Everything about Bruce Vilanch totally explained
Bruce Vilanch (born
November 23,
1948) is an
American comedy writer who caught the public eye when he became a wisecracking regular on the revamped
Hollywood Squares with
Whoopi Goldberg.
Vilanch attended
Ohio State University as a theater and
journalism student and graduated with a
BFA in theatre in
1970. In 1978 he was one of the writers for
The Star Wars Holiday Special. In the 1980s he'd a few brief television acting appearance including a bit part in an episode of
Bosom Buddies. His first television appearance as himself was in
1988 on
Hollywood Today, where he was interviewed by
Chris Aable. The show aired in 43 cities on Century Cable and the Manhattan Neighborhood Cable Network.
Vilanch is openly
gay, and "a notorious meat eater". He has a penchant for wearing wacky T-shirts.
He has provided topical joke material for a number of awards show hosts, notably
Billy Crystal at the
Academy Awards. He commands high fees for emergency
Hollywood script rewrites, having "punched up" scripts for films like
Die Hard 2 and
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Vilanch has a musical comedy background (he co-wrote the book for the flop
Platinum and contributed to far more successful concert shows starring
Bette Midler,
Diana Ross, and
Michael Feinstein) and claims to have done every
Stubby Kaye role ever written. In
2005, he starred on
Broadway as Edna Turnblad in the musical
Hairspray after originating the role in the First National tour. He was on the third edition of
Celebrity Fit Club and lost 21 pounds over the course of the show.
Vilanch has been the subject of two documentaries:
Get Bruce (1999) and
Laughing Matters...The Men, also released as
Laughing Matters: Gay Comedy in America (2007), where he shared the spotlight with Alec Mapa, Bob Smith and others.
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