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{{Short description|American comedian (born 1955)}}
{{Other people|Steven Wright}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2013}}
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| name            = Steven Wright
| image           = Steven Wright 1994.jpg
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| caption         = Wright in 1994
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| birth_name      = Steven Alexander Wright
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|1955|12|06}}
| birth_place     = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| medium          = {{flatlist|
* Stand-up
* film
* television
}}
| years_active    = 1978–present
| genre           = {{flatlist|
* [[Anti-humor]]
* [[deadpan]]
* [[One-line joke|one-liners]]
* [[wit]]/[[word play]]
* [[Non sequitur (literary device)|non sequitur]]
* [[observational comedy]]
* [[Musical theatre|musical comedy]]
}}
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| website         =  {{URL|www.stevenwright.com}}
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'''Steven Alexander Wright''' (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer. He is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, [[deadpan]] delivery of [[irony|ironic]], [[Philosophy#Contemporary philosophy (c. 1900 – present)|philosophical]] and sometimes nonsensical [[joke]]s, [[paraprosdokian]]s, [[non sequitur (literary device)|non sequiturs]], [[anti-humor]], and [[One-line joke|one-liners]] with contrived situations.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/comedian-steven-wright-on-his-deadpan-style-getting-inspired-by-salvador-dali-working-with-quentin-tarantino-and-more-6555970| title=Comedian Steven Wright on His Deadpan Style, Getting Inspired By Salvador Dali, Working With Quentin Tarantino, and More| last=Leatherman| first=Benjamin| newspaper=[[Phoenix New Times]]| date=8 May 2012| access-date=3 November 2015}}</ref>

Wright was ranked as the 15th Greatest Comedian by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in its 2017 list of the 50 Greatest Stand-up Comics.<ref>{{cite magazine| last1=Love| first1=Matthew| title=50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/50-best-stand-up-comics-of-all-time-126359/| magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]| date=14 February 2017| access-date=5 December 2017}}</ref> His accolades include the [[Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film]] for starring in, writing, and producing the short film ''[[The Appointments of Dennis Jennings]]'' (1988)<ref>{{cite web| title=The Appointments of Dennis Jennings| url=http://aaspeechesdb.oscars.org/link/061-18/| publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]| access-date=5 December 2017}}</ref> and two [[Primetime Emmy Awards]] nominations as a producer of ''[[Louie (American TV series)|Louie]]'' (2010–2015).<ref>{{cite web| title=Steven Wright| url=http://www.emmys.com/bios/steven-wright| publisher=[[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]]| access-date=5 December 2017}}</ref> He had a supporting role as Leon in the Peabody Award–winning tragicomedy web series ''[[Horace and Pete]]''.

== Early life, family  and education ==
Wright was born at [[Mount Auburn Hospital]] in  [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], and grew up in [[Burlington, Massachusetts]],<ref name="newsday">{{cite web |url= http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-etent2812804889may26,0,6077734.story |title=Comedian Steven Wright plays Westbury Sunday |first=Frank |last=Lovece |author-link=Frank Lovece |work=[[Newsday]] |location=Melville, NY |url-status=dead |date=May 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531055218/http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/ny-etent2812804889may26,0,6077734.story |archive-date=May 31, 2009 |access-date=March 22, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=A Famous Former Burlington Resident| date= March 3, 2010| first=Gail| last= Waterhouse| newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]}}</ref> one of four children of Lucille "Dolly" (née Lomano) and Alexander K. Wright.<ref name= "newsday" /><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.sullivanfuneralhome.net/bio.aspx?id=301 |title=Obituary |publisher= Sullivan Funeral Home | website = sullivanfuneralhome.net |date=January 9, 2008 |access-date=June 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217055050/http://www.sullivanfuneralhome.net/bio.aspx?id=301 |archive-date= December 17, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cover Story; The (sur)real Steven Wright; He laughs easily, works hard for material |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |date=August 1, 1987 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7C2D383BE2F59&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |access-date=February 22, 2010}}</ref> He was raised [[Catholic Church|Catholic]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.stevenwright.com/latest/seattletimes20020517.html |title=Latest |website=StevenWright.com |date=May 17, 2002 |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120418065330/http://www.stevenwright.com/latest/seattletimes20020517.html |archive-date=April 18, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> His mother was [[Italian Americans|Italian American]], and his father of Scottish descent.<ref name=ref09>{{cite news| last=Dana| first=Rebecca| title=Steven Wright on Letterman, Rembrandt and Being Short| newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]| date=June 5, 2009| url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/06/05/steven-wright-on-letterman-rembrandt-and-being-short/tab/article/| access-date=February 22, 2010| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Wright's father worked as an electronics technician who "tested a lot of stuff" for [[NASA]] during the [[Apollo program|Apollo space program]]. When that program ended, he worked as a truck driver.<ref name="newsday"/>

