Paul Dinello Biography
Paul Dinello moved to Chicago to study at DePaul University, where he got involved with the Second City comedy troupe and met fellow comedians Amy_Sedaris and Stephen_Colbert. The three of them moved to New York to create the sketch comedy show Exit 57, which originally aired on Comedy Central. After making his film debut in the Dolly_Parton comedy feature Straight_Talk, he appeared in the 1998 parody Plump_Fiction, starring Tommy_Davidson, Julie_Brown, and Sandra_Bernhard. He also appeared in the TV movie The Howard Beach Story. His stage credits include +Jackie's Kosher Khristmas and +Stitches (written by Amy and her brother David_Sedaris). In 1999, Dinello re-teamed with the gang from Exit 57 to create Strangers_With_Candy, an after-school special parody of sorts on Comedy Central. In addition to writing and producing the series, he starred as art teacher Geoffrey Jellineck. The team also collaborated on a book called -Wigfield: The Can-Do Town That Just May Not, published by Hyperion. Strangers_With_Candy was canceled in 2000, though Dinello began working on a movie version of the show in 2004. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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