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Casey Wilson (PMC Podcast Ep 39 – click HERE):

A hilarious actress, writer and improviser, Casey Wilson studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and performed sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater with her oft writing partner, June Diane Raphael, in a duo called “Rode Hard and Put Away Wet”. The show ran for eleven months and was selected for the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. She’s also performed with the Harold improv teams “Sentimental Lady” and “Hey, Uncle Gary!” In 2008, Casey was hired as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, where for two seasons she brought to life memorable characters like Dusty Velvet the paralyzed stripper and Toni Ward, co-host of The Cougar Den. Along with June Diane Raphael, Casey wrote the Kate Hudson/Anne Hathaway comedy Bride Wars, and the 2011 indie comedy Ass Backwards, which they also star in. Casey currently stars as Penny in the new ABC show Happy Endings, alongside Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton, Adam Pally, Damon Wayans, Jr. and Eliza Coupe. Other TV and film work includes The Life and Times of Tim, Julie & Julia, The Brothers Soloman, The Great Buck Howard and Killers. Casey and her brother Fletcher serve as the Vice Presidents of the “Kathy Wilson Foundation” (kathywilsonfoundation.org) founded in 2005, established to honor their late mother’s work in helping pre-school children with special needs.

Freaks and Geeks (PMC Podcast Ep 38 – click HERE):

Four of the cast members from the beloved TV show Freaks and Geeks joined Cole and Vanessa for a special live show at the Improv Comedy Lab in Los Angeles. Samm Levine played Neil Schweiber, a lovable geek with a knack for doing William Shatner impressions. Samm is the regular second-fiddle on the hit web chat program Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show. He’s also appeared in the movies Inglorious Bastards, Sydney White, Drones, Not Another Teen Movie, Pulse, I Love You, Beth Cooper, Club Dread and he was the voice of camp announcer Artie in Wet Hot American Summer. TV work includes How I Met Your Mother, The Drew Carey Show, Lost, Family Guy, Veronica Mars, My Name is Earl, and Life As We Know It. Sarah Hagan played Lindsay’s childhood best friend, the straight-edged Millie Kentner. She played Amanda, one of the young slayers in the last season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Other TV work includes Medium, Grey’s Anatomy, Judging Amy, Close to Home, Boston Public, and Undeclared. She also appeared in the films Orange County and Spring Breakdown. Natasha Melnick played young Sam Weir’s love-interest, the kind-hearted cheerleader Cindy Sanders. She played Isabelle on Do-Over, and also appeared on the shows Family Guy, American Dad, Life as We Know It, Boston Public, Undeclared, Judging Amy, King of the Hill, 7^th Heaven and Malcolm in the Middle. On the big screen, she’s had roles in Orange County, Go, The Parent Trap, and Everything or Nothing. Steve Bannos played stern teacher Mr. Kowchevski, and was also a writer on the show, penning episodes like Smooching and Mooching, and the never-filmed The Missing Bus. As an actor, he played Mr. Combover on Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide, and was on the shows Arrested Development, Help Me Help You, The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show, Undeclared, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Without a Trace. Film work includes Superbad, Pineapple Express, Funny People, Drillbit Taylor, Semi-Pro, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Unaccompanied Minors, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

The Thrilling Adventure Hour (PMC Podcast Ep 37 – click HERE):

Ben Acker & Ben Blacker are the creators and writers of the Thrilling Adventure Hour, a monthly live show in the style of old-time radio at Largo in Los Angeles, which they also release as a popular podcast through iTunes. They have also written the independent sci-fi romantic comedy Drones and are in the process of writing pilots for the USA and Spike networks. Learn more about them and the show at ThrillingAdventureHour.com

Marc Evan Jackson has appeared in Super Dave’s Spike-tacular, Funny Or Die’s “The Carpet Brothers,” Last Comic Standing, and a series of hilarious State Farms ads with JK Simmons.

Charismatic comedic actor Colin Hanks recently starred as Detective Jack Bailey in the FOX action comedy hybrid The Good Guys. He played Alex Whitman, Katherine Heigl’s love interest in the sci-fi series Roswell, and plays Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in the smash AMC drama Mad Men. Other TV work includes The O.C. and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. On the big screen, Hanks starred alongside Jack Black in the teen comedy Orange County, and joined him again in Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong. He starred as Oliver, a charming nursing home manager in the hit comedy The House Bunny, and also appeared in the films Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny and The Great Buck Howard. Follow him on twitter @Colin_Hanks

James Urbaniak is an American actor. One of his first noteworthy roles was in the avant-garde playwright/director Richard Foreman’s The Universe, for which Urbaniak won an Obie. He has also been acclaimed for his acting in the films Henry Fool and American Splendor, playing legendary illustrator R. Crumb and the play Thom Pain, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He provides the voice for Dr. Thaddeus Venture on The Venture Bros., as well as the Doctor’s brother, Jonas Venture Junior and the super-villain Phantom Limb.