Wright attended [[Middlesex Community College (Massachusetts)|Middlesex Community College]] in [[Bedford, Massachusetts]], for two years to earn his [[associate degree]], then continued his education at [[Emerson College]].<ref name=bostonglobe>{{cite news| last=Crane| first=Joyce Pellino| title= Laugh Track: For more than five decades, Emerson College has been putting comics on the road to success| url=http://archive.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/10/07/laugh_track/| newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]| date=October 7, 2007| access-date= November 3, 2021}}</ref> He graduated from Emerson in 1978.<ref name=bostonglobe/>

==Career==
Wright began performing stand-up comedy in 1979<ref name= "newsday"/><ref>Young, Chris (October 11, 2007). [http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A36910 "Behind a new album, comedian Steven Wright plays Pittsburgh for the first time in five years"]. ''[[Pittsburgh City Paper]]''. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827153802/http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A36910 |date=August 27, 2009 }}</ref> at the Comedy Connection in Boston.<ref name= "newsday"/><ref name= "bostonglobe"/><ref>{{cite news| last= Leader| first=Jody| date=12 November 1989| title=Comedy fans meet Mr. Wright| url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19891112&id=EEpOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5576,4837256| newspaper= [[Star-News]]| location= Wilmington, North Carolina| agency= [[Los Angeles Daily News]] | page=1H |access-date=3 November 2021| quote=His first gig was at Boston's Comedy Connection during open-mike night. 'I [Wright] had about two minutes of material written, and I just stood there, a nervous wreck.'}}</ref> Wright cites stand-up comic [[George Carlin]] and director and former stand-up comic [[Woody Allen]] as comedic influences.<ref name="nyt1">{{cite news| last= Keepnews| first=Peter| date=February 10, 2008| title=A Strange Career Takes an Odd Turn| url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/arts/television/10keep.html| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| page=AR28| url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1982, [[Peter Lassally]], executive producer of [[NBC]]'s ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', saw Wright performing on a bill with other local comics at the Ding Ho comedy club in Cambridge, a venue Wright described as "half Chinese restaurant and half comedy club. It was a pretty weird place."<ref name=newsday/> Lassally booked Wright on ''The Tonight Show'', and Wright so impressed host [[Johnny Carson]] and the studio audience that less than a week later he was invited to appear on the show again.<ref name=nyt1/>

=== Stand-up success ===
Wright's 1985 comedy album ''[[I Have a Pony]]'' was released on [[Warner Bros. Records]], received critical acclaim and was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album]]. The album's success landed him an [[HBO]] special, in the ''On Location:'' series, taped at [[Bill Graham (promoter)|''Wolfgang's'']] in San Francisco. It was broadcast as ''A Steven Wright Special.''<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/16/arts/steven-wright-comic-on-location.html| title=Steven Wright, Comic, 'On Location'| first=John J.| last=O'Connor| date= September 16, 1985| newspaper= The New York Times| access-date=November 3, 2021}}</ref>

