Mathew Klickstein
Klickstein was the writer of the 2009 American horror film Against the Dark, starring Steven Seagal and served as a casting producer on Food Network's Restaurant: Impossible from 2013 until the series ended in 2016.Guests have included Diablo Cody, Alex Winter, Mike Reiss, Missy Suicide, Adam Bradley, and John Park, co-creator of the fictional Flo (Progressive) Insurance spokeswoman.The final piece, titled Ladies of the Fly, was performed by the girls involved in the writing process and opened at Cider Gallery in Lawrence, Kansas, on August 26, 2016.The children performed their series of interconnected monologues telling a full story of monsters, space travel, and science experiments going awry in early June 2022.[27] As a pop culture historian, Klickstein has contributed to numerous online and print articles such as those published by Slate, Thrillist, Sports Illustrated, and The Ringer as well as TMZ Presents and WGN Radio.[28][29][30][31][32][33] Klickstein co-authored Emmy Award-winning comedy writer Mike Reiss' memoir, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons, published by HarperCollins imprint Dey Street in June 2018.Skin: 20 Years of Nip Slips, Cheek Peeks, and Fast-Forwarding to the Good Parts[43] about the unlikely pop culture icon and creator of one of the first-ever commercially successful websites, Jim "Mr.As associate producer, Klickstein worked with McBride on his documentary Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies, which came out August 18, 2020[44] and features interviews with such cinema icons as Amy Heckerling, Pam Grier, Malcolm McDowell, John Cameron Mitchell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Roeper, Kevin Smith, Peter Bogdanovich and Mamie Van Doren.[45] The Washington Post wrote of the novel, "Klickstein ... delivers a searing critique of geek culture and the trouble with indulging nostalgia at the expense of reckoning with reality.The trade paperback edition of all five issues collected as a graphic novel was originally slated for release April 8, 2020,[50] but was postponed due to complications resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic until June 17, 2020, after which Klickstein traveled on a six-state promotional tour to comic book shops around the Midwest area."[55] Klickstein worked with alt-comedy pioneer Beth Lapides on the Recorded Books audiobook original So You Need to Decide, with such special guest contributors as: Bob Odenkirk, Margaret Cho, Judy Gold, Sandra Bernhard, Phoebe Bridgers, Julia Sweeney, Dana Gould, and The Queen's Gambit creator Scott Frank.Said Publisher's Weekly, "Geary ably adapts Klickstein's whimsical novel, written in the naive voice of real-life Victorian child author Daisy Ashford."[68] Klickstein has worked with The Kids of Widney High, a group of young adults with developmental disabilities who write, record and perform rock songs.