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David Adam Javerbaum/ˈdʒævərˌbɔːm/ (born 1971) is an American comedy writer and lyricist. Javerbaum has won 13 Emmy Awards in his career, 11 of them for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He runs the popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod, which at its peak had 6.2 million followers. The account was the basis for his play An Act of God, which opened on Broadway in the spring of 2015 starring Jim Parsons, and again in the spring of 2016 starring Sean Hayes.[1] The play has gone on to receive over 100 productions in 20 countries and 11 languages.
Javerbaum's other work includes serving as head writer and supervising producer for both Comedy Central's first-ever Comedy Awards and The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012, writing and producing the original musical-comedy pilot Browsers for Amazon in 2013, and writing three episodes for the 2011 relaunch of Beavis and Butt-Head. He wrote for the Late Show with David Letterman from 1998 to 1999.
Books
In addition to co-writing the two Daily Show books he is the sole author of three: the 2009 pregnancy satire What to Expect When You're Expected: A Fetus's Guide to the First Three Trimesters; 2011's The Last Testament: A Memoir by God, in conjunction with which he created @TheTweetOfGod; and, also as "God", The Book of Pslams: 97 Divine Diatribes on Humanity's Total Failure, which was published in April 2022 by Simon & Schuster. He also co-authored Neil Patrick Harris's 2014 memoir, The Choose Your Own Autobiography of Neil Patrick Harris.
Javerbaum graduated from Harvard University. While there, he wrote for the humor magazine The Harvard Lampoon and served as lyricist and co-bookwriter for two productions of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Later he spent three years contributing headlines to The Onion, and is credited as one of the writers for its first book, 1998's Our Dumb Century.
"A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney," his humorous essay written for The New York Times, appeared in April 2012.[3]
Awards
Along with composer/co-librettist Robert S. Cohen, he wrote Suburb,[4] which was nominated for Outer Critics' Circle and Drama League awards for Best Off-Broadway Musical in 2001.
Personal life
Javerbaum is the son of Tema and Kenneth S. Javerbaum of Watchung, New Jersey. His mother is a former deputy New Jersey attorney general. His father is a founding partner in Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins P.C., a law firm in Springfield, New Jersey. Javerbaum grew up in a Jewish household, attending Congregation Beth El in South Orange, New Jersey.[5] He married Debra Bard in 2002.[6] Javerbaum grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey,[7] where he attended Columbia High School, graduating in 1989.[8]
^Meoli, Daria. "That’s Entertainment"Archived December 14, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Monthly, October 2005. Accessed December 26. "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is still the best fake newscast on TV, thanks to Lawrenceville native Stewart and head writer and Maplewood native David Javerbaum."