Urbaniak was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. He lives in Santa Monica, California with his wife Julie and their twins, son Severn Jerzy and daughter Esme Maeve. He also recently portrayed the moderator in Human Centipede Anonymous, a Funny or Die short depicting three men who grapple with their past as a Human Centipede. He appears monthly in the Thrilling Adventure Hour at Largo in Los Angeles, a splendid live show in the style of an old-time radio program.

The Long Shot (PMC Podcast Ep 36 – click HERE):

The Long Shot is a podcast. It features conversation and sketches from Eddie Pepitone, Sean Conroy, Jamie Flam, and Amber Kenny. They discuss things and life and stuff, usually with very special guests. Eddie Pepitone is a bad ass that works on television regularly. Eddie is Jackie Gleason crossed with the Dali Lama crossed with Don Rickles crossed with your mother. Eddie came to Los Angeles working alongside Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn in Old School. While those gentlemen have gone on to wild-ass fame and fortune Eddie works diligently and far more funnier (because he is hungrier) than those sellouts. Eddie is a recurring character on The Sarah Silverman Program as Eddie the chef at Romanski’s. Eddie is on Monk this season, Monk‘s final season. Eddie has been on Flight of the Concords (season 1), It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, ER, Malcolm in the Middle,King of Queens and that horrible abortion of a show Last Comic Standing. Eddie is on this season’s The Life and Times of Tim on HBO and performs all over Los Angeles and New York when he is in town! Go to eddiepepitone.com for more information. Twitter: @eddiepepitone Sean Conroy is a Stand-Up Comic who has been featured on Comedy Central and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, as well as events like the Sasquatch Music Festival in Gorge, Washington, the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee, and the Traverse City, Michigan Comedy Arts Festival. His one -man show “Taught” went to the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado. As an Improvisor, Sean is part of “The Swarm”, the famed Upright Citizens Brigade improv group, and he is also a regular performer in the ASSSSCAT shows at the UCB Theater. Sean has also written for Spike TV, Comedy Central, MTV, TNT, UPN, CBS, and NBC. Twitter: @seanconroy Jamie Flam is a comedy writer, producer, and performer whose work has been featured on Comedy Central, Hulu, and NPR. He performs regularly in Mortified, and his Jazz/Stand-up show “The Be-Bop Heroin Hour” has been featured at festivals and clubs in Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, and New York City. He currently runs the Improv Comedy Lab at The LA Improv. Check out immaculatize.com for the more “intimate” details. Twitter: @jamieflam Amber Kenny is a writer and performer based out of Los Angeles. She is a founding member of the sketch teams Little Kevin Buttersmith and Dumb Babies. Fun fact: She is also a girl. Twitter: @amber_kenny

Eddie Deezen (PMC Podcast Ep 35 – click HERE):

A fantastic character actor, Eddie Deezen is best known as cinema’s quintessential nerd—he played Eugene Felnic in the musical masterpiece Grease, and it’s cult classic sequel Grease 2; white team leader Wesley in the LA scavenger hunt comedy Midnight Madness; Beatles freak Richard “Ringo” Klaus in Robert Zemeckis’ I Wanna Hold Your Hand; computer technogeek Malvin in WarGames; ventriloquist Herbie Kazlminsky in Steven Spielberg’s epic wartime comedy 1941; Sheldon in the Scott Baio teen flick Zapped!; the Hungry Heffer Manager turned bounty hunter in Critters 2; and the evil Menlo in Surf II. He made his big-screen debut in the B-movie Laserblast, a sci-fi filmed riffed well on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He’s also starred in several cult classics for director Fred Olen Ray, including Beverly Hills Vamp, Hollywood Boulevard II, and Assault of the Killer Bimbos. On television, Eddie played zany maintenance man Eddie Malvin during the 1984-1985 season of Punky Brewster, and the Guy Boarded Up in the Wall on the Weird Al Show. Eddie transitioned into voice-over work, and can be heard as the magpie Snipes in Rock-a-Doodle, and on the shows Darkwing Duck, Eek! The Cat, Timon and Pumbaa, Duckman, Life with Louie, Johnny Bravo, Dexter’s Laboratory, Recess, Kim Possible and Chowder. He was image-captured for the role of the Know-it-all Kid in Robert Zemeckis’ The Polar Express. Visit him on his website, eddiedeezen.com.

