Sam Seder

Samuel Lincoln "Sam" Seder (born November 28, 1966) is a comedian, writer, actor, film director, television producer-director, and progressive talk radio host. His works include the film "Who's the Caboose?" (1997) starring Sarah Silverman and Seder, as well as the television shows "Beat Cops" (2001) and "Pilot Season" (2004). He also appeared in "Next Stop Wonderland" (1998). Seder also made guest appearances on "Spin City" (1997), "Sex and the City" (2000) and "America Undercover" (2005).

Works

Have I Got News for You

Host Roy Wood Jr. and team captains Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black serve up a smart take on the news of the week and guide guests through comic games and panels that test their knowledge of current events.

Release Date: 2024-09-14

Character: Self

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

The Bob's Burgers Movie

When a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob's Burgers, it blocks the entrance indefinitely and ruins the Belchers’ plans for a successful summer. While Bob and Linda struggle to keep the business afloat, the kids try to solve a mystery that could save their family's restaurant. As the dangers mount, these underdogs help each other find hope and fight to get back behind the counter, where they belong.

Release Date: 2022-05-26

Character: Hugo (voice)

Vote Count: 320

Fits and Starts

A struggling writer can't seem to escape his wife's literary success. When a road trip to a publisher's salon takes an unexpected turn, he has to face his own creative shortcomings and find a way to regain control of his life and work.

Release Date: 2017-03-10

Character: Officer Dressler

Vote Count: 8

The Good Fight

Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart's savings. Forced out of her law firm, now called "Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates", they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago's preeminent law firms.

Release Date: 2017-02-19

Character: Vaughn Yenko

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 304

Bob's Burgers

Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his quirky family have big ideas about burgers, but fall short on service and sophistication. Despite the greasy counters, lousy location and a dearth of customers, Bob and his family are determined to make Bob's Burgers "grand re-re-re-opening" a success.

Release Date: 2011-01-09

Character: Hugo (voice)

Episode Count: 13

Vote Count: 986

A Bad Situationist

It is May 2001 in a pre-9/11 world. Arthur Lieberman, a ne'er-do-well tennis instructor from West Palm Beach, is the son of losing Vice-President candidate Joe Lieberman. Arthur is so crazy that six months later he is still upset over the fraudulent 2000 presidential election. in an attempt to keep from "making waves" his father strikes a corrupt deal to land him in a fancy co-op apartment in New York City. Arthur's desperation for relevance and burning desire to appear on the Charlie Rose Show lead him to start an "Intellectual Salon". There, Arthur pleads with misfits, sluts, and drunks to vote him president of their group. Soon, Arthur is unwittingly inculcated by two radical Jewish zealot Postal workers to commit a terrorist attack. Hilarity ensues!

Release Date: 2008-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Arthur Lieberman

Vote Count: 1

Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil

Lucy is the 21 year old daughter of Satan in this dark comedy.

Release Date: 2005-10-30

Character: Special Father #2 (voice)

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 21

Left of the Dial

A documentary look at the troubled first year of liberal talk radio start up Air America and its slate of hosts, including Al Franken, Rachel Maddow, and Marc Maron.

Release Date: 2005-03-31

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Wonder Showzen

Wonder Showzen is an American sketch comedy television series that aired between 2005 and 2006 on MTV2. It was created by John Lee and Vernon Chatman of PFFR. The show is rated TV-MA. The show's format is that of educational PBS children's television shows such as Sesame Street and The Electric Company, parodying the format with adult-oriented content. In addition to general controversial comedy, it satirizes politics, religion, war, sex, and culture with black comedy. Every episode begins with a disclaimer, accompanied by the sound of someone screaming "Don't eat my baby!", which reads: "Wonder Showzen contains offensive, despicable content that is too controversial and too awesome for actual children. The stark, ugly and profound truths Wonder Showzen exposes may be soul-crushing to the weak of spirit. If you allow a child to watch this show, you are a bad parent or guardian."

Release Date: 2005-03-11

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 44

Pilot Season

Pilot Season is a television miniseries written by Charles Fisher and Sam Seder, directed by Seder, and starring Sarah Silverman. The show followed on from the 1997 film Who's the Caboose?, which was also written by Fisher and Seder and again stars Silverman as Susan Underman and was broadcast in 2004 on the now-defunct Trio cable network

Release Date: 2004-09-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Max Rabin

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 4

O'Grady

O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams and developed for TV by co-star Holly Schlesinger. It was the first original animated series for Noggin's teen block, The N. The show stars Melissa Bardin Galsky and H. Jon Benjamin, among other Soup2nuts Productions alumni, as high school students Abby and Kevin, and chronicles their lives along with those of other residents of O'Grady, a fictional town which is periodically plagued by "The Weirdness." The Weirdness affects its residents in strange ways such as projecting their private thoughts in bubbles over their heads, or producing clones of themselves every time they get angry. The random changes in the show's logo explains the plot.

Release Date: 2004-07-30

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Beat Cops

A pilot about a pair of slacker beat cops that Conan O'Brien produced for Fox.

Release Date: 2003-09-01

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Character: Stan

Hey Monie!

