Michael Showalter
Michael English Showalter (born June 17, 1970; Princeton) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is one third of the sketch comedy trio Stella. Showalter first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's The State, which aired from 1993 to 1995. He co-wrote (with David Wain) and starred in Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and he wrote, directed, and starred in The Baxter (2005), with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux and Elizabeth Banks. Both of these movies featured many of his co-stars from The State, and so do several of his other projects.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 7.07 |
Birthday | 1970-06-17 |
Place of Birth | Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Also Known As | 마이클 쇼월터, |
2001
Wet Hot American Summer
6.274/791
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfi...
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Wet Hot American Summer
2002
Signs
6.7/5607
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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Signs
2005
The Baxter
6.1/45
A man with a "doormat" personality tries standing up for himself for a change in this comedy. Mild mannered tax accountant Elliot Sherman is what he c...
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The Baxter
1998
Safe Men
5.6/51
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the loca...
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Safe Men
2002
Operation Midnight Climax
2/2
Will Nitch is on a mission to achieve a transendental tantric sexual experience: a sustained orgasm. He begins to assemble a Secret Society of Women:...
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Operation Midnight Climax
2009
Stella: Live in Boston
5.2/4
The comedy trio performs live in Boston.
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Stella: Live in Boston
1998
Chocolate For Breakfast
0/0
Four very different female roommates try to stick together while dealing with hectic daily schedules that living in New York City often conditions.
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Chocolate For Breakfast
2014
Two Night Stand
6.416/1829
After an extremely regrettable one night stand, two strangers wake up to find themselves snowed in after sleeping through a blizzard that put all of M...
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Two Night Stand
2004
Hair High
6.6/30
Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to th...
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Hair High
2015
Misery Loves Comedy
6.2/38
Do you have to be miserable to be funny? More than sixty comedians—including stand-ups, writers, actors, and directors from the US, Canada, and abroad...
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Misery Loves Comedy
2006
Griffin & Phoenix
7/158
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
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Griffin & Phoenix
2015
Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
6.4/46
Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage offers a glimpse into the comic minds behind a "Wet Hot" summer-camp cult hit featuring many future stars.
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Hurricane of Fun: The Making of Wet Hot
2012
Wanderlust
5.502/1238
Rattled by sudden unemployment, a Manhattan couple surveys alternative living options, ultimately deciding to experiment with living on a rural commun...
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Wanderlust
2007
The Ten
4.859/190
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
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The Ten
2016
Giles Vanderhoot
0/0
No one is better at portraying rehabilitationamalist Giles Vanderhoot than Vanderhoot himself.
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Giles Vanderhoot
1996
Tick
7.5/2
A brisk look into the lives of two bomb diffusers. John Hamburg's student film.
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Tick
2007
Reno 911!: Miami
5.8/241
A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring...
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Reno 911!: Miami
2008
Birthday
0/0
"Birthday" is a new short film from the unique three-man comedy group STELLA:
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Birthday
MTV: The State, Skits and Stickers
0/0
VHS only release featuring skits from MTV's The State.
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MTV: The State, Skits and Stickers
2019
It Started As a Joke
4.8/3
This documentary chronicles the decade-long run of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival – including a final farewell show. The film celebrates Eugene’s u...
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It Started As a Joke
2002
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
3/2
STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black....
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Stella Shorts 1998-2002
1995
The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
4/2
Comedy troupe The State hosts a Halloween special on CBS.
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The State's 43rd Annual All-Star Halloween Special
2002
Kissing Jessica Stein
6.046/216
Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's pers...
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