Adam Resnick

Adam Resnick is an American comedy writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work writing for Late Night with David Letterman.

He co-created and wrote for Get a Life with Chris Elliott. Resnick also wrote and was co-executive producer of a season of The Larry Sanders Show for HBO. He created and wrote The High Life (1996), also for HBO. Also for television, he has written for Saturday Night Live, and is a writer and consulting producer on Divorce.

Resnick has also written for film. With its star, Chris Elliott, Resnick created the story for the 1994 motion picture Cabin Boy, for which he wrote the screenplay. Resnick wrote the screenplays for Lucky Numbers (2000), starring John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow, and Death to Smoochy (2002), directed by Danny DeVito.

Will Not Attend, a pseudo-memoir, was released in 2014. Kirkus Reviews called the book "a neurotic, unapologetic, hilarious collection."

Filmography Film Year Title Writer Director 1994 Cabin Boy 2000 Lucky Numbers 2003

Television YearTitleCreatorWriterProducer Notes 1986-1990, 1991-1992 Late Night with David Letterman 1987 Action Family Special thanks credit 1990-1992 Get a Life 1994-1995 Saturday Night Live 1996 The High Life 1997-1998 The Larry Sanders Show 2003 The Mayor The WB pilot 2009 Cop House Fox pilot 2009-2010 Bored to Death Consultant role 2016-2019 Divorce