Kevin Kelton

Kevin Kelton is an American author and television writer-producer whose credits include Saturday Night Live, Night Court, Boy Meets World and other network series.

He has also written articles and essays for National Lampoon.

Kelton is the younger brother of the comedian Bobby Kelton, who appeared regularly on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson during the 1970s and 1980s.

In the late 1980s, he segued to scripted half-hour comedies and worked on the staff of nine sitcoms, plus several pilots and web series.

In total, his credit appeared on hundreds of TV episodes spanning three decades.

He went on to write for a string of sketch comedy series before being hired by Saturday Night Live as a staff writer at the beginning of the 1983–84 season.

During this time, the writing staff earned an Emmy nomination.

After his two-year stint at SNL, Kelton returned to Los Angeles and continued writing for sketch comedy series and specials.

In 2020, Kelton moved to Texas and changed his focus to long-form fiction.

His novels include "Super Vows," "Pas De Deux," and "Things We Shouldn't Do" (written under the psuedonym, K.B. Kelton) and he penned a how-to book about television writing, "The Sitcom Writer's Cookbook: Easy-to-Follow Recipes for TV Writing Success."

He teaches TV and Film writing for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.

Kelton is married to Jessica Kelton (née Jessica Funt), a former ballerina with the Royal Ballet of Flanders (Belgium), Le Ballet Theatre Francais de Nancy, and the Hamburg Ballet.

Kelton's first TV writing job was on the syndicated game show Face the Music.

He segued to sketch comedy, joining the writing staff of the ABC late-night sketch show Fridays!.