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Robert Cohen is a Canadian comedy writer and director. Cohen's writing career has covered many TV formats, from sketch to multi-camera, single-camera and animation. He has also written multiple times for the Academy Awards and Emmy Awards.
Rob is writer and director whose work spans television and features. His credits include "Somebody Somewhere" (Peabody Award winner), "The Ben Stiller Show" (for which he won an Emmy Award), "The Big Bang Theory", "Lady Dynamite", "The Simpsons" and "Muppets Mayhem" (nominated for an Emmy Award).
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Robert Cohen (born 1957) is an American novelist and short fiction writer. Life. Cohen grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He attended UC Berkeley and subsequently received his MFA from Columbia University . Works. Cohen's themes center around issues of contemporary identity and transcendence.
Cohen is a director and producer of commercials and television programs (including, among numerous others, Lady Dynamite (2016), Maron (2013), Twenty Good Years (2006), and On the Spot (2003)). He is also a published author and has created characters for DC Comics' "Legion Of Superheros".
Having lived in the United States for 30 years, working on various comedic television shows and films, including The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, Saturday Night Live and the second and third Austin Powers movies, Cohen has tangled with ignorance towards Canada in all its shapes and forms.
Robert Cohen is the author of six works of fiction. His stories and essays have appeared in Harpers, Paris Review, the Atlantic, the New York Times and elsewhere. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award and a Pushcart Prize.
Jun 30, 2013 · TORONTO — When Calgary-raised comedy writer Robert Cohen was a teen and vacationing with family in Hawaii, the Iran hostage crisis had just ended and local shops were giving Canucks free coffee and doughnuts for Canada’s role in the rescue mission.
