David Steinberg

Comedian — The Tonight Show appearances, directing Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, stand-up comedy

Born

1942

Birthplace

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Manitoba

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

His controversial 1968 'satirical sermons' got him — and the show — in hot water on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, but Johnny Carson never wavered, making him The Tonight Show's youngest-ever guest host and a fixture with over 130 appearances.

The verdict

Born in Winnipeg and raised there until his comedy took him south, he became a fixture on American TV while never quite shaking that prairie sensibility. Directed everything from Seinfeld to Curb Your Enthusiasm, but Canadians still remember him from those legendary Tonight Show appearances in the '60s. A true export who made it big but never forgot where the funny came from, eh.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable