# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wayne-federman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:51:57.231Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wayne-federman"
name: "Wayne Federman"
slug: "wayne-federman"
description: "Wayne Federman is an American comedian, actor, author, writer, comedy historian, producer, and musician. He performs in numerous stand-up comedy appearances in clubs, theaters, and on television; wrote a book, The History of Stand-Up; and has had supporting comedic acting roles in The X-Files, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Silicon Valley, Legally Blonde, 50 First Dates, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Step Brothers. He was the head monologue writer for NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in its first season. He won a 2022 Primetime Emmy Award for producing the HBO documentary George Carlin's American Dream."
tagline: "American comedian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Waynefederman1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.07
  momentum:             4.460403029136183
  historical:           9.297236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 76
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270139/"
    handle:    "nm0270139"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "واين فيدرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%95%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%81%DB%8E%D8%AF%DB%95%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "وەیین فێدەرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Federman"
    title: "Wayne Federman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Federman"
    title: "Wayne Federman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Federman"
    title: "Wayne Federman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ויין פדרמן"
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    title: "웨인 페더먼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Wayne Federman"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump