Adam McKay Movies and Career Information

Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American writer, director, actor and comedian. He is most famous for his partnership with comedic actor Will Ferrell, with whom he directed the films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. McKay was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1986, and attended Penn State and Temple universities. He is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade improv comedy group and a former performer at Chicago's ImprovOlympic theater, where he was a member of the seminal improv group The Family, whose members included Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, Neil Flynn and Miles Stroth, and Child's Play Touring Theatre. While a member of the mainstage cast at Second City, he wrote and performed in that company's landmark revue, Pinata Full of Bees. In several politically charged sketches, McKay played characters like Noam Chomsky as a substitute kindergarten teacher, and a hapless personnel manager trying to inform a corporate vice president (Scott Adsit) of some disastrous IQ test results without losing his own job. The latter performance was excerpted in Second City's 40th