Roy Teicher (b. 1958) is an Actor, Producer and Screenwriter who with writing partner Richard Rosenstock, wrote two episodes of the show in Season 4.
Biography[]
Teicher went to prep school in New York and then to NYU, where he dropped out[1], moving to Hollywood to begin a 15 year career in television. [2]
But comedy writing left him unsatisfied, so he turned his attention to journalism, writing a humor column for The Los Angeles Times. But wanting to be a real reporter who covered local news, he struck out again. At 37, he got his first job as a reporter for $25 a week, for The Kansas City Kansan as an education reporter.[3]
The college dropout recalled, "There could not be anyone less qualified," he said. "I thought a superintendent was someone who fixed the pipes in the apartment building." He spent six years with The Kansas City Kansan newspaper, first as a reporter and then as managing editor.
In 2004, he became press secretary to Peter Deutsch, a Democratic congressman who was running for Senate and was an old friend of Teicher's from their days in prep school together.[1]
Later in 2006 he acted as Press Secretary to Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Patty Wetterling in Minnesota [4] and in 2010 Andrew Romanoff, the Democratic Senate challenger in Colorado. [5]
Career[]
Roy Teicher's first writing credit began with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1978), At 19, Teicher was the youngest writer ever hired by "The Tonight Show." where his biggest memory was the competition between writers to get Johnny Carson to use their jokes.
He wrote episodes for the TV Series The Bad News Bears (1979), Oh Madeline (1983-1984), Comedy Factory (1986) and Webster (1988).
He also acted in the Mini Series - Brothers and Sisters (1979) along with writing 2 episodes, and acting as story editor on another.
Further story editing came on the short lived Goodtime Girls (1980) and as a story consultant on an episode of The New Odd Couple (1982) and executive script consultant on an episode of Joanie Loves Chachi (1982).
In addition he was Supervising Producer on Madeline Khan's sitcom Oh Madeline (1983-1984), moving on to producing Newhart (1984) and the Comedy Factory (1986)
Mork & Mindy[]
Roy worked as executive script consultant on all 22 episodes of Season 4 of Mork & Mindy, and along with Richard Rosenstock wrote two episodes, including the episode that brought about Mearth's birth.