John P. McCann is an American-born writer, actor and producer who has
mostly focused on writing/producing animation and family-friendly
scripts in the past. He is best known for his work on television
cartoons, for which he has received numerous awards, but he has also
produced live-action screenplays and television scripts. At present
McCann is also working on short stories, and a novella. His fiction
tends to be either darkly humorous or horror-related.McCann was
featured on a panel in July 2008 at Comic-Con with other veterans of
Warner Brothers Animation, discussing Tiny Toons, Freakazoid, and
Batman (the panel included Jean MacCurdy, Sherri Stoner, Andrea
Romano, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Paul Rugg).Born in Elmhurst,
Illinois in 1952, McCann grew up with his brother and his sister (Mary
McCann, now a well-known radio DJ in her own right, based in Seattle)
in the Chicago areaâ€"mostly in Skokie. McCann's first memory of
making someone laugh is said to have been in a moment with his father.
He did standup for some years in Illinois, where he met Arsenio Hall
and Jay Leno.McCann moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to become a writer.
Distracted by acting for a while, he worked at two separate comedy
improv groupsâ€" The L.A. Connection and M.D. Sweeney's Acme Comedy
Theater (formerly Two Roads Theater; Sweeney has sold the theater, and
now runs the restaurant and club next door, said to have been an
investment of Acme Alumnus Adam Carolla). Writing comedy skits enabled
him to hone his abilities with dialogue and narrative, and to explore
the way comic timing is affected by the needs of a story: he was no
longer simply throwing out one-liners. He reached the summit of his
acting career, he claims, as a double for Duncan Regehr (as Errol
Flynn) in My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn.
mostly focused on writing/producing animation and family-friendly
scripts in the past. He is best known for his work on television
cartoons, for which he has received numerous awards, but he has also
produced live-action screenplays and television scripts. At present
McCann is also working on short stories, and a novella. His fiction
tends to be either darkly humorous or horror-related.McCann was
featured on a panel in July 2008 at Comic-Con with other veterans of
Warner Brothers Animation, discussing Tiny Toons, Freakazoid, and
Batman (the panel included Jean MacCurdy, Sherri Stoner, Andrea
Romano, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Paul Rugg).Born in Elmhurst,
Illinois in 1952, McCann grew up with his brother and his sister (Mary
McCann, now a well-known radio DJ in her own right, based in Seattle)
in the Chicago areaâ€"mostly in Skokie. McCann's first memory of
making someone laugh is said to have been in a moment with his father.
He did standup for some years in Illinois, where he met Arsenio Hall
and Jay Leno.McCann moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to become a writer.
Distracted by acting for a while, he worked at two separate comedy
improv groupsâ€" The L.A. Connection and M.D. Sweeney's Acme Comedy
Theater (formerly Two Roads Theater; Sweeney has sold the theater, and
now runs the restaurant and club next door, said to have been an
investment of Acme Alumnus Adam Carolla). Writing comedy skits enabled
him to hone his abilities with dialogue and narrative, and to explore
the way comic timing is affected by the needs of a story: he was no
longer simply throwing out one-liners. He reached the summit of his
acting career, he claims, as a double for Duncan Regehr (as Errol
Flynn) in My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn.
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