steinberg CM is a Canadian comedian, actor, writer, director, and author. At the height of his popularity, during the late 1960s and mid 1970s, he was one of the best-known comics in the United States. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 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.

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Director

Episode Designing Women
Sex, Lies and Bad Hair Days
1993
Episode Designing Women
Screaming Passages
1992
Episode Mad About You
Till Death Do Us Part
1994
Episode Newhart
Shoe Business Is My Life
1989
Movie Paternity 1981
Episode Mad About You
When I'm Sixty-Four
1994
Episode Mad About You
The Weed
1996
Episode The Fanelli Boys
Pursued
1990
Episode Mad About You
Back to Work
1998
Episode Mad About You
Legacy
1994
Episode Designing Women
Shovel Off to Buffalo
1993
Episode Designing Women
Julia and Rusty, Sittin' in a Tree
1991
Episode Mad About You
The Caper
1998
Episode Mad About You
Pandora's Box
1994
Episode Mad About You
The Award
1996
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Shrimp Incident
2001
Episode Sons & Daughters (2006)
Family Finance
2006
Episode Designing Women
It's Not So Easy Being Green
1993
Episode Seinfeld
The Tape
1991
Episode Designing Women
All About Odes to Atlanta
1992
Episode Mad About You
New Sleep-Walking PLUS
1995
Episode Mad About You
Paul Slips in the Shower
1998
Episode Friends
The One with Phoebe's Uterus
1998
Episode Mad About You
The Ride Home
1994
Episode Evening Shade
Mr. Mom
1990
Episode Tall Tales and Legends
Casey at The Bat
1986
Episode Mad About You
The Finale (1)
1996
Episode Mad About You
The Parking Space
1995
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
Ted and Mary
2000
Episode Designing Women
Love Letters
1992
Episode Designing Women
Julia and Mary Jo Get Stuck Under a Bed
1991
Episode Mad About You
Giblets for Murray
1994
Episode Mad About You
The Finale (2)
1996
Episode Mad About You
There's a Puma in the Kitchen
1998
Episode Designing Women
The Woman Who Came to Sugarbakers
1993
Episode Designing Women
A Toe in the Water
1991
Movie Norm MacDonald: Me Doing Standup 2011
Episode The Twilight Zone (1985)
The Uncle Devil Show
1985
Episode The Parent 'Hood
Byte Me
1995
Episode Designing Women
I Enjoy Being a Girl
1992
Episode Mad About You
Weekend in L.A.
1998
Episode Designing Women
Real, Scary Men
1991
Episode Seinfeld
The Truth
1991
Episode Mad About You
The Finale (3)
1996
Episode Designing Women
The Lying Game
1993
Episode Mad About You
Once More With Feeling
1994
Episode Designing Women
Dwayne's World
1991
Episode Mad About You
Yoko Said
1995
Episode Newhart
The Gleeless Club
1988
Episode Mad About You
An Angel for Murray
1995
Episode Mad About You
Virtual Reality II
1999
Episode The Parent 'Hood
I'm O'Tay, You're O-Tay
1996
Episode Designing Women
Gone With the Whim (1)
1993
Episode Mad About You
The Couple
1995
Episode Mad About You
Millennium Bug
1999
Episode The Parent 'Hood
Don't Be Alarmed
1995
Episode Designing Women
Trial and Error
1992
Episode Newhart
Good-Bye and Good Riddance, Mr. Chips
1987
Episode Designing Women
New Year's Daze
1987
Episode Mad About You
The City
1994
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
Officer Krupke
2009
Episode Mad About You
New Year's Eve
1995
Episode Designing Women
Marriage Most Foul
1991
Episode Designing Women
Tales Out of School
1991
Episode Duet
Prelude
1987
Episode Designing Women
Gone With the Whim (2)
1993
Episode Help Me Help You
Perseverence
2006
Episode Eisenhower & Lutz
Bud, Junior, Junior (1)
1988
Episode Mad About You
Ovulation Day
1996
Episode Evening Shade
Wood and Ava and Gil and Madeline
1991
Episode Mad About You
Outbreak
1996
Episode Mad About You
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
1996
Episode Mad About You
Get Back
1996
Episode Duet
Overture
1987
Episode Newhart
Town Without Pity
1988
Episode Mad About You
Mad About You (1)
1995
Episode Mad About You
Chicken Man
1997
Episode Evening Shade
Vote Early and Vote Often
1991
Episode Designing Women
A Little Night Music
1992
Episode Designing Women
Too Dumb to Date
1993
Movie Switching Goals 1999
Episode Mad About You
The Recital
1997
Episode Mad About You
The Handyman
1997
Episode Newhart
Ramblin' Michael Harris
1989
Episode Mad About You
Astrology
1997
Episode Inside Comedy
Larry David
2012
Episode Mad About You
Mad About You (2)
1995
Episode Mad About You
The Penis
1997
Episode Mad About You
Citizen Buchman
1997
Episode It Had to Be You
Long Date's Journey Into Night
1993
Episode Evening Shade
Into the Woods
1991
Episode It Had to Be You
Let's Spend Termite Together
1993
Episode Mad About You
On the Road
1997
Episode Designing Women
The Odyssey
1993
Episode It Had to Be You
All About Dave
1993
Episode Evening Shade
Gambler Anonymous
1991
Episode Living in Captivity
Put on a Happy Face
1998
Episode Designing Women
Of Human Bondage
1992
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Divorce
2011
Episode Get a Life
The Sitting
1990
Episode Even Stevens
A Weak First Week
2001
Episode Evening Shade
I Am Wood, Hear Me Roar
1991
Episode Family Man (1988)
A Night Out
1988
Episode Designing Women
Oh Dog, Poor Dog
1993
Episode Living in Captivity
Boogie Heights
1970
Episode Inside Comedy
Louis C.K./Bob Newhart
2013
Episode Newhart
I Like You, Butt...
1989
Episode Designing Women
Sex and the Single Woman
1992
Episode Mad About You
Storms We Cannot Weather
1994
Episode Mad About You
The Glue People
1996
Episode The Parent 'Hood
I Never Danced for My Mother
1996
Episode Family Man (1988)
Above the Fruited Plain
1988
Episode Evening Shade
Sadie Hawkins Dance
1990
Episode Newhart
The Little Match Girl
1989
Episode Ink
Logan's Run
1997
Episode Designing Women
Mamed
1992
Episode Designing Women
Wedding Redux
1993
Episode Designing Women
Mary Jo vs. the Terminator
1992
Episode Designing Women
The Strange Case of Clarence and Anita
1991
Episode Weeds
The Whole Blah Damn Thing
2008
Episode Inside Comedy
Judd Apatow/Tina Fey
2013
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Rat Dog
2007
Episode Mad About You
Uncle Phil and the Coupons
1997
Movie Carlos Mencia: No Strings Attached 2006
Episode Mad About You
The Sample
1996
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Smoking Jacket
2005
Episode The Comeback
Valerie Gets a Magazine Cover
2005
Episode Daddy Dearest
Private Lives
1993
Episode Newhart
Buy, Buy Blues
1989
Episode Newhart
Presence of Malice
1988
Episode Carlos Mencia
No Strings Attached
2006
Episode Family Man (1988)
Preferred List
1988
Episode Designing Women
Nude Julia, New York Morning
1993
Episode Newhart
Beauty and the Pest
1990
Episode The Golden Girls
Big Daddy's Little Lady
1986
Episode Designing Women
On the Road Again
1992
Episode The Comeback
Valerie Shines Under Stress
2005
Episode Curb Your Enthusiasm
Mary, Joseph and Larry
2002
Episode Sons & Daughters (2006)
BBQ Therapy
2006
Episode Designing Women
Just Say Doe
1991
Movie What's Up, Peter Fuddy? 2001
Episode Mad About You
The Procedure
1996
Episode Designing Women
A Scene From a Mall
1992
Episode Mad About You
Escape from New York
1994
Episode Mad About You
Breastfeeding
1998
Episode The Parent 'Hood
Reconcilable Differences
1996
Movie Going Berserk 1983
Episode Mad About You
Home
1994
Movie The Wrong Guy 1997