Hey Monie! is an animated American black sitcom produced by Soup2Nuts. Originally part of the series X-Chromosome, Hey Monie! aired on Black Entertainment Television and, afterward, on the Oxygen Network in 2003. The series aired on The N from April 19, 2004 until April 25, 2004, only to be removed a month later. Its main character, Simone, works at a public relations agency in Chicago. She lives in an apartment building with her best friend Yvette. The show chronicles her life living as a single career woman in the big city. The series' voice talent included the Frangela duo; Angela V. Shelton as Monie and Frances Callier as Yvette, Melissa Bardin Galsky and Brendon Small.

Release Date: 2003-03-04

Episode Count: 25

Vote Count: 2

Yakkity Yak

Yakkity Yak is an Australian/American/Canadian animated television series created by Mark Gravas that ran on Nickelodeon from November 9, 2002 to December 12, 2003. The show was known for its extreme lack of reality, and for its extreme silliness and featured a style of animation which broke with past Nickelodeon tradition. The show features an anthropomorphic yak named Yakkity who wants to make it to stardom by becoming a comedian. Along the way, he has adventures with his two best friends Keo and Lemony, a young human girl.

Release Date: 2002-11-09

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Next Stop Wonderland

Dumped by her loser boyfriend, Erin's love life hits rock bottom when her overbearing mother places an embarrassing ad in the "personals" section of a local newspaper on her behalf. Erin's disgust turns to curiosity as she searches for the right guy in a hilarious series of disastrous dates. Meanwhile, a lonely ex-plumber named Alan clumsily searches for his dream job while narrowly missing one chance meeting with Erin after another.

Release Date: 1998-08-21

Character: Kevin Monteiro

Vote Count: 85

Who's the Caboose?

A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to follow her as she makes the circuit of auditions in L.A. as she tries to get a TV pilot. Unfortunately, she has failed to tell her boyfriend of this move. He decides he will trail her out west. There, the boyfriend runs into an old friend who has already made a break on a TV pilot. Seizing the opportunity, the actress turns her attentions to the established actor. However, the actress goes nowhere in auditions, but her ex-boyfriend is suddenly noticed and becomes the next hot prospect.

Release Date: 1997-04-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Character: Max

Vote Count: 8

Red State

The film follows the director into America's red states (those with predominantly Republican voters) to find out why so many Americans chose to re-elect President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential elections.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Saddle Rash

Armless gunslinger Slim (Sam Seder) comes to town seeking revenge against bank robber Tommy Morgan (H. Jon Benjamin). Assisted by the town's resident sidekick Gummy (H. Jon Benjamin), Slim makes his intentions known to Morgan's gang which leads to a showdown in the center of town.

Release Date: 2002-03-24

Character: Slim (voice)

Vote Count: 2

Saddle Rash

Saddle Rash is a canceled comedy animated series. The pilot episode was featured on March 24, 2002 on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming block. Saddle Rash was created by Loren Bouchard, co-creator of Home Movies. It uses the same low-budget Flash animation technique found in seasons two and up of Home Movies.

Release Date: 2002-03-24

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Happy Accidents

A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary New York City where past and future experiences of trust, commitment and denial are cleverly put to the test. Just as Ruby is beginning to relish her first-ever healthy relationship, Sam begins muttering about being a time traveler from the year 2470.

Release Date: 2000-01-25

Character: Ned

Vote Count: 134

Home Movies

TV series about the life of Brendon Small, an eight-year-old visionary who, using his friends Jason and Melissa as actors, have managed to direct over a thousand homemade films. His parents are divorced, but it doesn't feel strange since so many other kids' parents are divorced. His friend Jason actually feels upset because his parents are still together. At school, he is taught soccer by his coach John McGuirk, or as he calls him, "that weird Irish guy".

Release Date: 1999-04-26

Episode Count: 11

Vote Count: 100

Sex and the City

Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.

Release Date: 1998-06-06

Character: Lew

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2057

The Big Fall

L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.

Release Date: 1997-10-14

Character: Gary Snider

Vote Count: 5

Pulp Comics

Pulp Comics is a television show that aired on Comedy Central from 1996–2000. The show features stand-up comedians performing their acts, interspersed with original short films related to their rantings.

Release Date: 1996-10-09

Character: Seth the Jew

Episode Count: 1

Spin City

Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.

Release Date: 1996-09-17

Character: Bogus Temp

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 302

The Show

Release Date: 1996-03-17

Episode Count: 8

All-American Girl

All-American Girl is a 1994 ABC situation comedy starring Margaret Cho and featuring Jodi Long, Clyde Kusatsu, Amy Hill, B.D. Wong, and J.B. Quon as her Korean-American family. It is the second American sitcom centered on a person of Asian descent, namely Cho. Notable guest stars during the run of the show include Oprah Winfrey, Jack Black, David Cross, Ming-Na, Vicki Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, Tsai Chin, Mariska Hargitay, Billy Burke, Robert Clohessy and Garrett Wang. Diedrich Bader was a one time regular in the last episode of All American Girl, which was a pseudo pilot for a proposed but unrealized version of All American Girl, before achieving fame on The Drew Carey Show. On the DVD commentary for the series, Margaret Cho revealed that most of All American Girl's set furniture was reused by The Drew Carey Show.

Release Date: 1994-09-14

Character: Phil

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2