David Misch is a former comedian, screenwriter (“Mork and Mindy,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The Muppets Take Manhattan”), author (“Funny: The Book,” “A Beginner’s Guide To Corruption”), teacher (his own courses on comedy at USC and musical satire at UCLA) and lecturer at Yale, Columbia, Oxford, the Smithsonian, 92Y (NYC), Raindance Film Festival (London), CineStudio Paris, University of Sydney, VIEW Cinema (Torino, Italy) and San Miguel (Mexico) Writers conferences, Austin Film Festival, American Film Institute, Second City, Midwest Popular Culture Association, and more than 30 JCCs

and lifelong learning programs around the country.