David Mirkin

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Full Name	David Mirkin
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Sep 18, 1955(1955-09-18)
Age	69
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Virgo

David Mirkin Biography

David Mirkin is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on September 18, 1955 in Pennsylvania, United States. Director of the popular show Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion with Director of the beloved comedy Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion with Mira Sorvino..

He was the director and creator of the TV show Get a Life with He was the creator and director of the TV series Get a Life with Chris Elliott..

Mirkin was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Northeast High School in 1973. His father was a computer engineer until his death in 1960. Mirkin’s older brother Gary worked as a television engineer for the Philadelphia NBC affiliate, KYW-TV, now a CBS owned-and-operated station. Throughout his childhood, Mirkin had an interest in film, and explored both writing and filming. Mirkin has described himself as a “nerd” and was often in trouble as a child because he was “in another world”. At high school, he felt the teaching was “too slow” and was allowed by his teachers to “skip class two to three days a week”.

Mirkin intended to pursue a career in electrical engineering, which he saw as a more stable employment opportunity than writing or film making. He took a course at Philadelphia’s Drexel University which offered six months of teaching followed by a six-month internship at the National Aeronautics Federal Experimental Center. Mirkin found the experience to be monotonous and unenjoyable and chose to abandon this career path. He decided that “making no money doing something I loved was going to be better than making a good living doing something I didn’t”, so took “an enormous chance on show business” and moved to Los Angeles. He attended film school at Loyola Marymount University, and graduated in 1978.

He was in a relationship actor He was in a relationship with actress Julie Brown..

David Mirkin Net Worth

David Mirkin is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Mirkin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a film scholar in Loyola Marymount.

He was executive producer for the sixth and fifth seasons of The Simpsons.

David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia and intended to become an electrical engineer, but abandoned this career path in favor of studying film at Loyola Marymount University. After graduating, he became a stand-up comedian, and then moved into television writing. He wrote for the sitcoms Three’s Company, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show and The Larry Sanders Show and served as showrunner on the series Newhart. After an unsuccessful attempt to remake the British series The Young Ones, Mirkin created Get a Life in 1990. The series starred comedian Chris Elliott and ran for two seasons, despite a lack of support from many Fox network executives, who disliked the show’s dark and surreal humor. He moved on to create the sketch show The Edge starring his then-partner, actress Julie Brown.

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Mirkin wanted to produce a surreal, Monty Python-esque, single-camera comedy series. He had a development deal with Newhart’ s producers MTM Enterprises and persuaded them to buy the rights to produce a pilot for an American adaptation of the British sitcom The Young Ones. The pilot was entitled Oh No, Not Them!, and featured Nigel Planer from the original series, as well as Jackie Earle Haley and Robert Bundy. Mirkin had wanted to cast comedian Chris Elliott in the pilot, but was prevented by Fox, which wanted Elliott for another show. Oh No, Not Them!, in Mirkin’s words, “tested through the floor” because it was too “surreal” and “sarcastic” and was not picked up. Mirkin and Elliott decided to develop a show together, along with Adam Resnick. In 1990, they created the sitcom Get a Life, which was conceived as a dark, surreal, psychotic version of the cartoon Dennis the Menace. The show stars Elliott as Chris Peterson, a 30-year-old newspaper delivery boy who still lives with his parents, and who is increasingly losing his grip on reality. Fox was lukewarm about the idea, but Mirkin convinced them to order a pilot by understating how dark the show would be. The network executives disliked the pilot after seeing an initial run-through, but Mirkin felt that this was because they “didn’t get” the show and opted not to change it. The executives enjoyed the finished pilot and it was aired. However, throughout the show’s run, the network’s initially negative attitude prevailed. According to Mirkin, many of the executives struggled to understand it and objected to the darkness and surrealism of the show’s humor, which included the frequent death of Elliott’s character, and regularly threatened to shut down production. After its first season, on the insistence of the network, Chris moves out of his parents’ garage, attempts to get additional jobs to his paper route, and attempts to get a girlfriend. However, Mirkin and Elliott refused to “[compromise on] the essential goofiness of the show”.

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Mirkin served as executive producer for the series, directed most of the episodes, wrote several of them, and oversaw the filming and production of them all, to ensure that they had the correct “tone”. The show’s production process was lengthy; Mirkin would rise at 5 am to film the show, write further episodes from 7 pm until 1 am , and then repeat that the following day. Unlike most single-camera shows, which have around six days to film, Mirkin had to film each episode in two days. He enjoyed doing it, but described it as “not a healthy way to live”. Due to the logistics of filming the show, especially its many sets and effects, Mirkin convinced Fox to not film it in front of a studio audience and use a laugh track instead. The show achieved steady ratings in its first season, finishing 92nd out of the 129 shows listed in the Nielsen ratings. However, for its second season, it was moved from 8:30 pm on Sunday to 9:30 pm on Saturday and lost the bulk of its audience; it was canceled after that second season finished in 1992. In a 1999 piece about the show’s DVD release, Tom Shales praised the show, concluding, “At its best, Get a Life achieved dizzying heights of surrealist farce. At its worst, it was at least amusingly idiotic existential slapstick. Get a Life is a television classic unlike any other. For one thing, most of the others are better. We’re not talking Playhouse 90 here, after all. But we are talking riotous nonsense, and that’s not to be sneezed at. It’s to be laughed at. Hard.” A strong cult following subsequently developed, and Mirkin noted that although the show was canceled “ultimately we got the audience I was hoping for and they are super dedicated and passionate to this day.”