Derek Harvie
Writing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Derek Kevin Harvie (born April 7, 1974 in Deep River, Ontario) is a Canadian entertainment writer and producer. Harvie grew up in Ottawa, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film and literature. One of the original creators of The Tom Green Show in its original Canadian community channel run, Harvie continued to write and produce the show on The Comedy Network from 1996 to 1998 and on MTV from 1999 through 2003. In 2001, Harvie co-wrote the film Freddy Got Fingered. His special MTV documentary, The Tom Green Cancer Special, was named by Time Magazine as "one of the ten best TV programs of the year" in 2001. The show was also nominated for a Peabody Award. Harvie has worked briefly on numerous other comedy shows and pilots including WB's The Skateboard Show, VH1's Hollywood Tonight and NBC's Saturday Night Live. From 2004 to 2007 Harvie was the executive producer of Night Calls and all other live programming for Playboy TV. In 2008 Derek Harvie was co-writer, show runner and executive producer of the half-hour sitcom Testees on FX Networks in the US and on Showcase in Canada. The show is about two roommates who test experimental drugs each week and suffer ridiculous side-effects. Both Harvie and co-writer Kenny Hotz received 2009 Gemini Award nominations (Canadian Emmy) for Best Comedy Writing and Best Comedy Series. Testees was also nominated for Best Directing. In 2008 & 2009, Derek Harvie was also a contributing writer for Kenny vs. Spenny which airs on Showcase in Canada and Comedy Central in the US. In 2009 Harvie was show runner & executive producer of the half hour series Pure Pwnage. The show is a comedy about the life of a "pro gamer" and premiered on Showcase in Canada in March 2010. In September 2010, Harvie and show creators Geoff Lapaire and Jarett Cale received a 2010 Gemini Award nomination for Best Comedy Series. Derek Harvie currently lives in New York City where he is working as a writer and co-executive producer of the US version of Skins on MTV Networks. Description above from the Wikipedia article Derek Harvie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
Saturday Night Live
A wild ride through the lives of a group of high school friends stumbling through the mine field of adolescence... and stepping on most of the mines as they go.
Skins
Testees is a Canadian television series, created by Kenny Hotz and written and produced by Kenny Hotz and Derek Harvie. Testees originally aired on Thursdays at 10:30 PM EST on FX and ran from October 9, 2008 to December 18, 2008. and debuted on October 14, 2008 on Showcase in Canada. The show is filmed in Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario. Testees is now showing on FX in the UK, I.Sat in Brazil and Comedy Central in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. After one season, Testees was not renewed by FX.
Testees
Unemployed cartoonist Gord Brody moves back in with his parents Jim and Julie and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he retaliates by spreading rumors that Jim is sexually abusing Freddy.
Freddy Got Fingered
This fictional series purports to chronicle the life and adventures of Jeremy, a Canadian and self-proclaimed "pro gamer".
Pure Pwnage
Max Graham and his group of friends run a start-up out of his parent's garage.
Bajillionaires
Jeremy is a leet gamer, but he still lives in his mom’s basement. His n00b brother Kyle, an aspiring filmmaker, documents Jeremy’s life as he is forced to get off his ass and get a "real" job.
Pure Pwnage
The Tom Green Show is a North American television show, created by and starring Canadian comedian Tom Green, that first aired in September 1994. The series aired on Rogers Television 22, a community channel in Ottawa, Ontario, until 1996.
The Tom Green Show
Part documentary, part sketch comedy, part true-life drama, this short film follows Tom Green's real life cancer scare and subsequent removal of one of his testicles, which is shown in its entirety.
The Tom Green Cancer Special
Tom Green's newest video will leave you feeling like a crash test dummy after a hard day at the office. It's comedy that comes out of the showroom with no options, no safety standards and all kinds of unhealthy emissions. It will drive you crazy!
Tom Green Show: Road Kill
Featuring memorable moments from the widely popular "Tom Green Show," this off-color compilation showcases Tom playing pranks on his parents, dressing up in drag, singing to his friend's buttocks and surprising unsuspecting museum patrons.
Endangered Feces - The Very Worst of The Tom Green Show
Tom Green is a comedian who likes to go around and pull pranks on everybody. Among his most famous is putting a cowhead in his parent's bed, suckling a cow's udder, throwing plastic babies onto cars...etc. The show is half talk show and half documentary.
The Best of MTV's The Tom Green Show
Spanked onto this program is the outrageous best of Tom Green's early years! Armed with a camera and a complete lack of inhibition, Green developed his own brand of "Street Theatre of the Absurd." Along with Glenn Humplik, whom he met while spinning his web of wackiness on a college radio station, Green's no-budget show built a cult following that went national on Canada's Comedy Network in 1997 and then went North American on MTV in 1999.
The Tom Green Show: Early Exposure - Raw Meat and Rare Treats
Jenna's American Sex Star is an adult pay-per-view reality television series hosted by Jenna Jameson on Playboy TV. In each episode, four contestants compete in a series of sexual performances for the judges and viewers then vote for their favorite performer on Playboy.com. Winners win an exclusive contract with Jameson's movie studio ClubJenna. Season 1 judges included Christy Canyon, Ron Jeremy, and Jim Powers. Season 2 judges included Jim Powers, Jenna Lewis, and Jay Grdina. The judges will eliminate two contestants and then viewers will vote for who should move on to the finals. Playboy TV's Andrea Lowell appears on season 2 as the Envelope presenter when girls are to be eliminated, or winners announced. Season 1 winner, Brea Bennett announced in an August 2007 interview that she had left Club Jenna. Season 2 winner, Roxy Jezel, stopped working with Club Jenna after one year, and stated that she planned to retire in August 2009.