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Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and an Oscar-winning film producer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.
==Early life and career==
Wright was born at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts, one of four children of Lucille "Dolly" (née Lomano) and Alexander K. Wright.〔 He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His mother was Italian American and his father was of Scottish descent. Wright's father worked as an electronics technician who "tested a lot of stuff" for NASA (in the Apollo spacecraft program), and when that program ended he worked as a truck driver.〔
Wright attended Middlesex Community College in Bedford, Massachusetts for two years to earn his associate's degree before continuing his baccalaureate education at Emerson College.〔Crane, Joyce Pellino. "Laugh Track: For more than five decades, Emerson College has been putting comics on the road to success," ''The Boston Globe,'' October 7, 2007〕 He graduated from Emerson in 1978〔 and the next year he began performing stand-up comedy in 1979〔〔(Young, Chris. "Behind a new album, comedian Steven Wright plays Pittsburgh for the first time in five years" ), ''Pittsburgh City Paper'', October 11, 2007〕 at the Comedy Connection in Boston.〔〔 Wright cites comic George Carlin and director Woody Allen as comedic influences.〔Keepnews, Peter. "A Strange Career Takes an Odd Turn," ''The New York Times,'' February 10, 2008, Section AR; Column 0; Arts and Leisure Desk; Television; Pg. 11〕
In 1982 executive producer of ''The Tonight Show'' Peter Lassally saw Wright performing on a bill with other local comics at the Ding Ho comedy club,〔(Turbovsky, Rob. "Steven Wright inducted into Hall, a city’s comedy history celebrated" ), ''Punchline Magazine,'' December 22, 2008〕 in Cambridge's Inman Square,〔(Baltrusis, Sam. "Steven Wright headlines Ding Ho reunion benefit" ), LoadedGunBoston.com, April 8, 2008〕 a venue Wright described as "half Chinese restaurant and half comedy club. It was a pretty weird place."〔 Lassally booked Wright on NBC's ''The Tonight Show,'' where the comic so impressed host Johnny Carson and the studio audience that less than a week later Wright was invited to appear on the show again.〔 In May 2000, Wright and other Ding Ho alumni including Lenny Clarke, Barry Crimmins, Steve Sweeney, Bill Sohonage, and Jimmy Tingle appeared at a reunion benefit for comic Bob Lazarus who was suffering from leukemia.〔
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