Kevin Kelton

Kevin Kelton
Born	(1956-08-17) August 17, 1956 [1][2] Rockville Centre, New York, US
Alma mater	University at Albany, State University of New York, BS, Business, 1978
Occupation	TV and film screenwriter
Years active	1978–present
Website	www.kevinkelton.com

Kevin Kelton (born in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York) is a television writer-producer whose credits include Saturday Night Live, Night Court, Boy Meets World and other network series. He has also written articles and essays for National Lampoon.^[3] Kelton is the younger brother of the comedian Bobby Kelton,^[4] who appeared regularly on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson during the 1970s and 1980s. Kevin now teaches TV and Film writing for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. He also co-hosts The More Perfect Union podcast.

Television

Kelton's first TV writing job was on the syndicated game show Face the Music.^[4] He quickly segued to sketch comedy, joining the writing staff of the ABC late-night sketch show Fridays!.^[5] He went on to write for a string of sketch comedy series before being hired by Saturday Night Live as a staff writer at the beginning of the 1983–84 season.^[6] Among the sketches he penned for SNL were Jim Belushi as a manic Bobby Knight-style high-school chess coach and Billy Crystal as Prince singing his defiant response to the "We Are the World" video titled "I Am Also the World". He spent two seasons at SNL as a writer. During this time, the writing staff earned an Emmy nomination.^[7]

Credits

• Face the Music – syndicated (staff writer – 1980)^[4]
• Fridays! – ABC (staff writer – 1980)^[5]
• Nashville Palace – NBC (staff writer – 1981)
• Laugh Trax – syndicated (staff writer – 1981–1982)
• Steve Martin's Twilight Theatre – NBC (staff writer – 1982)^[8]
• No Soap, Radio – ABC (staff writer – 1982)^[9]
• The Jeffersons – CBS (story credit) (1983)^[10]
• Saturday Night Live – (staff writer – 1983–1985)^[6]
• Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie – syndicated (staff writer – 1985–1986)^[11]
• The Jay Leno Special – NBC (staff writer – 1986)^[12]
• Women in Prison – FOX (staff writer – 1987–1988)^[13]
• The Van Dyke Show – CBS (Story Editor – 1988)
• Knight & Daye – NBC (Executive Story Editor – 1989)
• A Different World – NBC (Executive Story Editor – 1989–1990)^[14]
• Night Court – NBC (Producer – 1990–1992)^[15]
• Shaky Ground – FOX (Producer – 1992–1993)^[16]
• Townsend Television – FOX (writer – 1994)^[17]
• As Seen on TV (pilot) – F/X (Co-Executive Producer – 1994)
• Boy Meets World – ABC (Producer – 1994–1996)^[15]
• Something So Right – NBC (Supervising Producer – 1996–1997)^[18]
• The Tom Show – WB (Co-Executive Producer – 1997–1998)^[19]
• The Wrong Coast – AMC (Consulting Producer – 2002–1903)^[20]
• National Lampoon (Contributing Writer – 2003–2004)
• Girlfriend Guy web series (Consulting Producer – 2016–2018)

References

External links

• Kevin Kelton on IMDb