After working as a stand-up comedian,[2] Grandy turned to television writing and became a writer on Jon Stewart’sThe Daily Show in 2001. After his Daily Show stint, Grandy became a writer and producer on Saturday Night Live, where he worked until 2008. He worked on the Weekend Update sketch.[1] In the same year, he joined the writing staff of the fifth season of the American version of The Office. At the beginning of the sixth season he became a co-producer and by the time the show entered its seventh season, he had become a supervising producer of the series.[3] After the cancellation of his show, Guys With Kids, he joined his former Office cohort, Mindy Kaling, on the second season of her show, The Mindy Project, as a writer and co-executive producer. In 2018, Grandy and Kaling created the NBC show Champions.[4] He served as an executive producer on Kaling’s 2019 miniseries Four Weddings and a Funeral.[5]
He is an executive producer of The Sex Lives of College Girls, another Kaling production, and is credited with writing two episodes.
Season 1, Episode 9 – “Family (Wo)man” (February 9, 2023)
Season 1, Episode 10 – “The Brains of the Operation” (February 9, 2023)
Season 2, Episode 1 – “The Mystery of Teen Romance” (April 25, 2024)
Season 2, Episode 10 – “Til Death” (April 25, 2024)
Personal life
Grandy married Sage Davis in July 2004.[1] He is the son of actor and politician Fred Grandy and his first wife Jan (née Gough); his parents divorced in 1983. Grandy graduated from Harvard University.[1][6]
Awards and nominations
Grandy has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for The Daily Show and the other for Saturday Night Live.[7] In 2009 he received two Writers Guild of America award nominations, one for the fifth season of The Office and another for writing the episode “Broke“.[8]