---
name: "Spike Feresten"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/spike-feresten"
fi1m_id: "spike-feresten"
imdb_id: "nm0272324"
tmdb_id: 44115
wikidata_id: "Q7577191"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 September 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T05:13:06.920711+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."
---

# Spike Feresten

## Identity

Spike Feresten

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/spike-feresten
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** spike-feresten
- **IMDb ID:** nm0272324
- **TMDB ID:** 44115
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7577191
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Feresten, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7577191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272324/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44115

Writer. Born 3 September 1964 in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 September 1964, Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 1989–2007
- **Frequently works with:** [Andy Robin](https://film.one/person/andy-robin.md), [Billy Kimball](https://film.one/person/billy-kimball.md), [David Mandel](https://film.one/person/david-mandel.md), [Greg Daniels](https://film.one/person/greg-daniels.md), [Jennifer Crittenden](https://film.one/person/jennifer-crittenden.md), [Jerry Seinfeld](https://film.one/person/jerry-seinfeld.md), [Matt Selman](https://film.one/person/matt-selman.md), [Max Pross](https://film.one/person/max-pross.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 89 (2), 2000s 55 (1)
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Animation 2, Adventure 1, Family 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $288m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Feresten, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7577191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272324/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/44115

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Seinfeld*](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md) (90)
- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Bee Movie*](https://film.one/film/bee-movie.md) (55)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Spike Feresten is an American television writer, screenwriter and television personality. He wrote one episode of *The Simpsons* in 1995 and several episodes of *Seinfeld* between 1995 and 1998, including 'The Soup Nazi', for which he received an Emmy nomination; he later became supervising producer on the series.

Born in Fall River, Massachusetts, Feresten began his career writing for *Saturday Night Live* and *Late Night with David Letterman*. He hosted the late-night series *Talkshow with Spike Feresten* on Fox from 2006 to 2009. He has co-written the films *Bee Movie* (2007) and *Unfrosted* (2024) with Jerry Seinfeld.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, simpsonswiki.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Bee Movie* (2007), Fi1m 55, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/bee-movie.md)
- *Seinfeld* (1989), Fi1m 90, Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Unfrosted* (2024), as Newborn Ravioli (voice) · Writer, Producer
- *Mental* (2009), series, Actor
- *Bee Movie* (2007), Writer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/bee-movie.md)
- *The Seinfeld Story* (2004), Writer
- *Seinfeld: How It Began* (2004), Writer
- *The Michael Richards Show* (2000), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Tomorrow Night* (1998), as Studio Page
- *Jury Duty* (1995), as Folk Singer (as Michael Feresten)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Seinfeld* (1989), series, as Man Outside Stadium, Juror · Writer, Producer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)

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