Paul DinelloFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Paul Dinello moved to Chicago to study at DePaul University, where he got involved with the Second City comedy troupe and met fellow comedians Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert. The three of them moved to New York to create the sketch comedy show Exit 57, which originally aired on Comedy Central....Read More

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Mr. Burnout

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Strangers With Candy director Paul Dinello takes the reins for this small-town comedy concerning an embittered teacher who bets an attractive new colleague that he can get his three most problematic students into top colleges. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2009
Gym Teacher: The Movie

Crew: Director

Actors: Nathan Kress, Christopher Meloni, Amy Sedaris, David Alan Grier, Chelah Horsdal

Synopsis: The newest nerd in school joins forces with the one-time Olympic hopeful whose failure at the Seoul Games made all of America cringe in this Nichelodeon Original Movie. Try as he might, there's just no disguising the fact that Hamm Lake Middle School's newest arrival won't be scoring any winning Read More

2008
Strangers With Candy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Deborah Rush, Carlo Alban, Maria Thayer, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert

Synopsis: The cult-favorite television series which offered a fun-house version of '70s "after-school specials" returns in this big-screen prequel to the show Strangers With Candy. Middle-aged ex-prostitute, former drug addict and all-around lowlife Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) emerges from prison at the age Read More

6/28/06
Strangers With Candy: Feather in the Storm

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri attempts to balance her desire to be on the debate team with her growing eating disorder in this installment of the irreverent Comedy Central series. Confessing her desire to join the debate team to Mr. Noblot (Stephen Colbert), the hungry teacher reveals that Jerri must lose some weight Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Let Freedom Ring

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: When a racial epithet is spray-painted on the wall of Flatpoint High Scholl, Paul Cotton (Jared Ryan) is the only witness and everyone wants to know who did it. As Mr. Jellineck (Paul Dinello) attempts to recover from the trauma and Principal Blackman (Greg Hollimon) discusses the incident in the Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: To Be Young, Gifted and Blank

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri (Amy Sedaris) discovers she has a previously unknown talent in this episode of the off-color Comedy Central series. Kicked out of the Flatpoint High orchestra by Mr. Jellineck (Paul Dinello) for pounding on the timpani and refusing to follow directions, a distressed Jerri remains behind Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: The Trip Back

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: The temptations of the past resurface to haunt Jerri (Amy Sedaris) in the season one closer of Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy. When comely stoner Trish (Stephanie Sanditz) offers to share a joint with Jerri in the bathroom after gym class, the lustful Jerri quickly caves to temptation and Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Jerri is Only Skin Deep

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri's (Amy Sedaris) desperate bid to become homecoming queen yields predictably disastrous results in this episode of Comedy Central's Strangers With Candy. Encouraged by Orlando (Orlando Pabotoy) to nominate herself as homecoming queen, Jerri's hopes are quickly dashed when Mr. Noblot (Stephen Colbert Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Bogie Nights

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri (Amy Sedaris) and Orlando's (Orlando Pabotoy) friendship is put to the test when a new student arrives at Flatpoint High in this episode of the edgy Comedy Central series. Instantly attracted to new arrival Ricky despite the fact that everyone seems out to get him, Jerri quickly caves to Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Old Habits/New Beginnings

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: The premier episode of Comedy Central's warped take on the after-school special introduces viewers to series protagonist Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) as she attends a high school anti-drug rally. Recently released from jail and having lived the life of a teenage runaway for 32 years, 46-year-old Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Season 01

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri Blank's (Amy Sedaris) first semester back at Flatpoint High finds the 46-year-old ex-con, ex-prostitute, and ex-drug addict high school freshman attempting to pull her life together. From her initial bid for popularity to her total relapse into drug addition, the first season of Strangers With Candy Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy [TV Series]

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Deborah Rush, Greg Hollimon, Larc Spies

Synopsis: She was a user, a boozer, and an all-around loser, but now forty-something ex-junkie prostitute Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) is going back to Flatpoint High School to take back her life in Comedy Central's acclaimed After School Special satire Strangers With Candy. Not much has changed since Jerri Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Who Wants Cake?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri attempts to deal with her new braces while trying to determine if another student is retarded in this episode of Strangers With Candy, which borrows plot points from the series' unaired pilot, "Retardation: A Celebration." Mortified at the thought of getting braces, Jerri's fears are Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: Dreams on the Rocks

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri's (Amy Sedaris) role in the Flatpoint High Shool production of A Raisin in the Sun leads her stepmother into an alcoholic haze in this installment of the irreverent and outrageous Comedy Central series. Passing over Flatpoint's African-American students to give the lead roles to the three Read More

1999
Strangers With Candy: A Burden's Burden

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Dolores Duffy, Jack Ferver, Orlando Pabotoy, Mitch Rouse, Deborah Rush, Maria Thayer, Sarah Thyre

Synopsis: Jerri (Amy Sedaris) struggles with a lesson in motherhood on this "painfully special" episode of Comedy Central's demented ode to the after-school special. Clueless as to how to care for the baby that was assigned to her in Coach Wolf's (Sarah Thyre) health education class, Jerri takes Principal Read More

1999
Plump Fiction

Actors: Tommy Davidson, Julie Brown, Paul Dinello, Sandra Bernhard, Dan Castellaneta

Synopsis: Bob Koherr directed this predictable parody of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, offering variations on the film's familiar scenes, plus satirical jabs at other titles, including Reservoir Dogs, Natural Born Killers, Forrest Gump and Nell. Tarantino's hit men are replaced here with exterminators Read More

1998
Straight Talk

Actors: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Jerry Orbach, Michael Madsen, Deirdre O'Connell

Synopsis: Dolly Parton and James Woods as the screen's hottest new romantic team? That's only one of several casting surprises in this romantic comedy. Shirlee Kenyon (Dolly Parton) has had enough of life in her small Arkansas town, not to mention her small-minded Arkansas boyfriend Steve (Michael Madsen). Read More

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