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David Sheffield (born 1948) is an American comedy writer best known for his writing on Saturday Night Live and the screenplays for Coming to America, Coming 2 America, and The Nutty Professor all written in collaboration with Barry W. Blaustein.
David Sheffield is known as an Screenplay, Actor, Story, Writer, and Co-Producer. Some of his work includes Coming to America, The Nutty Professor, Coming 2 America, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Boomerang, and The Honeymooners.
Jun 20, 2018 · David Sheffield, one of the film's screenwriters, said Murphy, 57, came up with the concept, which he had scribbled out on eight to 10 pages of a yellow legal pad. A year before the film was released, Murphy had signed a five-picture deal with Paramount, estimated in the millions, but the studio had yet to settle on a summer film.
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Nov 20, 2020 · By his own admission, David Sheffield has the dubious distinction of co-writing the worst sketch on one of the worst-ever episodes of Saturday Night Live.
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David Sheffield is known for Boomerang (1992), The Nutty Professor (1996) and Coming to America (1988).
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Aug 5, 2022 · Learn about David Sheffield, a Mississippi native who wrote for SNL and Eddie Murphy movies. He also wrote a play inspired by his experience as a hotel manager in Oxford.
David Sheffield, a University of Mississippi alumnus who went on to write for “Saturday Night Live” and several Eddie Murphy movies, has taken to the stage with “The Heartbreak Henry,” a comedy based on his experiences as manager of an Oxford flophouse hotel in 1967.
