Spike Feresten Biography
Spike Feresten is a television writer, screenwriter, comedian, and television personality from the U.S best known for his work on Seinfeld, writing for David Letterman, and hosting Fox’s late-night Talkshow with Spike Feresten from 2006–2009. He and Paul Zuckerman co-host the podcast Spike’s Car Radio. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2007 animated film Bee Movie.
How old is Spike Feresten? – Age
He is 59 years old as of 3 September 2023. He was born in 1964 in Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.
Spike Feresten Family – Education
Feresten was born on September 3, 1964, in Fall River, Massachusetts, and grew up in West Bridgewater, where he attended public school. He lived with his parents, Mary Jo and Michael, as well as his younger brother, Wally Feresten. Feresten then attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he wanted to pursue a career in music. Feresten dropped out of college to pursue a career in television, starting as an intern at NBC in New York City before moving up to receptionist.
Spike Feresten Wife
He is married to Erika Feresten. The couple has two children; James Michael Feresten, and Jack Henry Feresten.
Spike Feresten Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Spike Feresten Seinfeld
Feresten left late-night television in 1995 to join the writing staff of the enormously successful comedy Seinfeld during its seventh season. He continued there for three seasons until the show’s demise, becoming supervising producer in 1998. Feresten garnered three Emmy nominations during his time on Seinfeld, including one for his well-known “Soup Nazi” episode, which is still part of pop cultural lore.
Spike Feresten House
He frequently drives up the coast on weekends from his Brentwood home, where he lives with his wife and children. He takes the Pacific Coast Highway to Malibu and joins up with friends at the Malibu Kitchen, which is run by an owner who is so stringent that Feresten and his friends refer to him as the “Deli Nazi.”
Spike Feresten Car Collection
Feresten prefers Porsches and enjoys driving through the Malibu canyons. Feresten described it as a 1973 Porsche 911T, the first of several German cars he would eventually purchase. Today’s garage includes a ’79 Volkswagen Beetle that was originally a German police car, as well as a vintage Land Rover.Feresten and Seinfeld agree on one point about automobile collecting and vintage car ownership: the owner is only borrowing the car for a while.Feresten could talk about cars all day. However, he admitted that his driving chats with his buddies tend to be both speculative and serious.
Spike Feresten Career
Feresten began his career writing for Saturday Night Live, where he earned the moniker “Spike” while working as a receptionist. From there, he joined the writing staff of Late Night with David Letterman, followed by the Late Show. Feresten moved on to write for The Dana Carvey Show before landing his big break on The Simpsons and Seinfeld in 1995.
Feresten wrote one episode for The Simpsons during its seventh season, “Sideshow Bob’s Last Gleaming,” which aired on November 26, 1995. In the episode, Sideshow Bob escapes from prison and takes control of a TV screen at an airshow, demanding that all television stations go off the air immediately.
Feresten has stated that, while he wrote and was credited with the script, it was completely altered, with only the fundamental ideas remaining, as was the normal writing procedure for the show.
After Seinfeld ended in 1998, Spike worked on pilots (including one with Louis C.K.) and the short-lived The Michael Richards Show, as well as a brief spell as producer of The Jamie Kennedy Experiment, which aired in April 2004.
Spike Feresten Talkshow with Spike Feresten
Feresten launched Talkshow with Spike Feresten, a Saturday night conversation show on Fox, in 2006. While “Talkshow” was originally intended as an entertainment news parody, it evolved into a combination of typical talkshow parts, sketch elements, field pieces, false ads, and pop culture parodies. Feresten told Variety magazine that the show’s structure is “all the comedy you’d find in a talkshow, but without any of the talk.” The show featured notable guests such as Tom Green, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Andy Richter, Tom Arnold, Carl Reiner, Tim Heidecker, Vanilla Ice, and Eric Wareheim.
Feresten acknowledged that when it came to finding guests for the show, they called pals. Sometimes we’re so close to having our receptionist on the air. But because we are not guest-driven, we simply search out funny folks we know.”
It aired for three seasons, making it the longest-running late-night television show in Fox history. From January 17, 2006 until February 21, 2009, the show ran a six-week test run of hour-long episodes that aired one hour earlier than usual, following the termination of MADtv. The show was canceled in May 2009.