Steve Agee (PMC Podcast Ep 34 – click HERE):

Actor, writer and stand-up Steve Agee is best known as Steve Myron on The Sarah Silverman Program. He’s also appeared on Wainy Days, Channel 101, The Quitter Show, Derek and Simon: The Show, and on the Crackle web series Held Up. He was a writer on The Jimmy Kimmel Show from 2005-2008, and has performed stand-up with The Comedians of Comedy. He’s a force to be reckoned with on Twitter.

Bobcat Goldthwait (PMC Podcast Ep 33 – click HERE):

Robert Francis ‘Bobcat’ Goldthwait, is most widely known for his high pitch voice during his comedy acts. He was born in Syracuse, New York in 1962. He decided on a career as a comedian at an early age and was performing professionally while still in high school at the age of 15. He and classmate Tom Kenny performed in a comedy duo, billing themselves as “Bobcat and Tomcat”. Goldthwait became recognized as a solo stand-up comedian and had three televised concert specials in the 1980s: Bob Goldthwait – Is He Like That All the Time?, Evening with Bobcat Goldthwait: Share the Warmth (1987) and Meat Bob. Goldthwait’s first major film role was in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment. He reprised the role in the next two films in the series. Other film work includes World’s Greatest Dad, One Crazy Summer, Hot to Trot, Sleeping Dogs Lie, and his directorial debut Shakes the Clown. During the fall of 1993 Goldthwait did stand up material as an opening act for Nirvana on what would be their final North American tour. He has made several guest appearances on talk shows as well as comedy programs including The Ben Stiller Show. On May 9, 1994, he made a controversial appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where on impulse he set a couch on fire. This incident was then the basis of the plot for his subsequent appearance on The Larry Sanders Show. One of the most recognizable features of Goldthwait’s performances is his voice. Goldthwait has voiced characters on the television series Capitol Critters, The Moxy & Flea Show, Unhappily Ever After, Hercules and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. He has also appeared as himself hosting the comedy quiz show Bobcat’s Big Ass Show. Goldthwait has released two comedy albums: “Meat Bob” (1988) on Chrysalis Records and “I Don’t Mean to Insult You, but You Look Like Bobcat Goldthwait” (2003) on Comedy Central Records. His film Windy City Heat won a Comedia Award for Best Comedy Film at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Film Festival in 2004. Bobcat began directing ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live in the fall 2004 season. Since joining the show’s crew, the ratings went up to 2 million viewers a night.

Bob Odenkirk (PMC Podcast Ep 32 – click HERE):

Bob has written for the TV shows Saturday Night Live, The Ben Stiller Show, and created and starred in Mr. Show with Bob and David, which ran on HBO for 4 years and has been called “the American Monty Python.” Since Mr. Show finished production he has directed quite a few short films and TV pilots, including The Near Future at HBO and Highway To Oblivion at Comedy Central. In 2003 Bob directed the independent feature Melvin Goes To Dinner. This low-budget feature went on to win numerous awards at festivals, successful independent theatrical distribution, and has been released on Sundance DVD. He also directed the feature films; Let’s Go To Prison, and The Brothers Solomon. Bob has had memorable roles in many films and TV shows, including agent “Stevie Grant” on The Larry Sanders Show, but he is particularly thrilled to be a part of AMC’s Breaking Bad in the role of “Saul Goodman,” a lawyer who never places his clients’ interest above his own. He’s been writing and performing live sketch comedy with the group Gentlemen’s Club at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. They recently took the show on the road to SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival.

Jimmy Pardo (PMC Podcast Ep 30 – click HERE):

There are so many things that make Jimmy Pardo damn funny–ranging from lots of sharp, inventive material to being incredibly quick-on-his-feet and deft when improvising- but you could argue that the most singular, if not biggest, weapon in his comedy arsenal is “the take.” No matter what context—TV, film or stage, Pardo’s work is highlighted by a wonderfully expressive mug and a peppy, often self-deprecating, delivery. Jimmy has earned the respect of his peers and along with it, the moniker “comic’s comic.” This reputation has earned him invitations to the Just for Laughs Festivals in both Montreal and Toronto, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, the San Francisco Sketchfest, and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. Jimmy has also found a comfortable home on television, having hosted National Lampoon’s Funny Money on the Game Show Network and as the four season co-host of AMC’s Movies at our House. He has also hosted episodes of VH1’s The Surreal Life, NBC’s Late Friday and VH1’s Love Lounge. Sitcom appearances include guest spots on Monk, True Jackson, VP, That 70’s Show and Becker. He has performed stand-up on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Team Coco presents The Conan Writers Live, and has his own half-hour special, Comedy Central Presents Jimmy Pardo. Unafraid to tackle any medium, Jimmy has acted in the indie features, Relative Strangers and The Godfather of Green Bay. As for the world of theatre, he is also the co-writer and star of a critically acclaimed one-man show, subtly titled, Attention Must Be Paid: The Jimmy Pardo Story and a live pilot presentation, Jimmy Pardo’s Dance Party. In addition, he hosts his own monthly improv game show, Running Your Trap with Jimmy Pardo at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. His weekly podcast, Never Not Funny has been regularly voted in the top 20 podcasts of iTunes and USA Today’s yearly lists. Jimmy was also the regular warm-up for The Tonight Show starring Conan O’Brien. Jimmy Pardo…Never Not Funny!

