About Stangel Brothers

The Stangels got their start in television in 1995 writing jokes for Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update for 2 seasons.

In 1997 they got their dream job, being hired as Staff Writers for Late Show with David Letterman. They were quickly elevated to Head Writers in 2000 and Executive Producers in 2001. They served as the longest tenured Head Writers in Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman history.

In 2008 the Late Show writers released the book “Late Show Fun Facts” published by Hyperion.

In 2012, Eric and Justin wrote an Ippy Award winning book, “Goodnight Husband, Goodnight Wife.” Dr. John and Lois Stangel, their parents, bought like 200 copies.

Also that year they wrote for Billy Crystal for “The 84th Annual Academy Awards.” 

After 17 years at Letterman, the Stangels consulted and produced programming for the comedy channels at SiriusXM Satellite Radio. 

In 2015, The Stangel Brothers sold a multicamera comedy starring Harry Connick Jr. to Fox. 

In 2016, Eric and Justin co-created and Executive Produced Fox’s nationally syndicated Emmy award winning daytime variety show Harry, starring Harry Connick, Jr. The show ran for  two seasons/almost 300 episodes.

Recently they have sold an animated comedy to Fox called “Lyle & Caroline” starring Lisa Kudrow and a single camera comedy to TBS called “Final Wishes” with “Big Bang Theory” Executive Producer Bill Prady. 

Eric and Justin, while having no athletic ability, have also signed one-day contracts with 13 minor league baseball teams and a minor league hockey team. 

The Stangels have won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards (Very impressive) but have lost 44 Emmys (Equally impressive).