Streeter Seidell (born December 2, 1982) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and TV host. Seidell was part of the cast of CollegeHumor's online sketches. His video series Prank Wars garnered tens of millions of views and a large amount of mainstream television attention all over the world, which eventually led to a TV-series called Pranked on MTV with fellow CollegeHumor editor, Amir Blumenfeld.
Starting in 2013, Seidell began writing for the ABC sitcom Trophy Wife. In 2014, Seidell joined the writing staff of the longstanding NBC variety show Saturday Night Live, where he acted as a writing supervisor.
Seidell was hired as a writer by Saturday Night Live in 2014 and promoted to supervising writer in 2017. His writing partner on SNL is Mikey Day. Sketches of note include the "Close Encounter" series with Kate McKinnon, the "Poolboy" series with Pete Davidson and "Haunted Elevator (ft. David S. Pumpkins)" with Tom Hanks. He was named head writer in 2022, in the second half of season 47.
Seidell and Day have two projects in development for Disney with one already released. A sixth film in the Home Alone franchise titled Home Sweet Home Alone was released exclusively on Disney+ on November 12, 2021. A live-action Inspector Gadget film is in pre-production, as well as a SpaceCamp remake produced by Walt Disney Pictures is also planned.
SNL Career[]
- 2014-present: Writer
- 2017-2021: Writing Supervisor (last episode: December 18, 2021)
- 2022-present: Head Writer (first episode: January 15, 2022)