Paul Scheer (PMC Podcast Ep 29 – click HERE):

Paul Scheer is best known for his work on the MTV sketch comedy series Human Giant, which he co-created and stars in along with Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, and director Jason Woliner. He currently stars as plastic surgeon Andre on FX’s fantasy football comedy The League. He appeared on NBC’s 30 Rock as Kenneth’s rival page, Donny Lawson; Sir Tinkle Button, Dr. Blake’s clown brother on Adult Swim’s Children’s Hospital; and talked all things pop culture on VH1’s Best Week Ever. Other television credits include Party Down, The Sarah Silverman Program, Funny or Die Presents…, Players, Parks and Recreation, Reno 911!, Upright Citizens Brigade, 10 Items or Less and Crossballs. Along with Jack McBrayer, Paul does the knock-knock joke of the day on the super popular kids show Yo Gabba Gabba! On the big screen, Paul recently appeared as cameraman Andrew in Piranha 3D, and had memorable roles in Year One, Bride Wars, School for Scoundrels, Meet Dave, The Onion: The Movie, and the 2004 SXSW Audience Award Winner Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story. Paul joined the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City in 1998 where he has performed Sketch and Improvisation with Respecto Montalban, winners of the ECNY Award for “Best Improv Show.” Scheer is currently based in Los Angeles, and is a regular performer at UCBTLA. In 2006, Variety named Scheer one of the “Top 10 Comics to Watch” and AP Magazine hailed him as one of their favorite comedians. www.paulscheer.com

Joshua Malina (PMC Podcast Ep 28 – click HERE):

A frequent collaborator with acclaimed writer Aaron Sorkin, Joshua Malina appeared in the original Broadway production of his play A Few Good Men as well as the popular film version. Malina starred as Jeremy Goodwin, the charming statistics nut on the acclaimed yet short-lived series Sports Night, and portrayed Will Bailey, the Deputy White House Communications Director, on The West Wing. Other Television work includes series regular roles on Hot Shots, Imagine That, and In Plain Sight, and memorable guest roles on The Larry Sanders Show, Numb3rs, Psych, The Nine, Sliders, Stargate SG-1, Bones, House M.D., The Sarah Silverman Program, Grey’s Anatomy, Medium, CSI, iCarly, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Film work includes The American President, Bulworth, View From the Top, Clockwatchers, Infinity, In the Line of Fire, and the upcoming Knights of Badassdom, starring Steve Zahn, Danny Pudi, Peter Dinklage, Summer Glau and Ryan Kwanten. Malina created and stars in the new Crackle.com web series Backwash, co-starring Michael Ian Black and Michael Panes, premiering November 15, 2010.

Alan Ruck (PMC Podcast Ep 27 – click HERE):

A veteran of stage and screens big and small, Alan Ruck is best known for his iconic role of Cameron Frye in John Hughes’ classic comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day-Off, starring opposite Matthew Broderick, his co-star in the Broadway production of Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues. Many memorable film roles followed—Ruck portrayed storm-chaser Rabbit in Jan De Bont’s Twister; annoying tourist Stephens in the runaway-bus flick Speed; Billy the Kid’s buddy Hendry William French in Young Guns II; and ill-fated Captain of the Enterprise-B John Harriman in Star Trek: Generations and it’s fan-film sequel Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. Other film work includes Cheaper By The Dozen, The Happening,Ghost Town, I Love You Beth Cooper, Three for the Road, Extraordinary Measures, Bad Boys, Class, Three Fugitives and Bloodhounds of Broadway. On TV, he starred as Stuart Bondek on the beloved sitcom Spin City, along with Michael J. Fox, Michael Boatman and Barry Bostwick. He played Dean Bowman on the ABC Family show Greek; Charlie Morse on Christopher McQuarrie’s Persons Unknown; re-curred as Lance on Mad About You, and has also appeared on Scrubs, Picket Fences, Boston Legal, Psych, Eureka, Rules of Engagement, Justified, NCIS: Los Angeles, Cougar Town, Flash Forward, Numb3rs, CSI, Medium, Going Places and The Edge. He’s also appeared on Broadway as Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers and starred as Ronald in Absurd Person Singular.

Andy Kindler (PMC Podcast Ep 26 – click HERE):

Andy Kindler is known in comedy circles as a troublemaker. Originally from New York, and now complaining from California, he annoys people all over the world. Andy is a frequent guest and correspondent for The Late Show with David Letterman. Each summer at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal he delivers the State of the Industry address to a packed ballroom filled with comics and Hollywood industry types. He is infamous for his scathing attacks on the world of entertainment, including the previously taboo practice of making fun of his fellow comedians. Just as the comedy boom of the nineties was imploding, Andy wrote the “Hack’s Handbook” for National Lampoon. This “how to” guide satirized and exposed tired comedy formulas. Andy was recently seen as a judge on the 7^th season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He is the star of two half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials and currently recurs on Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place and Fox’s upcoming animation Bob’s Burgers. He was also a regular comedy litigator on The Root of all Evil. Other noteworthy credits include the HBO Young Comedians Special, Late Night with Conan O’Brian, The Daily Show, Dr. Katz Professional Therapist, Home Movies and The Larry Sanders Show. Andy is often recognized for playing the life-affirming character “Andy” on the CBS sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond.

Savage Steve Holland (PMC Podcast Ep 25 – click HERE):

A brilliant writer, director and animator, Savage got his start as an animator on TV’s Press Your Luck, creating those lovable Whammies. He studied animation at the California Institure of the Arts where one of his student projects Going Nowhere Fast (1980), was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art show TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures. He wrote and directed the cult comedies Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer, and also directed How I Got Into College. He created and produced the popular kids cartoon Eek! The Cat, and manages his own studio, Savage Studios Ltd. and directs shows for Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, working with several popular ‘tween stars, including The Jonas Brothers, Drake & Josh, and Hillary Duff. He recently directed Legally Blondes, the third in the popular film series.

Curtis Armstrong (PMC Podcast Ep 25 – click HERE):

Curtis Armstrong’s first role came in the 1983 hit film Risky Business, where he delivered the oft-quoted line “I don’t believe this! I’ve got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I’m being chased by Guido the killer pimp!” He is probably best known for his next role, that of Dudley “Booger” Dawson in the1984 hit comedy movie Revenge of the Nerds and its three sequels. He also starred as Lane’s best buddy Charles De Mar in Savage Steve Holland’s cult classic Better Off Dead and as gentle pacifist Ack Ack Raymond in Holland’s follow-up One Crazy Summer. His other films include Big Bully, Bad Medicine, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder, Smokin’ Aces, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and Jingle All The Way. He also had a recurring role as Herbert Viola on the television series Moonlighting and played the part of Ahmet Ertegun in the biographical film Ray. He currently provides the voice for Mr. Moleguaco on the Disney Channel original series The Emperor’s New School and voices Snot on FOX’s American Dad.

The Sklar Brothers (PMC Podcast Ep 24 – click HERE):

Growing up outside of St. Louis , Randy & Jason Sklar had a typical suburban upbringing – playing soccer and baseball after school, hanging out with friends. Then they found comedy. Moving to New York in 1994, the brothers worked at a variety of jobs during the day to support their comedy performances at night. Within a few years, they began to develop their unique style – “a tag team delivery in which one talks over the end of the other’s sentence, completing, adding to or reaffirming his comment (much like the raps of The Beastie Boys),” wrote Neil Strauss of the New York Times. Their comedy quickly attracted the attention of MTV’s talent executives looking to develop a different kind of comedy show. What they came up with was Apartment 2F – a sitcom format based around Randy and Jason’s characters living in New York City . After developing pilots with HBO Independent Productions, WB and NBC, Jason and Randy provided the voices of Biff and Chip Oblong on the critically acclaimed animated show, The Oblongs. Randy and Jason have also guest starred in several TV shows, including an Emmy Award winning episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. They starred as conjoined twins in a memorable episode of Grey’s Anatomy and as warring agents on HBO’s Entourage, and appeared in the season three finale of FX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Their half hour Comedy Central Presents stand up special is still in regular rotation on the network. In November of 2006, Randy and Jason wrapped their 4th and final season of their critically acclaimed comedy series, Cheap Seats on ESPN Classic. In 77 episodes, the Sklars built a strong following in both the sports and comedy worlds. They fill in as guest hosts for Jim Rome on his popular nationally syndicated radio show. Also, Randy and Jason can be seen in Touchstone’s, Wild Hogs, as well as in Fox Atomic’s, The Comebacks. They starred in the popular web series Back on Topps, and wrote and starred in the new Crackle original series Held Up, co-starring Jon Dore, Kaitlin Olson and Maria Bamford.

