Fred began work as a standup comedian in the early days of the comic boom in Los Angeles and started submitting jokes to Johnny Carson Joan Rivers and many others which propelled him from performing into writing After a series of TV writing assignments Freds big break came when he was asked to be a staff writer for SNL in the 90s His success there spring boarded into a series of plum movie writing jobs and after SNL restructured their staff they asked Fred to come back as the headwriter and featured player Since then Fred has been the key writer or secondary writer in 4 1intheboxoffice movies and has started writing and directing feature films