Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, I moved to Los Angeles after graduating from college (later than most people do). Growing up, I was obsessed with comedy & was, as the expression goes, the "class clown." I never realized you could get paid for being obnoxious & disruptive until I moved to L.A. and got a job on E!'s hit show Chelsea Lately; Hollywood dreams, they do come true!

Since Chelsea Lately ended, I have toured with Dana Gould, Rob Delaney, and Chris Hardwick & have appeared on panel shows such as Comedy Central's hit @midnight, TruTV’s How to be a Grown Up, and Fox’s World’s Funniest with Terry Crews. I co-hosted two seasons of the weekly show Almost Genius on TruTV with my friend Chris Fairbanks. After 13 years in L.A., I now live in Brighton, England, attempting to write comedy during the four days of sunshine per year.

I've also published my own photocopied zine since the age of 14 & I was a writer/copy editor for MTV News for several years prior to the pursuit of comedy. ("Well yeah, I guess it's obvious — I also like to write.")

What else am I supposed to brag about here? I created & hosted the popular Go Bayside podcast for nearly two years. I make pretty good mixtapes. I’m a decent cook. And did I mention I made lord of the underworld Glenn Danzig laugh once? As far as I know, this qualifies me for a Nobel Prize nomination.

And because dorks like me enjoy reading this sort of stuff on other people's sites, here are some of my influences: BOB ODENKIRK, Millie De Chirico, Billy Bragg, Paul F. Tompkins, Steve Martin, Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer, Brian Regan, Bill Hicks, David Cross, Colin Quinn, Tom & Jerry, Kids in the Hall, French & Saunders, Eddie Murphy (I saw Raw when I was like, 8, after my grandparents had gone to bed and left HBO on), late '80s-early '90s Saturday Night Live, Clarissa from Clarissa Explains it All, Christopher Guest, Janeane Garofalo, Mike Judge, The State, those MTV promos from the early '90s with Donal Logue as a gross cab driver, both Wayne's World movies, Professor Harold Hill from the 1962 film The Music Man (for confidence), Bugs Bunny, John Waters, Sassy magazine, Zack Morris, & tons more.