Graham Elwood (PMC Podcast Ep 23 – click HERE):

Graham has been a stand-up comic for over 10 years working comedy clubs, colleges, TV shows, Holiday Inn Lounges, war zones, dive bars, and one time on the top of a double decker tour bus in Chicago. (not joking) You’ve probably seen him on the TV, like when he hosted the socially relevant game shows Cram (GSN) and Strip Poker (USA), and made the world a better place by appearing on shows like Best Bodies Ever on VH1. Don’t forget the time when he told jokes on The Late Late Show (CBS). Oh, and he also pops up on The High Road with Doug Benson (G4). Also has starred in the theatrical plays Speed the Plow, Light Sensitive, Cash Flow and co-wrote the one act play Brothers. He has directed the award winning short Hello Junkie and the stand-up comedy concert DVD Graham Elwood: Live from Afghanistan. He recently released his first stand-up comedy CD, The Comedian’s Got a Boo Boo, produced by RoofTop Comedy, and co-hosts the podcast Comedy Film Nerds, on iTunes and on comedyfilmnerds.com. Scary, crazy, funny and always entertaining. Graham likes referring to himself in the 3rd person as he feels like a pro ballplayer. Graham Elwood will get it done one day at a time and hopefully will be there come playoffs.

Doug Jones (PMC Podcast Ep 22 – click HERE or Ep 86 – click HERE):

While famous for working under prosthetics in iconic feature film roles, Doug Jones is also a versatile character actor who has performed as “himself” in guest star roles on shows like Criminal Minds, C.S.I. and NBC’s horror anthology Fear Itself. A veteran of over 100 commercials, Doug was Mac Tonight, the moon-headed piano player in the long-running 1990’s McDonald’s campaign. He also starred as the lead villain in “Hush,” an Emmy-winning episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, long considered a fan favorite. In 2005, he played the title role of Pan (as well as the nightmare character, The Pale Man) in Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning Spanish language fantasy/horror feature Pan’s Labyrinth. But it was his sensitive and elegant performance as Abe Sapien in del Toro’s 2004 box office hit Hellboy that brought Doug’s unique work to a wider audience. He went on to voice that same character for the Emmy-nominated Cartoon Network animations Hellboy: Sword of Storms and Hellboy: Blood and Iron. In 2007, Doug’s title role performance in Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer was hailed by fans and critics alike. 2008 saw Doug reprise his starring role (as well as two other characters) in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, once more under the direction of del Toro. He recently completed production on a stylized biopic of the famous French poet/singer/composer Serge Gainsbourg called A Heroic Life, in which he plays Gainsbourg’s dark alter ego. He’s currently in pre-production to play The Creature in del Toro’s take on the Mary Shelley classic, Frankenstein.

Tony Hale (PMC Podcast Ep 21 – click HERE):

Hilarious character actor Tony Hale is perhaps best known as hapless one-handed momma’s boy Buster Bluth on the revered FOX comedy Arrested Development. He also played Buy More bully Emmett Milbarge on the hit NBC show Chuck; video-store clerk turned crime solver on Andy Richter’s short-lived but much-loved Andy Barker P.I.; and Stuart, who controls space and time with his magical computer keyboard on the NBC web series CTRL. Other TV appearances include The United States of Tara, The Sopranos, Community, Numb3rs, Justified, E.R., Sex and the City, Dawson’s Creek, Stacked and Law & Order. On the big screen, Tony has had memorable roles in Stranger Than Fiction, The Informant!, The Goods, Because I Said So, Unaccompanied Minors, and the new indie comedy Not That Funny, currently in production. Tony’s also well-known for his famous VW spot, where he danced and sang along to STYX’s Mr. Roboto.

Joe Lo Truglio (PMC Podcast Ep 20 – click HERE):

A familiar face from screen comedies big and small, Joe Lo Truglio is a founding member of the highly-influential sketch comedy troupe The State, who formed at NYU in the late eighties and enjoyed a successful run on MTV. He starred as Officer Frank Rizzo on the sixth season of the Comedy Central staple Reno 911!, played Billy on the hilarious web series Horrible People, and guested on Sons of Anarchy, Wainy Days, Party Down, The Sarah Silverman Program, Cupid, Hot Sluts, TV Funhouse, Law & Order and Upright Citizens Brigade. He memorably portrayed jolly LARPer Kuzzik in the surprise smash comedy Role Models; camp-counselor Neil in Wet Hot American Summer; stressed-out driver Francis in Superbad; the voice-cracking fitness nut Lonnie in I Love You, Man and teacher Mr. Edwards in Pineapple Express. Other film work includes The Station Agent, The Baxter, The Ten, Fanboys, Beer League, and Hitch. He will soon be seen as FBI Agent O’Reilly in the highly-anticipated comedy Paul, written by and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and also featuring Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman and Sigourney Weaver; and the independent film Queens of Country, starring Lizzie Caplan, Ron Livingston and Matt Walsh. Check him out online on his website, www.joelotruglio.com.

