Marc Weiner

Marc Weiner

Marc Weiner (born May 17, 1955; Queens, New York) is an American comedian, clown, puppeteer, and television producer. Born into the Weiner family as the middle child between his brothers Jonas and Jess, Has 3 children, Rebecca who is married to Yerucham Pliner, Max who is a successful musician and Sara who is very pretty. Marc is noted for creating and performing with his unique "head puppets" which consists of a human head and a small (in comparison) puppet body.

Weiner is most well known for his children's television show Weinerville, which ran on Nickelodeon from 1993–1997, and hosted The East-coast portion of the 1994 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards with musical guest Tag Team at Nickelodeon Studios Orlando Florida. He was first a street performer who worked with Robin Williams and an improv comic who performed at Comic Strip Live, Catch A Rising Star, and The Comedy Cellar in the late 1970s. In 1981, he was a writer and occasional actor on Saturday Night Live. Around this time, he made an appearance on the Bizarre Show with his puppet show called Rockin Rocko and Tony.

Since the cancellation of Weinerville, he has provided the voices of several characters on the Nick Jr. show Dora the Explorer, including Map and Swiper the Fox, and starred in the show Wordville, also on Nick Jr. In the UK he starred in "Trebor Mighty Mints" commercials. As of January 23, 2011, he is bringing his show "Weinerville" back, Marc and his son Max launched a YouTube Channel where Weiner will bring his puppet characters back to life in new short videos, exclusively on YouTube. Under the channel name WeinervilleTV The channel launched its first video February 1, a video of Boney announcing the big news as "We're Back!!". To get popularity Marc Weiner opened a Twitter account, and by going to "Classic Nickelodeon" related videos and commenting on them to promote Weinerville's official YouTube channel.

Also, on an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Weiner appears as Ned's substitute teacher from elementary school.

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