--- name: "Dave Krinsky" canonical: "https://film.one/person/dave-krinsky" roles: ["Creator","Writer"] born: "27 February 1963" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 82 updated: "2026-09-17T02:43:50.364967+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Dave Krinsky Creator and writer. Born 27 February 1963 in Florida, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Creator, Writer - **Born:** 27 February 1963, Florida, USA - **Active:** 1997–2014 - **Works often with:** John Altschuler, Mike Judge ## Fi1m on Dave Krinsky > A writer whose name sits behind Mike Judge's on two of the best comedies of their kind, Dave Krinsky specialises in satire that refuses to look down on its targets. It works, and it has made him close to invisible. Nobody in a Dave Krinsky script is a fool for the writer's convenience. Hank Hill sells propane in a small Texas town and *King of the Hill* (1997) takes the propane as seriously as he does; the laughs come from how ordinary everything is. Richard Hendricks in *Silicon Valley* (2014) writes a compression algorithm without noticing what he has done, and the joke is not that he is stupid but that clever people are as blind as the rest of us. Krinsky and his partner John Altschuler have said they try to police condescension in their writing, and on the evidence it is the one rule they never break. The partnership is the career. The two met at university, wrote together for National Lampoon, and joined *King of the Hill* as writers in 1997, going on to run its final seven seasons from 2003 to 2010. Between times they wrote *Blades of Glory* (2007) for Will Ferrell, a broader thing than anything they did for television. In 2008 they formed Ternion Productions with Mike Judge, which produced *The Goode Family* (2009) and then *Silicon Valley*, which Krinsky co-created with Altschuler and Judge before the pair stepped back from day-to-day running after the first season. Krinsky credits Judge with the lesson that "things don't have to be jokes", and that is the whole method. Peter Gregory, the venture capitalist in *Silicon Valley* who speaks as though each word were billed, is funny because the script never lets him know it. We laughed at him harder than at anyone else in the first season, and then felt a little caught out, because the writers had plainly met men like him and were reporting rather than mocking. The same patience makes *King of the Hill* the kindest show of its sort: it waits for the small town to be funny on its own terms and it usually is. The limits are the limits of the method. *Silicon Valley* has one story, a small firm nearly ruined and nearly saved, and tells it every season; the later runs feel it, and the shape was set in the first year, which is the year Krinsky was most present. *King of the Hill* runs long and a few of its stories wear thin, though seven seasons of steady quality under the pair's hand is not a small thing. Neither show ever asks to be admired, and that is why they last and why their writer's name means little to most people who love them. If you have watched either for any length of time you have watched hours of Krinsky's work without knowing it. Start with the first season of *Silicon Valley*, which is where his hand shows most, and then decide how much of the same story you want. ## Biography Dave Krinsky is an American writer and producer. He began his career writing for National Lampoon alongside John Altschuler, with whom he has frequently collaborated. After working as assistant producers on the HBO series The High Life, they joined the writing staff of the animated series King of the Hill in 1997. Krinsky and Altschuler worked on King of the Hill for 13 years and served as showrunners for its final seven seasons. In 2008 they formed Ternion Productions with Mike Judge. Krinsky co-created the HBO series Silicon Valley (2014) with Altschuler and Judge, and co-wrote the screenplay for the film Blades of Glory (2007). He has also co-created the series The Goode Family (2009) and Lopez (2016), and contributed to the 2011 revival of Beavis and Butt-Head. Krinsky has received several Primetime Emmy nominations and shared an SXSW Film Award for his work on Silicon Valley. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Silicon Valley* (2014), Fi1m 82, Creator, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/silicon-valley.md) - *King of the Hill* (1997), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/king-of-the-hill-1997.md) ## Also known for - *Blades of Glory* (2007), Screenplay - *Beavis and Butt-Head* (1993), Writer --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/dave-krinsky