David Javerbaum is a 13-time Emmy-winning American comedy writer. As of 2014 he is the head writer and producer for The Maya Rudolph Show on NBC and the creator and executive producer of two news-parody shows, No, You Shut Up! and Good Morning Today, which are co-produced by The Henson Company and air on Fusion, as well as God's secretary for his Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod and the co-author of Neil Patrick Harris's Choose Your Own Autobiography.Javerbaum was hired as a staff writer at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 1999. He was promoted to head writer in 2002 and became an executive producer at the end of 2006. His work for the program won 11 Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Peabody Awards and Television Critics Association Awards for both Best Comedy and Best News Show. He was also one of the three principal authors of the show's textbook parody America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, which sold 2.6 million copies and won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor. He became a consulting producer at the start of 2009 and spent the next 18 months spearheading the writing of the book's sequel, Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race, which was released in September 2010; his co-production of its audiobook earned the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Spoken-Word Album. He left the show in July 2010.He is the author of The Last Testament: A Memoir by God, released in 2011, in conjunction with which he created @TheTweetOfGod. It was his second book as sole author; the first was the 2009 pregnancy satire What to Expect When You're Expected: A Fetus's Guide to the First Three Trimesters.Javerbaum is also a musical-theater lyricist and librettist who is an alumnus of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He won the $100,000 Ed Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics in 2005. Along with his frequent collaborator Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne, he wrote the opening to the 65th Tony Awards, "Broadway: It's Not Just for Gays Anymore!", which earned him his twelfth Emmy (and first apart from The Daily Show) in 2012 for Outstanding Music and Lyrics. The pair also wrote the score of the Broadway adaptation of John Waters' Cry-Baby, which opened on April 24, 2008 and was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score; eight original Christmas songs for Stephen Colbert's 2008 television special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!, which won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album; "TV Is a Vast Wonderland", the opening to the 2011 Emmy Awards; the opening ("What If Life Were More Like Theater?") and closing ("If I Had Time") songs for the 66th Tony Awards, for which he won his 13th Emmy along with a Writers Guild Award for Best Writing in a TV Special); "The Number in the Middle of the Show", for the 2013 Emmy Awards; "We're Fusion!", the 2013 'opening number' to the Fusion TV network; and "Are You Ready for Christmas?"
Indecision 2004: Midway to the Election Spectacular
2004
TV Special supervising producer
The Race from the White House 2004
2004
TV Special supervising producer
Disjointed
2017
TV Series executive producer - 1 episode pre-production
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015-2016
TV Series producer - 254 episodes
No, You Shut Up!
2013-2016
TV Series executive producer - 58 episodes
The Maya Rudolph Show
2014
TV Movie producer
Good Morning Today
2013-2014
TV Series executive producer - 20 episodes
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Halal in the Family
2015
TV Series lyrics - 4 episodes
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards
2013
TV Special lyrics: "The Number in the Middle of the Show" / music: "The Number in the Middle of the Show"
Browsers
2013
TV Movie lyrics: "My Life", "It's Not Like", "Someone With Whom...", "Goin' Viral", "When I Tweet"
The 66th Annual Tony Awards
2012
TV Movie documentary writer: "What If Life Were More Like Theatre?", "If I Had Time"
The 65th Annual Tony Awards
2011
TV Special lyrics: "It's Not Just for Gays Anymore"
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
2008
TV Movie lyrics: "Little Dealer Boy", "There Are Much Worse Things to Believe In", "Hannukah", "Another Christmas Song", "Nutmeg", "Please Be Patient", "Cold, Cold Christmas", "Have I Got a Present for You"
The 62nd Annual Tony Awards
2008
TV Special lyrics: "A Little Upset"
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Halal in the Family
2015
TV Series composer - 4 episodes
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
2008
TV Movie music producer
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Colbert Report
2005-2006
TV Series consultant - 3 episodes
Steve Carell Salutes Steve Carell
2001
TV Special consultant - as D.J. Javerbaum
The Greatest Millennium
1999
TV Special consultant - as D.J. Javerbaum
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
It Getteth Better
2011
Video short
God
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
2008
TV Movie
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
2013 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2013
TV Special
Himself - Co-Winner: Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics (uncredited)