Derek Harvie

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Derek Kevin Harvie (born April 7, 1971 in Deep River, Ontario) is a Canadian entertainment writer and producer. Harvie grew up in Ottawa, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in film and literature.

One of the original creators of The Tom Green Show in its original Canadian community channel run, Harvie continued to write and produce the show on The Comedy Network from 1996 to 1998 and on MTV from 1999 through 2003. In 2001, Harvie co-wrote the film Freddy Got Fingered.

His special MTV documentary, "The Tom Green Cancer Special"[1] was named by "Time Magazine" as "one of the ten best TV programs of the year" in 2001. The show was also nominated for a "Peabody Award".

Harvie has worked briefly on numerous other comedy shows and pilots including WB's The Skateboard Show, VH1's Hollywood Tonight and NBC's Saturday Night Live.

In January 2007 Derek Harvie created the LA rock band "Guitar Zeros" in which he plays lead guitar. None of the band members of Guitar Zeros actually play any instruments. Instead they play the Activision video game "Guitar Hero" in front of live audiences.

Harvie currently lives in Los Angeles and is the executive producer of Night Calls and all other live programming for Playboy TV.