Jim Downey (comedian)

Jim Downey
BornJames Woodward Downey
1952 (age 71–72)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Television writer
  • producer
  • actor
Alma materHarvard University
Period1976–present
GenreComedy
Subject
  • Satire
  • political humor

James Woodward Downey (born 1952)[1][2] 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.[3] SNL creator Lorne Michaels called Downey the "best political humorist alive".[4]

  1. ^ Clark, Andrew. "Jim Downey". Faculty of Media & Creative Arts (Podcast). Humber College. Event occurs at 0:10. Retrieved November 5, 2023. Born in 1952 in Berkeley, California, Jim Downey...
  2. ^ Sacks, Mike (June 24, 2014). "SNL's James Downey on Working with Norm Macdonald and Getting Fired for Making Fun of OJ Simpson". Splitsider. Archived from the original on December 25, 2015. Retrieved June 25, 2014. ...no writer has been associated with the show longer—or had more of a lasting impact—than James Woodward Downey.
  3. ^ Sacks, Mike (2014). Poking a Dead Frog. New York: Penguin Books. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-1-101-61327-6.
  4. ^ Sacks, Mike (June 24, 2014). "'SNL's James Downey on Working with Norm Macdonald and Getting Fired for Making Fun of OJ Simpson". Vulture. Retrieved November 17, 2022. Called by Lorne Michaels the best political humorist alive...