By then Wright had firmly developed a new brand of obscure, laid-back performing and was rapidly building a cultlike following and an onstage persona characterized by an aura of obscurity, with his penchant for non sequiturs and impassive, slow delivery adding to his mystique. The performance became one of HBO's longest-running and most requested comedy specials and propelled him to great success on the college-arena concert circuit.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

===Continued success beyond stand-up===
In 1989, Wright and fellow producer [[Dean Parisot]] won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for their 30-minute short film ''[[The Appointments of Dennis Jennings]]'', directed by Parisot, written by Mike Armstrong and Wright, and starring Wright and [[Rowan Atkinson]]. Upon accepting the Oscar, Wright said, "We're really glad that we cut out the other sixty minutes." In 1992, Wright had a recurring role on the television sitcom ''[[Mad About You]]''. He also supplied the voice of the radio DJ in writer-director [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s film ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' that year. "Dean Parisot's wife [[Sally Menke]] is Quentin Tarantino's [film] [[Film editing|editor]], so when she was editing the movie and it was getting down toward the end where they didn't have the radio DJ yet, she thought of me and told Quentin and he liked the idea," Wright explained in 2009.<ref name=newsday/>

In 1995, Wright provided voiceover work for [[TBS (American TV channel)|TBS]]'s Disaster Area cartoon block.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXFecX4JR88| archive-url= https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/vXFecX4JR88| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live| title=TBS - Disaster Area Bumper - 1995| date= June 4, 2017| publisher = TBS |via= YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Numerous lists of jokes attributed to Wright circulate on the Internet, sometimes of dubious origin. Wright has said, "Someone showed me a site, and half of it that said I wrote it, I didn't write. Recently, I saw one, and I didn't write any of it. What's disturbing is that with a few of these jokes, I wish I had thought of them. A giant amount of them, I'm embarrassed that people think I thought of them because some are really bad."<ref>{{cite interview | interviewer = Tasha Robinson | date= January 29, 2003 | first= Steven | last= Wright| url= http://www.avclub.com/article/steven-wright-13796 | title= Interview: Steven Wright| work =[[The A.V. Club]]| accessdate =}}</ref>

After his 1990 comedy special ''Wicker Chairs and Gravity'', Wright continued to do stand-up performances, but these were largely absent from television, and he only occasionally made guest spots on late-night talk shows. In 1999, he wrote and directed the 30-minute short ''[[One Soldier]]'', saying it's "about a soldier who was in the Civil War, right after the war, with all these existentialist thoughts and wondering if there is a God and all that stuff."<ref name=newsday />

In May 2000, Wright and other Ding Ho alumni, including [[Lenny Clarke]], Barry Crimmins, [[Steve Sweeney (comedian)|Steve Sweeney]], Bill Sohonage and [[Jimmy Tingle]], appeared at a reunion benefit for comic [[Bob Lazarus]], who was diagnosed with [[leukemia]].<ref name= loaded>Baltrusis, Sam (April 8, 2008). [http://www.loadedgunboston.com/2008/04/steven-wright-headlines-ding-ho-reunion.html "Steven Wright headlines Ding Ho reunion benefit"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090919090420/http://www.loadedgunboston.com/2008/04/steven-wright-headlines-ding-ho-reunion.html|date=September 19, 2009}}. LoadedGunBoston.com; accessed April 5, 2022.</ref>

