Charlie Grandy


Charles Grandy is an American stand-up comedian, television writer and producer. He began his career on the television series The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Saturday Night Live, The Office, Night at the Theatre, and Guys With Kids. Grandy has had a string of collaborations with actress and producer Mindy Kaling through The Mindy Project, Champions, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and The Sex Lives of College Girls. He is the son of former Love Boat star turned politician Fred Grandy.

Career

After working as a stand-up comedian, Grandy turned to television writing and became a writer on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in 2001. After his Daily Show stint, Grandy became a writer and producer on Saturday Night Live, where he worked until 2008. He worked on the Weekend Update sketch. In the same year, he joined the writing staff of the fifth season of the American version of The Office. At the beginning of the sixth season he became a co-producer and by the time the show entered its seventh season, he had become a supervising producer of the series. After the cancellation of his show, Guys With Kids, he joined his former Office cohort, Mindy Kaling, on the second season of her show, The Mindy Project, as a writer and co-executive producer. In 2018, Grandy and Kaling created the NBC show Champions. He served as an executive producer on Kaling's 2019 miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral.
He is a writer for The Sex Lives of College Girls, another Kaling production and is credited with writing two episodes.

Writing credits

YearTitleNotes
2001–2008Saturday Night Live127 episodes credited as a writer; 4 episodes credited as "written by"
2008–2012The OfficeEpisodes written:
  1. Season 5, Episode 5 – "Crime Aid"
  2. Season 5, Episode 25 – "Broke"
  3. Season 6, Episode 9 – "Double Date
  4. Season 6, Episode 18 – "The Delivery, Part Two"
  5. Season 7, Episode 3 – "Andy's Play"
  6. Season 7, Episode 23 – "The Inner Circle"
  7. Season 8, Episode 3 – "Lotto"
  8. Season 8, Episode 19 – "Get the Girl"
2013–2014Episodes written:
  • Season 2, Episode 7 – "Sk8er Man"
  • Season 2, Episode 12 – "Danny Castellano Is My Personal Trainer"
  • Season 2, Episode 19 – "Think Like A Peter"
  • 2018ChampionsEpisodes written:
  • Season 1, Episode 1 – "Pilot"
  • Season 1, Episode 2 – "I Think I’m Gonna Tolerate It Here"
  • Season 1, Episode 4 – "My Fair Uncle"
  • Season 1, Episode 10 – "Deal or No Deal"
  • 2019Four Weddings and a FuneralEpisodes written:
  • Season 1, Episode 5 – "Love, Chalet"
  • Season 1, Episode 8 – "Game Night"
  • 2021The Sex Lives of College GirlsEpisodes written:
  • Season 1, Episode 4 - "Kappa"
  • Season 1, Episode 8 - "The Surprise Party"
  • 2023–2024VelmaEpisodes written:
  • Season 1, Episode 1 – "Velma"
  • Season 1, Episode 9 – "Family man"
  • Season 1, Episode 10 – "The Brains of the Operation"
  • Season 2, Episode 1 – "The Mystery of Teen Romance"
  • Season 2, Episode 10 – "Til Death"
  • Personal life

    Grandy married Sage Davis in July 2004. He is the son of actor and politician Fred Grandy and his first wife Jan ; his parents divorced in 1983. Grandy graduated from Harvard University.

    Awards and nominations

    Grandy has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for The Daily Show and the other for Saturday Night Live. In 2009 he received two Writers Guild of America award nominations, one for the fifth season of The Office and another for writing the episode "Broke".