#The big short director series
Ferrell and McKay co-produce the HBO series Eastbound & Down. Shortly after leaving SNL, McKay teamed up with comedian Will Ferrell to form Gary Sanchez Productions and write the comedy films Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Step Brothers (2008), and The Other Guys (2010), all of which he also directed, produced and made cameo appearances in as an actor. Though McKay was never an actual SNL cast member, he did make several on-camera appearances over the years and had a recurring role as an obnoxious audience member "Keith" who would often shout insults at the celebrity hosts during their opening monologue. McKay encouraged his Second City friend Tina Fey to submit some of her scripts to Saturday Night Live, and she later succeeded him as head writer.
He also directed a number of short films for the show, including the original SNL Digital Shorts. However, the scripts he submitted earned him a job as a writer from 1995, and within a year McKay became head writer at age 27, a position he held until 2001. McKay originally auditioned for Saturday Night Live to be an onscreen performer, but did not make the cut. The latter performance was excerpted in Second City's 40th anniversary compilation. In several politically charged sketches, McKay played characters like Noam Chomsky as a substitute kindergarten teacher, and a hapless personnel manager trying to inform a corporate vice president ( Scott Adsit) of some disastrous IQ test results without losing his own job.
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While a member of the mainstage cast at Second City, he wrote and performed in that company's landmark revue, Pinata Full of Bees. He is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group and a former performer at Chicago's ImprovOlympic, where he was a member of the improv group, The Family, whose members included Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Neil Flynn, Miles Stroth, and Ali Farahnakian, as well as Child's Play Touring Theatre. He described it as "settling with an imaginary degree". McKay dropped out of Temple a semester-and-a-half before he was set to earn his bachelor's degree. He then attended Pennsylvania State University for a year before transferring to Temple University, where he majored in English. He attended Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1986. When McKay was seven, his parents divorced. McKay was born in 1968 in Denver, Colorado and was raised in Worcester, Massachusetts and then Malvern, Pennsylvania by a waitress mother, Sarah, and a musician father. In 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries. For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, and the WGA Awards. For this film, he was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (with co-writer Charles Randolph), and two British Academy Film Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s, McKay's The Big Short was the first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, and produced their comedy website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions. He rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. McKay began his career in the 1990s as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live for two seasons and is the co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade. Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian.
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