Jeff Schaffer

Jeff Schaffer (born January 1, 1970) is an American film and television director, writer, and producer.

Works

Best Laid Plans

Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.

Release Date1999-04-09

Charactersd Phone Guy No. 2

Vote Count135

Seinfeld

A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

Release Date1989-07-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count86

Vote Count2359

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

Release Date2000-10-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count34

Vote Count935

The League

The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.

Release Date2009-10-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count76

Vote Count226

Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An almost History of America

An improvised, comedic approach to major events in American history in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States.

Release Date2026-06-26

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count7

DAVE

A suburban neurotic man in his late 20s has convinced himself that he’s destined to be one of the best rappers of all time. Now he must convince his closest friends, because with their help, he might actually convince the world.

Release Date2020-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count191

Shark Tale

Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.

Release Date2004-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Vote Count6735

The Dictator

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Release Date2012-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6482

EuroTrip

When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.

Release Date2004-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2990

The Cat in the Hat

During a rainy day, and while their mother is out, Conrad and Sally, and their pet fish, are visited by the mischievous Cat in the Hat. Fun soon turns to mayhem, and the siblings must figure out how to rid themselves of the maniacal Cat.

Release Date2003-11-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1813

Brüno

Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.

Release Date2009-07-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1929

Clear History

Nathan Flomm, in order to avoid the humiliation of having missed out on a hugely successful business, assumes a new identity on Martha's Vineyard. He plots revenge when his former business partner moves to the same town.

Release Date2013-08-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count358

Untitled How the Grinch Stole Christmas Sequel

Sequel to Ron Howard’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Plot TBA.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

The remake of the original 1963 film

Release Date2000-03-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Blow Up the Chat

A group of best’ friends private and wildly inappropriate, year-long group chat is hacked, which risks upending their individual lives and friendship with one another.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector