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Konstantinos Pollux Alexandros "Dino" Stamatopoulos (born December 14, 1964)[1] is an American writer, producer, and actor. He has worked on TV programs such as Mr. Show, TV Funhouse, Mad TV, The Dana Carvey Show, Late Show with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He has also created multiple animated TV shows such as Moral Orel, Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, and High School USA!. As an actor, he is best known for his recurring role as the character Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne on the NBC comedy series Community, on which he also worked as a producer and consulting writer.

Dino Stamatopoulos
Stamatopoulos in 2016
Born	Konstantinos Pollux Alexandros Stamatopoulos (1964-12-14) December 14, 1964 (age 57) Norridge, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Writer, producer, actor
Period	1992–present
Genre	Satire, black comedy
Notable works	Late Night with Conan O'Brien The Ben Stiller Show Mr. Show TV Funhouse Mad TV Moral Orel The Drinky Crow Show Mary Shelley's Frankenhole High School USA! Community
Notable awards	Emmy Awards Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program 1993 The Ben Stiller Show
Children	1

Early life

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Stamatopoulos was born into a Greek-American family in Norridge, Illinois as Konstantinos Pollux Alexandros Stamatopoulos. [1] He attended Ridgewood High School in Norridge,[2] where he wrote for his school variety show and was astounded that he could get laughs with the material he had written. While attending Columbia College Chicago, he performed a duo act with comedian Andy Dick, in which Stamatopoulos played a ventriloquist and Dick played a dummy under the influence of sleeping pills.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Stamatopoulos was hired on The Ben Stiller Show after Andy Dick convinced him to submit a spec script for a Simpsons episode. There, he met and worked with Bob Odenkirk. After Stiller's show was canceled, he moved to New York City, where he wrote during the 1990s for The Dana Carvey Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien (also with Odenkirk), Late Show with David Letterman, and Mr. Show with Bob and David.

In 2000 Stamatopoulos and Robert Smigel pitched Comedy Central a spin-off of Smigel's TV Funhouse cartoons (which were appearing singly as animated shorts on Saturday Night Live episodes) as a half-hour sketch comedy show. The standalone TV Funhouse show premiered in 2000 but was canceled after one season. He later joined the writing staff on Mad TV.

Stamatopoulos worked as a creative consultant and contributing writer on the first season of Tom Goes to the Mayor, with Tim & Eric and Bob Odenkirk. He also provided the voice of Drinky Crow on The Drinky Crow Show, which aired for one season on Adult Swim. His stop motion animated series Moral Orel premiered on Adult Swim on Christmas 2005 and aired for three seasons, airing its final episode in December 2008; a follow-up special aired in 2012. Following Moral Orel, Stamatopoulos created Mary Shelley's Frankenhole, a stop motion series, for Adult Swim. It ran for two seasons from 2010 to 2012.[3]

Stamatopoulos was a writer and producer on the 2009 NBC sitcom Community. He also played the recurring role of Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne, a character whose nickname derived from his large star-shaped sideburns and his tendency to define himself by them. Together with Community creator Dan Harmon, Stamatopoulos started production company Starburns Industries.

A long-time fan of radio personality Steve Dahl, Stamatopoulos hosted a podcast, Sorry About Everything, from May 2012 until June 2013 on Dahl's Steve Dahl Network.[4]

Stamatopoulos and friend Andy Dick hosted a weekly podcast, Dino and Andy's Skull Juice, which premiered in late 2016 and was initially produced by Feral Audio.[5] Due to an on-air incident of hostility in mid-2018, Dick was asked to leave the podcast^{[citation needed]}. Stamatopoulos asked friend and recurring guest Dana Snyder to replace Dick as co-host, and the podcast was renamed Dino & Dana's Safe Space. Additional co-hosts Laetitia "Tish" Burns and Spencer Crittenden were also given billing in the podcast.[6]

Personal life

Stamatopoulos was married and has one daughter.[2] He is a vocalist and guitarist in a rock band called Sorry About Everything.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Producer	Writer	Actor	Role	Notes
1996	Breathing Room	No	No	Yes	Jersey Rocker	Live-action feature film
2002	The Master of Disguise	Co-producer	No	No	—
2014	Harmontown	Executive	No	No	—	Documentary film
2015	Anomalisa	Yes	No	No	—	Animated feature film
2021	The Black Hole	Executive	Yes	Yes	Voice actor	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Writer	Actor	Producer	Creator	Director	Role	Notes
1992–1993	The Ben Stiller Show	Yes (12)	Yes (1)	No	No	No	Waiter #2	Sketch Comedy series
1993–1999	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Yes (540)	Yes (2)	No	No	No	Tomorry the Ostrich Kiss-Ass Turkey Abe Lincoln Various characters	Late night talk show
1996	The Dana Carvey Show	Yes	Yes (3)	No	No	No	Guy in Nixon Mask Wazir Brother Gas Station Attendant	Sketch Comedy Series
1996–1997	Late Show with David Letterman	Yes (131)	No	No	No	No	—	Late Night Talk Show
1996–1998	Mr. Show with Bob and David	Yes (21)	Yes (13)	Yes (10)	No	No	Various characters	Sketch Comedy Series; Also producer for 9 episodes and consulting producer for 1 episode
1996–2006	Saturday Night Live	Yes (1)	Yes (4)	No	No	No	Michael Jackson (voice)	Sketch Comedy series
2000–2001	TV Funhouse	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Chickey Mr. Whiskers Various characters
2002–2004	Mad TV	Yes (50)	No	No	No	No	—
2004–2005	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Yes	No	No	No	No	—	Animated series; Also creative consultant
2005–2008	Moral Orel	Yes (37)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes (8)	Various characters	Animated series
2006	Lucky Louie	Yes (1)	No	No	No	No	—	TV Sitcom
2008-2009	The Drinky Crow Show	No	Yes	No	No	No	Drinky Crow, Lieutenant Vronchy	Animated series
2009	Important Things with Demetri Martin	Yes (1)	No	No	No	No	—	Sketch Comedy series
2009–2015	Community	Yes (2)	Yes (39)	Consulting producer (37)	No	No	Alex "Star-Burns" Osbourne	TV Sitcom; Also consulting writer for 24 episodes
2010–2017	Mary Shelley's Frankenhole	Yes (9)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Death The Mummy Mother Teresa Additional voices	Animated series
2013	High School USA!	Yes	Yes	Yes (10)	Yes	No	Mr. Merriweather
2015	The Jack and Triumph Show	Yes (1)	No	Yes (5)	No	No	—	TV Sitcom
	W/ Bob & David	Yes (4)	Yes (1)	Co-executive producer (5)	No	No	Chuck	Sketch Comedy Series
2016	Horace and Pete	No	No	Co-executive producer	No	No	—	Web series
	Great Minds with Dan Harmon	No	No	Yes (1)	No	No	—	Comedy series; Also consulting producer for 10 episodes

References

External links

• Dino Stamatopoulos at IMDb
• Dino Stamatopoulos on Twitter
• TV Squad interview with Dino Stamatopoulos

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Константи́нос «Ди́но» Стамато́пулос (греч. Κωνσταντίνος «Ντίνος» Σταματόπουλος, англ. Konstantinos «Dino» Stamatopoulos; род. 14 декабря 1964, Норридж, Иллинойс, США)[2] — американский сценарист, продюсер, актёр и комик. Лауреат прайм-таймовой премии «Эмми» (1993) и премии Гильдии сценаристов США (1997). Номинировался на прайм-таймовую премию «Эмми» (1996, 1998, 1999), а также премии Гильдии сценаристов США (2003, 2004), «Энни» (2012) и «Независимый дух» (2016).

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