Writer

Movie All Dogs Go to Heaven 1989
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Garry Shandling
2007
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Ray Romano
2007
Episode Designing Women
Gone With the Whim (1)
1993
Episode Designing Women
Gone With the Whim (2)
1993
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Mike Meyers
2005
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Larry David
2005
Episode Inside Comedy
Louis C.K./Bob Newhart
2013
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Bob Newhart
2005
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Martin Short
2006
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Jon Lovitz
2006
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
George Lopez
2006
Episode Inside Comedy
Judd Apatow/Tina Fey
2013
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Jerry Seinfeld
2007
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Robin Williams
2007
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Roseanne
2007
Episode Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg
Jon Stewart
2007
Movie Going Berserk 1983

Host

Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
The Second Annual HBO Young Comedians Show
1977

Producer

Movie Home on the Range 2004
Movie An Evening with Sammy Davis, Jr. & Jerry Lewis 1988
Movie Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays 2014
Movie Billy Crystal: Midnight Train to Moscow 1989
Movie Paula Poundstone: Cats, Cops and Stuff 1990
Movie Jim Norton: Monster Rain 2007
Movie Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind 2018
Movie Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy 1996
Movie I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood 1989
Movie Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started 1986

Guest Star

Episode Today
April 4, 2014
2014
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Daughter of Eugene McCarthy, Vidal Sassoon, David Steinberg, 1910 Fruit Gum Company, Ashley Montagu
1968
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, The Judds
1989
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
David Steinberg, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
1971
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Gary Morris
1991
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
An Evening of Sit Down with Robin Williams and David Steinberg
2012
Episode Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Selena Gomez, David Steinberg, Pinback
2013
Episode Late Night With David Letterman
Show #1247 (David Steinberg, Bill Lee)
1990
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Susie Essman, Jake Johannsen
1989
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
Interview with (the other) David Steinberg, Comedian/Director
2019
Episode Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
David Beckham, David Steinberg, Busta Rhymes
2014
Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #0037
1993
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Linda Hopkins
1982
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Denise Wells, David Steinberg
1990
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Andrea Marcovicci
1988
Episode The Dean Martin Show
Episode #62
1967
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Mary Frann, Emmanuel Lewis
1983
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Jill Ireland, The 'Jim' Twins
1979
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Kenneth Branagh, Harper Brothers
1991
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Itzhak Perlman, Joan Embery
1977
Episode TV Guide Specials
25 Things You Didn't Know About Seinfeld
1970
Episode The Smothers Brothers Show (1975)
Episode 3
1975
Episode The Sonny & Cher Show
Show 33 - Tina Turner, David Steinberg
1977
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Joan Embery, David Steinberg, Joseph Wambaugh
1973
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Teresa Ganzel, David Steinberg
1989
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Scarlett Johansson, David Steinberg, Blur
2015
Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
Robin Williams—TV's Best Guest
2019
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Jann Karam, Don Yesso
1987
Episode The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple Meet Their Host
1971
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
Garry Shandling (guest host), Joan Embery, David Steinberg, Catherine O'Hara, Linda Hopkins
1988
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Drew Carey, Regis Philbin
1992
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Andy Samberg; David Steinberg; Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite
2013
Episode The Equalizer
In the Money
1987
Episode The Bobby Darin Show
Helen Reddy / David Steinberg
1973
Episode The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson
David Steinberg, Jim Fowler
1981