Andy Borowitz

Andy Borowitz writes satire with a scalpel, and I admire it deeply. A Shaker Heights kid turned Harvard man, he brings a sharp, literate wit to everything he touches. People forget he co-created The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air before pivoting to The Borowitz Report, where he skewers current events with deadpan precision. To me, his real gift is exposing the absurd gap between what powerful people say and what they mean, all while making you laugh instead of shout. Winning the National Press Club's first humor award fits perfectly. He represents, for me, the ideal of comedy used as serious commentary.

Name (English)

Andy Borowitz

Name (Japanese)

アンディ・ボロウィッツ

Reading

あんでぃ・ぼろうぃっつ

Born

January 4, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dog

Origin

Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / comedian / writer / journalist / satirist

High school

Shaker Heights High School

University

Harvard College

• Official sitehttps://www.newyorker.com/contributors/andy-borowitz
• Xhttps://x.com/BorowitzReport
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy%20Borowitz
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q520072

Tags

• Ohio
• screenwriter
• comedian
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.