Editing Adam Resnick

{{short description|American director, producer and writer}}
{{For|the federal whistleblower|Adam B. Resnick}}
{{distinguish|Alan Resnick}}

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'''Adam Resnick''' is an American comedy writer from [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]]. He is best known for his work writing for ''[[Late Night with David Letterman]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/166451/Adam-Resnick |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140314030630/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/166451/Adam-Resnick |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2014-03-14 |title= Adam Resnick |department= Movies & TV Dept. |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= 2014 |accessdate= 2014-05-01}}</ref>

He co-created and wrote for ''[[Get a Life (American TV series)|Get A Life]]'' with [[Chris Elliott]]. Resnick also wrote and was co-executive producer of a season of ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'' for [[Home Box Office|HBO]]. He created and wrote ''[[The High Life (1996 TV series)|The High Life]]'' (1996), also for HBO. Also for television, he has written for ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', and is a writer and consulting producer on ''[[Divorce (TV series)|Divorce]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Will |date=2018-09-25 |title=Adam Resnick Breaks Down the Surreal W.C. Fields Comedy Million Dollar Legs |url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/09/underrated-adam-resnick-on-w-c-fields-million-dollar-legs.html |access-date=2022-12-08 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}</ref>

Resnick has also written for film. With its star, Chris Elliott, Resnick created the story for the 1994 motion picture ''[[Cabin Boy]]'', for which he wrote the screenplay. Resnick wrote the screenplays for  ''[[Lucky Numbers]]'' (2000), starring [[John Travolta]] and [[Lisa Kudrow]], and ''[[Death to Smoochy]]'' (2002), directed by [[Danny DeVito]].

''Will Not Attend'', a pseudo-[[memoir]], was released in 2014.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/adam-resnick-no-rsvp-required-89700/|title=Adam Resnick: No RSVP Required|first1=Steve|last1=Heisler|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=May 26, 2014}}</ref> ''[[Kirkus Reviews]]'' called the book "a neurotic, unapologetic, hilarious collection."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-resnick/will-not-attend/|title=WILL NOT ATTEND &#124; Kirkus Reviews|via=www.kirkusreviews.com}}</ref>

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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0720304}}
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/27/movies/film-review-it-sure-takes-more-than-a-dollar-and-a-dream.html NY Times Review 2000]

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