Spike Feresten Bio-Wiki, Age, Family, Education, Wife, Salary, and Net Worth

This article will answer every question you have about Spike Feresten. Below are some of the frequently asked questions about him.

  1. What does Feresten do for a living?
  2. Who are Feresten’s parents and siblings?
  3. What are Feresten’s interests and hobbies?
  4. Is Feresten married or does he have a girlfriend?
  5. Does Feresten have any children?
  6. Where is Feresten now?
  7. How tall is Feresten?
  8. How much money does Feresten earn?
  9. What is Feresten’s net worth?

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Who is Spike Feresten?

Spike Feresten is an American television writer, screenwriter, comedian, and television personality best known for his work on Seinfeld, writing for David Letterman.

Michael has also hosted the late-night Talkshow with Spike Feresten on Fox from 2006 to 2009. He is now the host of Esquire Network’s series Car Matchmaker with Spike Feresten.

He began his career writing for Saturday Night Live. This is where he first got the nickname “Spike” while working there as a receptionist. According to him, he started writing for the show when Dennis Miller, who was hosting “Weekend Update”, started using jokes that Spike was passing on to him.

Feresten moved from there to the writing staff of Late Night with David Letterman and then later the Late Show with David Letterman. Feresten wrote for cult cartoon spoof talk show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1990. He went on to write for The Dana Carvey Show, this is before getting his big break with The Simpsons and Seinfeld in 1995.

He then wrote one episode for The Simpsons during its seventh season, called “Sideshow Bob’s Last Gleaming”, which aired on November 26, 1995. In the Sideshow Bob, he escapes once again from prison and takes control of a TV screen at an airshow, this demands all television stations immediately going off the air. He has said that while he wrote and was credited for the script, it was then completely rewritten keeping only the basic ideas intact.

How Old is Spike Feresten?

Michael Donovan Feresten, Jr. is 56 years old having been born on September 3, 1964, in Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S. He shares his birthday with other famous people such as Gusttavo Lima, Dominic Thiem, Charlie Sheen, Kaia Jordan Gerber, and Garrett Hedlund.

A photo of Spike Feresten
A photo of Spike Feresten

Spike Feresten Family

Who are Spike Feresten’s parents?

Does Spike Feresten have siblings?

Spike has a brother Wally Feresten, best known for his work on Celebrity Deathmatch. Spike’s secretive nature has shown up in his personal life. He has managed to keep his family background very private. In case there is news regarding his parents and siblings, we shall update it here as soon as possible.

Spike Feresten Education

He attended public schools in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He then attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he also planned to prepare for a career in music.

According to Feresten, while there, he was kicked out of his dormitory for dropping light bulbs out of his eighth story window, before seeing David Letterman perform the same stunt on his show a few weeks later. “I thought, ‘God, he is getting paid. This is what network television pays you to do. Maybe I need to think twice about this music career.'” He dropped out of college in order to attempt a career in television. He worked first as an intern at NBC in New York City before being promoted to receptionist.

Spike Feresten Wife

Feresten is married to Erika Feresten.

Spike Feresten Height

Adding to his well-built body, Feresten stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m).

Spike Feresten Seinfeld

He left the late-night realm to join the writing staff of the hugely successful sitcom Seinfeld during the show’s seventh season in 1995. He stayed there for three seasons until the show’s finale and became a supervising producer in 1998. During his term at Seinfeld, he received three Emmy nominations, including one for his famed “Soup Nazi” episode. It remains part of the pop-culture vernacular.

Spike Feresten Talkshow

He began his own talk-show on Saturday nights on Fox called Talkshow with Spike Feresten in 2006. Originally envisioned as an entertainment news parody, “Talkshow” developed into a mix of traditional talk show segments with sketch elements, fake commercials, field pieces, and pop culture parodies. He then described the show’s format to Variety magazine as being, “all the comedy you’d find in a talk show, but without any of the talk.”

He had notable guests on the show which included Tom Green, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Andy Richter, Tom Arnold, Carl Reiner, Tim Heidecker, Vanilla Ice, and Eric Wareheim. The show ran for three seasons, making it the longest-running late-night television show in the Fox network history. The show had a six-week test run of hour-long episodes airing an hour earlier than usual from January 17, 2009, to February 21, 2009. It came in the wake of the cancellation of MADtv. The show was then canceled in May 2009.

Spike Feresten Salary

Feresten earns greatly as a writer, screenwriter, comedian, and television personality. However, his salary is not yet disclosed.

Spike Feresten Net Worth

The American screenwriter has a net worth estimate of $5 million.

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