In 2006, Wright produced his first stand-up special in 16 years, ''Steven Wright: [[When the Leaves Blow Away]]'', originally aired on [[Comedy Central]] on October 21, 2006. On September 25, 2007, Wright released his second album, ''[[I Still Have a Pony]]'', a CD release of the material from ''When The Leaves Blow Away''. It was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album]].{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Beginning in 2008, Wright occasionally appeared on ''[[The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson]]'' as a visiting celebrity, often dropping by to help with the fan-mail segment. He joined a small cadre of Hollywood comedy celebrities who supported the show.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43020005 |title=Steven on the Late Late Show |website=Vids.myspace.com |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100805022519/http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=43020005 |archive-date=August 5, 2010 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://video.tvguide.com/The+Late+Late+Show/The+Late+Late+Show++Steven+Wright+Drops+By/1772664 |title=The Late Late Show – Steven Wright Drops By |date=July 23, 2011 |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status= unfit |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110723044856/http://video.tvguide.com/The+Late+Late+Show/The+Late+Late+Show++Steven+Wright+Drops+By/1772664 |archive-date=July 23, 2011 }}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
Wright was awarded an Oscar in 1989 for Best Short Live-Action Film for ''[[The Appointments of Dennis Jennings]]'', which he co-wrote (with Michael Armstrong) and starred in.<ref>Nathan Rabin, [http://www.avclub.com/article/steven-wright-14029 "Interview: Steven Wright,"] ''The A.V. Club'', November 9, 2006.</ref> He received two [[Emmy Awards|Emmy Award]] nominations as part of the producing team of ''[[Louie (American TV series)|Louie]]'', first in [[66th Primetime Emmy Awards|2014]] and again in [[67th Primetime Emmy Awards|2015]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.emmys.com/bios/steven-wright| title=Steven Wright| website=Television Academy}}</ref>

On December 15, 2008, Wright became the first inductee to the Boston Comedy Hall of Fame.<ref name=punch>{{cite journal| url=http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/2008/12/steven-wright-inducted-into-hall-a-citys-comedy-history-celebrated/| last=Turbovsky| first=Rob| title=Steven Wright inducted into Hall, a city's comedy history celebrated| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428120350/http://punchlinemagazine.com/site/2008/12/steven-wright-inducted-into-hall-a-citys-comedy-history-celebrated/| archive-date=April 28, 2009| journal=Punchline Magazine| date=December 22, 2008}}</ref><ref>Miller, Jay, N. (December 15, 2008). "The Wright stuff; Boston comedian is the first inductee into the hall of fame". ''[[The Patriot Ledger]]''. ([[Quincy, Massachusetts]]), Features; pg. 23.</ref>

In a 2005 poll to find ''The Comedian's Comedian'', he was voted among the top 50 comedy acts by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. He was named No. 23 on [[Comedy Central]]'s list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.<ref>[http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1532323 Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of all Time], Everything2.com</ref>

== Other interests ==
Wright is a musician and has recorded several non-comedy songs with his friend and occasional actor Mark Wuerthner.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stevenwright.com/music_paint/music.html |title=Music |website=Steven Wright |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703024047/http://www.stevenwright.com/music_paint/music.html |archive-date=July 3, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{IMDb name|2990002|Mark Wuerthner}}</ref> He also has an interest in painting.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stevenwright.com/music_paint/index.html |title=Music & Paintings |website=Steven Wright |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120618002855/http://www.stevenwright.com/music_paint/index.html |archive-date= June 18, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

== Filmography ==
===Film===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1979
|''The Last Word ''
|Man in Crowd
|
|-
|1985
|''[[Desperately Seeking Susan]]''
|Larry Stillman D.D.S.
|
|-
|1986
|''Coffee and Cigarettes''
|Steven
|Short film; also writer
|-
|rowspan=2|1988
|''[[The Appointments of Dennis Jennings]]''
|Dennis Jennings
|Also writer and producer
|-
|''[[Stars and Bars (1988 film)|Stars and Bars]]''
|Pruitt
|
|-
|1990
|''[[Men of Respect]]''
|Sterling
|
|-
|-
|1992
|''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''
|K-Billy DJ (voice)
|
|-
|1993
|''[[So I Married an Axe Murderer]]''
|Pilot
|
|-
|rowspan=4|1994
|''[[The Swan Princess]]''
|Speed (voice)
|
|-
|''[[Natural Born Killers]]''
|Dr. Emil Reingold
|
|-
|''[[Speechless (1994 film)|Speechless]]''
|Eddie
|
|-
|''[[Mixed Nuts]]''
|Man at Pay Phone
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1995
|''[[For Better or Worse (film)|For Better or Worse]]''
|Cabbie
|
|-
|''[[Canadian Bacon]]''
|Niagara [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police|Mountie]]
|
|-
|rowspan=3|1998
|''[[Half Baked]]''
|The Guy on the Couch
|Uncredited
|-
|''[[Babe: Pig in the City]]''
|Bob (voice)
|
|-
|''1999''
|Goatman
|
|-
|rowspan=2|1999
|''[[One Soldier]]''
|Soldier
|Short; director, writer, producer
|-
|''[[The Muse (film)|The Muse]]''
|Stan Spielberg
|
|-
|2000
|''[[Loser (film)|Loser]]''
|Panty Hose Customer
|
|-
|2003
|''[[Coffee and Cigarettes]]''
|Steven
|Segment: "Strange to Meet You"
|-
|rowspan=3|2005
|''[[Son of the Mask]]''
|Daniel Moss
|
|-
|''[[The Aristocrats (film)|The Aristocrats]]''
|Himself
|
|-
|''[[When Stand Up Stood Out]]''
|Himself
|
|-
|2017
|''[[The Emoji Movie]]''<ref>{{cite web| last1=Goldberg|first1=Matt| title='The Emoji Movie' Trailer Literally Gets Promoted by "Meh"| url=http://collider.com/the-emoji-movie-trailer/#images| website=Collider| access-date=December 20, 2016| date=December 20, 2016}}</ref>
|Mel (voice)
|
|-
|}

===Television===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1979
|''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]''
|Security Officer
|Episode: "Fish Story"
|-
| 1980
|''Lenny Clarke's Late Show''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carroll |first1=Janis |title=Comedian Lenny Clark to return to the Pitman's stage |url=https://www.laconiadailysun.com/community/lake_style/comedian-lenny-clark-to-return-to-the-pitmans-stage/article_8485cb8a-42e4-11ea-8259-2f6382848c6b.html |access-date=29 April 2022 |work=The Laconia Daily Sun |language=en}}</ref>
|Various
|Series regular
|-
| 1985
|''A Steven Wright Special''
|Himself
|Stand-up special; also writer
|-
|1987
|''[[Trying Times]]''
|Dwight Harper
|Episode: "Get a Job"
|-
|1991
|''Wicker Chairs and Gravity''
|Himself
|[[HBO]] stand-up special;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stevenwright.com/history/index.shtml |title=The History |website=Steven Wright |access-date=June 12, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628221550/http://stevenwright.com/history/index.shtml |archive-date=June 28, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><br /> also writer and producer
|-
| 1992
|''[[Bob (TV series)|Bob]]''
|Noah the Cab Driver
|Episode: "Mad Dog on 34th Street"
|-
| 1993
|''[[Mad About You]]''
|Warren Mermelman
|5 episodes
|-
|1993–1998
|''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]''
|Himself
| 3 episodes
|-
|1995–1997
|''[[Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist]]''
|Steven (voice)
| 2 episodes
|-
|rowspan=2|1997
|''[[Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child]]''
|Bogeyman (voice)
|Episode: "Mother Goose"
|-
|''[[Almost Perfect]]''
|Ray Whitestone
|Episode: "Dating for Ratings"
|-
| 1998
|''[[The Simpsons]]''
|Himself (voice)
|Episode: "[[The Last Temptation of Krust]]"
|-
|1998–1999
|''[[Hercules (1998 TV series)|Hercules]]''
|Bootes (voice)
|2 episodes
|-
|rowspan=2|1999
|''[[Becker (TV series)|Becker]]''
|Boyd Crossman
|Episode: "Larry Spoke"
|-
|''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]''
|Himself
|Episode: "Snatch"
|-
|rowspan=2|2001
|''[[The Downer Channel]]''
|Walter
|Episode: "#1.2"
|-
|''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''
|Disease Hotline (voice)
|Pilot episode
|-
|2006
|''[[When the Leaves Blow Away]]''
|Himself
|[[Comedy Central]] stand-up special;<br /> also writer and executive producer
|-
|2011
|''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''
|Danny (voice)
|Episode: "[[Allen (Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1)|Allen Part One]]"
|-
|2011–2015
|''[[Louie (American TV series)|Louie]]''
|Comic Strip MC / Himself
|Actor: 2 episodes, story by: "The Road: Part 2",<br /> producer: 8 episodes
|-
|2015
|''The Flaming C''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqttFWSPtMY | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/vqttFWSPtMY| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=(I'm From) Western Mass | date=October 18, 2012|publisher=Dr. Westchesterson |access-date=October 22, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|R.A.N.D.Y. (voice)
| 2 episodes
|-
|2016
|''[[Horace and Pete]]''<ref name=Gothamist-HoracePeteSurprise-2016>{{cite news| last1=Yakas| first1=Ben| title=Louis C.K. Releases Surprise New Dramatic Web Series Horace & Pete| url=http://gothamist.com/2016/01/30/louis_ck_releases_surprise_new_web.php| access-date=30 January 2016| work=[[Gothamist]]| date=30 January 2016| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131093700/http://gothamist.com/2016/01/30/louis_ck_releases_surprise_new_web.php| archive-date=January 31, 2016| df=mdy-all}}</ref>
|Leon
|Web series
|-
|}

