An individual who ultimately clocked in as one of Hollywood's mainstays for helming male-dominated farces (and demonstrated an adroit hand for working with A-list stars), Peter Segal graduated from the University of Southern California. He forged his first significant professional association with Tom_Arnold, for whom he wrote a series of acclaimed specials and worked as a writer on the comic's sitcom The Jackie Thomas Show (1992-1993) during the early '90s. Segal first bowed as a director on the schtick-fest The_Naked_Gun_33_1/3:_The_Final_Insult (1994), and thereafter, moved almost exclusively into feature territory with his heaviest emphasis on slapstick. Projects included the Chris_Farley yuckfest Tommy_Boy (1995), the Dan_Aykroyd-Jack_Lemmon presidential comedy My_Fellow_Americans (1996), and the Eddie_Murphy vehicle The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000).


Shortly thereafter, Segal began a longstanding, multi-film association with comedic actor Adam_Sandler and his Happy Madison production banner, for which he turned out Anger_Management (2003), 50_First_Dates (2004), and The_Longest_Yard (2005) -- all starring Sandler. Two years after Yard, Village Roadshow tapped Segal to helm the spy comedy Get_Smart, starring Steve_Carell and Anne_Hathaway -- a cinematization of Mel_Brooks' 1960s sitcom of the same title. Nathan Southern, Rovi

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