Jonathan Groff (writer)


Jonathan Groff is a writer and comedian.
Groff graduated from Brown University in 1983, initially pursuing a career in stand-up comedy before transitioning to television writing. He wrote for The Jon Stewart Show and Short Attention Span Theater, hosted by Stewart and, later, Marc Maron. Groff was the head writer at Late Night with Conan O'Brien in the late 1990s. After leaving Late Night, Groff developed Father of the Pride with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Subsequently he was the showrunner for Andy Barker, P.I., co-created with O'Brien. More recently he has worked on Black-ish and as co-showrunner on Happy Endings.