Andy Breckman (born March 3, 1955) is an American television and film writer and a radio personality on WFMU. He is the co-creator (with David Hoberman) and executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning television series Monk on the USA Network, and is co-host of WFMU radio's long-running conceptual comedy program Seven Second Delay. He has written screenplays for a number of comedy films including Sgt. Bilko (starring Steve Martin) and Rat Race (directed by Jerry Zucker), and is frequently hired as a "script doctor" to inject humorous content into scripts written by other screenwriters.Although he first made his professional mark as a comedy writer (for Saturday Night Live and David Letterman), Breckman's biggest success, Monk, was a murder-mystery with a humorous edge. Breckman told New Jersey Monthly that he was a voracious reader of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, John D. MacDonald, and other authors of “solvable” mysteries, as well as being a big fan of the TV series Columbo. “In a way, it’s similar to comedy writing,” he says. “It’s puzzles and puzzle solving. Very logical.” In August 2009, USA Network launched Little Monk, a spinoff series that portrays the main character, detective Adrian Monk, as a child. Breckman was part of the show's team of writers.In 2014 Breckman launched a line of unusual toys under the brand name Uncle Andy Toys.
WGA Award for Best Comedy/Variety - Music, Awards, Tributes - Specials - Television
Albums
Don't Get Killed, Proud Dad
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing - Variety Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special, Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Children's Script
Movies
Triumph's Election Special 2016, Rat Race, Sgt. Bilko, I.Q., True Identity, Hot to Trot, Arthur 2: On the Rocks, Moving, Tourist Trap
TV Shows
Monk, The Good Cop
Star Sign
Pisces
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Fact
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(1996-) Andy Breckman can be heard on WFMU's Seven-Second Delay, Wednesdays at 6PM. (91.1 FM, East Orange, New Jersey)
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Daughter from second marriage Molly
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The children from his first marriage are Joshua (eldest) Rachel (second) Julie (third).
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Ater Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) was released in his hometown's theater, he allegedly hung around outside apologizing to anyone who had seen it.
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A tattoo on his ankle is a portion of the Chinese translation of "Take Out".
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Once did not recognise his own wife's voice when she called into his radio show.
$20 Million