== Discography ==
=== Albums ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Label
!Formats
!Notes
|-
|1985
|''[[I Have a Pony]]''
|[[Warner Bros. Records]]
|LP/cassette, CD (2005), CD/download (2009)
|''Deluxe Anniversary Edition'' CD reissued in 2009 with ''A Steven Wright Special'' DVD<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/432106-Steven-Wright-2 |title=Steven Wright (2) |website=[[Discogs]] |access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref>
|-
|2007
|''[[I Still Have a Pony]]''
|[[Comedy Central Records]]
|CD/download
|Soundtrack of the ''When the Leaves Blow Away'' special
|}

=== Specials ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Studio
!Formats
|-
|1985
|''A Steven Wright Special''
|[[HBO]]/Warner Bros. Records
|Broadcast, DVD (2009)
|-
|1990
|''Wicker Chairs and Gravity''
|HBO
|Broadcast
|-
|2006
|''[[When the Leaves Blow Away]]''
|[[Comedy Central]]/[[RLJE Films|Image Entertainment]]
|Broadcast, DVD (2007), streaming
|}

=== Appearances ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Label
!Notes
|-
|1992
|''[[Reservoir Dogs#Soundtrack|Reservoir Dogs: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]]''
|[[MCA Records]]
|6 tracks of DJ dialogue
|}

== Books ==
* {{Cite book |last1=Wright |first1=Steven |date=16 May 2023 |title=Harold: A Novel |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-6680-2269-6 |oclc=1378793643 |language=en}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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* {{Official website|http://www.stevenwright.com }}
* {{IMDb name|0942833}}
* [http://www.wright-house.com/steven-wright/steven-wright-jokes.html Wright-House.com: Jokes attributed to Steven Wright, with actual authors identified]
* [https://www.dead-frog.com/blog/entry/a-preview-of-steven-wright-when-the-leaves-blow-away video clip of Steven Wright from ''When the Leaves Blow Away''] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20080829211827/http://www.dead-frog.com/archives/2006/10/interview_steven_wright_standup_comedian.php interview] - Dead-Frog.com
* {{cite news| url=http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/stlog/2008/10/wright_stuff_comic_steven_wrig.php| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205072407/http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/stlog/2008/10/wright_stuff_comic_steven_wrig.php |archive-date=December 5, 2008 |title=Interview: Steven Wright |newspaper=[[Riverfront Times]] |date=October 15, 2008}}

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