Eric Appel

Eric Appel

Nascimento : 1980-08-13, Endicott, New York, USA

História

Eric Appel (born August 13, 1980) is a writer/director working in television, film, and commercials. Originally from Endicott, New York, Appel attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, majoring in computer animation. While in college, Appel also began performing improv comedy, after his girlfriend brought him to a "show at the University of Pittsburgh called 'Friday Nite Improvs,' where anyone from the audience could volunteer to go up on stage and perform these improv games." After moving to New York City, Appel started taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and became very involved very quickly. While still in New York, Appel got a job writing for The Andy Milonakis Show, then moved to Los Angeles for that show's third season when its production was relocated to California. He subsequently wrote for Crank Yankers and Human Giant, then went to work for the comedy website Funny or Die. "Funny or Die was such a young company when they hired me... There were about eight of us all sitting around a large dining room table on laptops. Every day a few people would disappear to go shoot some shit and then the next day they would be sitting next to you editing it. Then it would go up on the site and it would either get a million hits or nobody would watch it and it would disappear and then it was on to the next thing. Everyone there worked at their own pace and you were encouraged to just go pick up a camera and make something... I used this as an opportunity to start directing my own sketches and quickly found out that not only do I like directing more than writing, but also that I’m better at it." Appel would go on to extensively direct series television, with credits including Eagleheart, NTSF:SD:SUV, The Office, New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Son of Zorn, and Die Hart. In 2022, Appel made his feature directorial debut with Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, based on a Funny or Die short that he directed twelve years earlier. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eric Appel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Eric Appel

Filmes

Duro de Atuar
Director
Kevin Hart, fazendo uma versão de si mesmo, vai encarar o desafio da sua vida para se tornar um herói de ação. E só com a ajuda de John Travolta, Nathalie Emmanuel e Josh Hartnett que ele poderá alcançar o sucesso.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Captain Buffoon
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story é um filme biografico sobre Al Yankovic, um comediante e musicista. O filme explora todas as facetas da vida de Yankovic, desde sua ascensão meteórica à fama com sucessos iniciais como 'Eat It' e 'Like a Surgeon' até seus tórridos casos amorosos de celebridades e estilo de vida notoriamente depravado.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Producer
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story é um filme biografico sobre Al Yankovic, um comediante e musicista. O filme explora todas as facetas da vida de Yankovic, desde sua ascensão meteórica à fama com sucessos iniciais como 'Eat It' e 'Like a Surgeon' até seus tórridos casos amorosos de celebridades e estilo de vida notoriamente depravado.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Writer
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story é um filme biografico sobre Al Yankovic, um comediante e musicista. O filme explora todas as facetas da vida de Yankovic, desde sua ascensão meteórica à fama com sucessos iniciais como 'Eat It' e 'Like a Surgeon' até seus tórridos casos amorosos de celebridades e estilo de vida notoriamente depravado.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Director
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story é um filme biografico sobre Al Yankovic, um comediante e musicista. O filme explora todas as facetas da vida de Yankovic, desde sua ascensão meteórica à fama com sucessos iniciais como 'Eat It' e 'Like a Surgeon' até seus tórridos casos amorosos de celebridades e estilo de vida notoriamente depravado.
Swords, Knives, Very Sharp Objects and Cutlery
Director
Dragon Shumway's advertisement for his Complete Sword Collection.
This Show Will Get You High
Director
"My name is Matt Besser, one of the founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and one of the creators of This Show Will Get You High. A year ago I approached the leaders of Comedy Central with the idea to create a sketch show so funny that it had the power to get the viewer high. I theorized that if we can get the kids high on sketch comedy, then they won’t have to be in the empty lots and the abandoned malls looking for real drugs like heroin, crack, and worst of all, marijuana."
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Writer
A fictional biographical film about ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic that parodies other films based on musicians.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Director
A fictional biographical film about ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic that parodies other films based on musicians.
Paranormal Saw
Editor
In an attempt to film evidence of a haunting, a young couple find more than they bargained for.
Paranormal Saw
Director
In an attempt to film evidence of a haunting, a young couple find more than they bargained for.
Paranormal Saw
Writer
In an attempt to film evidence of a haunting, a young couple find more than they bargained for.
Stepdude
Screenplay
Stepdude
Director