David Misch has been a comic folksinger, comedian and screenwriter; his credits include the multiple-Emmy-nominated “Mork and Mindy,” the Emmy-losing “Duckman,” the Emmy-ignored “Police Squad!,” the Emmy-engorged “Saturday Night Live,” and the Emmy-ineligible “The Muppets Take Manhattan.” David’s written Funny: The Book and A Beginner’s Guide To Corruption, and he blogs for HuffPost.

David’s taught his own comedy courses at USC and UCLA, and now lectures around the world, at Yale, Columbia, Oxford, the Smithsonian Institute, Trinity College Dublin, CineStudio Paris, University of Sydney, University of Auckland, the American Film Institute, the Grammy Museum, Austin Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival (London), 92Y (NYC), Skirball Cultural Center (L.A.), Second City (Chicago), Actors Studio (NYC), New York Public Library, Burbank Comedy Festival, Lucasfilm, DreamWorks, Sony Pictures, Disney, Writers Guild of America, Midwest Popular Culture Association, VIEW Cinema (Torino, Italy) and San Miguel (Mexico) Writers conferences, and more than 30 lifelong learning programs around the country.. More at davidmisch.com.