What is Steven Wright?
{{Infobox comedian | name = Steven Wright | image = Steven Wright 1994.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Wright in 1994 | pseudonym = | birth_name = Steven Alexander Wright | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|12|6}} | birth_place = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], U.S. | medium = [[Stand-up]], [[movie]]s, [[television]] | nationality = American | active = 1978–present | genre = [[surreal humor]], [[One-line joke|one-liners]], [[deadpan]], [[wit]]/[[word play]], [[observational comedy]], [[Musical comedy]], [[Anti-humor]] | subject = | influences = [[Woody Allen]], [[George Carlin]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comedycouch.com/interviews/swright.htm |title=Steven Wright Interview |publisher=The Comedy Couch |date=April 10, 2002 |access-date=June 12, 2012}}</ref> [[Bob Newhart]]<ref>{{cite web|last=Lapka |first=Larry |url=http://allmusic.com/artist/steven-wright-p253 |title=Steven Wright |publisher=AllMusic |date=December 6, 1955 |access-date=June 12, 2012}}</ref> | influenced = | spouse = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | current_members = | past_members = | awards = '''[[Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film]]'''<br />[[The Appointments of Dennis Jennings]] }} '''Steven Alexander Wright''' (born December 6, 1955) is an [[Americans|American]] [[Stand-up comedy|stand-up comedian]], [[actor]], [[writer]], and [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning [[movie producer]]. He is known for his low voice and slow, [[deadpan]] delivery of [[irony|ironic]] [[comedy]]. He is known for his Oscar-winning [[short movie]] ''[[The Appointments of Dennis Jennings]]'' (1988). Wright was ranked as the 15th Greatest Comedian by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in a list of the 50 Greatest Stand-up Comics.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Love|first1=Matthew|title=50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/50-best-stand-up-c