David Mandel

David Hiram Mandel is an executive producer and showrunner of Veep and formerly an executive producer and director of Curb Your Enthusiasmand Seinfeld. He is also a comedian, and one of the producer-directors of the teen-comedy Eurotrip. He was a writer for Seinfeld during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons and also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2003 film adaptation of The Cat In The Hat. He is one of the creators of Clerks: The Animated Series, and he was a writer for Saturday Night Live. He had a brief stint as a host of Dave and Steve's Video Game Explosion, a comedy video game review show that aired late nights on TBS as part of the Burly Bear Network. The show only lasted a few episodes before the entire block was canceled.