Frank Conniff (PMC Podcast Ep 19 – click HERE):

Frank Conniff, known to fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as TV’s Frank, starred as one of the “mads” on the show from seasons two through six, often screening and choosing the films that the cast skewered. After leaving MST3K, Conniff worked as a story editor on Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and lead writer on Nickelodeon’s Invader Zim. He co-hosts Cartoon Dump, a monthly live show in Los Angeles that screens terrible vintage cartoon shorts under the guise of a twisted children’s show. He is currently part of Cinematic Titanic, a B-movie riff fest alongside original MST3K creator Joel Hodgson.

Laraine Newman (PMC Podcast Ep 18):

Laraine Newman is an original “Not Ready For Primetime Player” on NBC’s late night comedy staple Saturday Night Live, where she originated memorable characters such as Sheri the Valley Girl, and Connie Conehead. She’s also a founding member of the famed Los Angeles comedy troupe “The Groundlings.” She left the show in 1980, and has been working steadily since. Television appearances include Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchock Presents, St. Elsewhere, Laverne & Shirley, Friends, 7th Heaven, 3rd Rock From the Sun and According to Jim. Newman does a ton of cartoon voice work, lending her talents to shows such as The Fairly OddParents, As Told By Ginger, The Oblongs, Metalocalypse, and Danny Phantom, and films like WALL-E, Monsters, Inc., Up, Cars, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. She’s had roles in feature films as well, such as The Flintstones, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Invaders From Mars and Coneheads. Currently, she performs live from time to time with “Celebrity Autobiography” (where stars read passages from other celebrities’ memoirs), and contributes to the foodie website “One For the Table.”

Rob Delaney (PMC Podcast Ep 17 – click HERE):

Rob Delaney is originally from Boston. After an idyllic childhood during which he was never, ever lonely, Rob Delaney attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Following college, Rob Delaney has appeared in film, television and theater. He’s appeared on Last Comic Standing and the web series Coma, Period and the Funny or Die Mad Men send up Ma Men, where he plays an east coast version of Don Draper. He’s one of the top comedic tweeters on Twitter, and won the 2010 RoofTop Comedy Award for Funniest Twitterer. Rob performs stand up regularly at the top comedy venues like The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles and New York (where he has also performed his one-man show Naked and Bloody) and various comedy clubs across the United States. Rob also sings the national anthem for the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Michael Hitchcock (PMC Podcast Ep 16 – click HERE):

When Michael Hitchcock was growing up in the Midwest, he dreamt of someday being a fireman, an amusement park owner, or, if all else failed, an orthodontist. Somewhere along the way his priorities got mixed up, and he somehow ended up acting, writing, and producing. Hitchcock plays Toni Collette’s friend and neighbor “Ted Mayo” on Showtime’s multi-award winning comedy United States of Tara. Produced by Steven Spielberg and Diablo Cody, the show won both an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for Collette’s outstanding work as Tara Gregson, a woman with multiple personalities. Hitchcock also plays “Dave” in the critically-acclaimed TNT series Men of a Certain Age starring Ray Romano, Scott Bakula, and Andre Braugher. Other television credits include Glee, Entourage, Party Down, Desperate Housewives, Pushing Daisies, and Arrested Development. Hitchcock’s film acting credits include featured roles in all four of Christopher Guest’s critically-acclaimed films Best in Show, For Your Consideration, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman. Best in Show earned a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Comedy” and won “Funniest Motion Picture” by the American Comedy Awards and British Comedy Awards. A Mighty Wind won a Grammy Award and an Oscar nomination for its spirited music, and Hitchcock and his co-actors from A Mighty Wind were awarded “Best Ensemble Cast” by the Florida Film Critics Circle and were also nominated for “Best Ensemble Acting” by the Phoenix Film Critics Society. Other movie credits include Serenity, Smiley Face, Wild Hogs, Pretty Persuasion, Happy, Texas, Heartbreakers, and the upcoming films Operation Endgame starring Ellen Barkin, Ving Rhames, and Jeffrey Tambor and Pete Smalls is Dead starring Steve Buscemi, Peter Dinklage, and Sam Rockwell. His writing credits include the acclaimed drama Where the Day Takes You, which was nominated for the “Critics Award” at the Deauville Film Festival and also marked the film acting debut of Will Smith. Other writing credits include the MGM comedy House Arrest starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Disney’s The Ultimate Christmas Present. Hitchcock also performed both writing and producing duties on the long-running Fox latenight comedy series MAD TV. During his tenure at MAD TV, the show was nominated three times by the Writers Guild of America for “Outstanding Writing of a Comedy/Variety Series.” Born in Defiance, Ohio, and later raised in Western Springs, Illinois, Hitchcock received his Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a proud alumnus of The Groundlings, Los Angeles’ premiere comedy and improvisational troupe.

Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett (PMC Podcast Ep 15 – click HERE):

Michael J. Nelson: Michael J. Nelson is the former host and writer of the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award-winning Mystery Science Theater 3000. Since that time, he has appeared on numerous radio and TV shows, penned a regular column for TV Guide, and authored best-selling books for both HarperCollins and Abrams. His first book, Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese, thrilled critics, including Richard Schickel of Time Magazine, who said of Mike, “He’s more fun than a barrel of Val Kilmers… Smarter than a roomful of Patrick Swayzes… and almost as hilarious as Keanu Reeves.” Mike’s laugh-out-loud follow-up, Mind Over Matters, prompted Kirkus Reviews to enthuse, “From someplace called Minnesota comes a Nelson funnier than Ozzie, Ricky, Lord or Half,” and even dared to compare him to another legendary writer, saying of his Serious Speech to Business People, “[It] could easily precede [Robert] Benchley’s immortal Treasurer’s Report.” And Kirkus Reviews loved his novel, Death Rat!, saying, “Fast-paced, outrageous and funny, first-novelist Nelson’s mockery of media mendacity is as biting as La Dolce Vita or Network–only funnier!” Mike speaks all over the country, is a frequent guest on radio and television, and along with Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy sells out theaters with his RiffTrax Live events. Check out all of their hilarious riffs at RiffTrax.com. Kevin Murphy: Kevin Murphy has cultivated the act of talking back to the movies into an art form and a career. For ten years on the Peabody Award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000, Kevin wrote, directed, and starred as the plucky red robot Tom Servo. Classic episodes of MST3K, as its legion of fans call it, continue to be one of Rhino Home Video’s top-selling DVD series. He can be heard riffing with Mike Nelson and Bill Corbett at RiffTrax.com. Kevin created the ultimate movie-lover’s marathon by going to movie theaters around the globe every single day for a year, chronicling the event in the bestselling book A Year at the Movies: One Man’s Filmgoing Odyssey. Covering Kevin’s movie-watching adventures in over a hundred cities in ten countries on three continents, the book became a top 100 seller on Amazon and won national critical praise. Time’s Richard Corliss called the book “brimful of intelligent passion about films and filmgoing” while The Onion described it as “Lively, entertaining, diverse, sometimes fascinating, and deeply telling.” Publishers Weekly declared Kevin “a highbrow man of the people.” No armchair critic he, Kevin has worked in nearly every aspect of television and film production. Among his adventures, Kevin co-wrote a medieval time-travel comedy screenplay for Sam Raimi; he fought rain and mosquitoes while working as a key grip on a low-budget horror film; line-produced a stylish indie noir thriller; and experienced all the horrors of pitching and producing a feature film for Universal Studios. While serving as a coffee-running grunt on the set of the movie Mrs. Soffel, Kevin had the unique privilege to watch a hung-over Mel Gibson vomit on the caboose of an antique train. Kevin’s movie commentaries have been a regular feature on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, and his eye for bad film earned him the “Bottom Shelf” column for Total Movie Magazine. Currently he’s writing a new book about the state of the American movie culture tentatively titled “Why Hollywood Sucks.” Kevin lives and works in Minnesota with his partner Jane and their ancient Cocker Spaniel, Humphrey, but continues to travel the world, watching movies everywhere he goes. Bill Corbett: Bill Corbett is a former writer for Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the Sci-Fi Channel, and previously on Comedy Central. He was also a performer on the show, providing the voice of the robot Crow (version 2.0) and embarrassing himself by playing various other strange characters — including the all-powerful but clueless alien The Observer (a.k.a. “Brain Guy”). He currently collaborates with Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy at RiffTrax.com. Corbett is also a screenwriter and playwright. Corbett’s screenplay Starship Dave, co-written with Rob Greenberg, was made into the film Meet Dave by 20th Century Fox Studio. His show, MY MONSTER, with Joseph Scrimshaw, was performed to rave reviews at SF Sketchfest. His play THE BIG SLAM has been produced at numerous theaters across the U.S., including Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C.; ACT in Seattle; and actor Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, Michigan. He has been a contributing writer to National Public Radio’s PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION and ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, and is co-creator of the animated web series POKER NIGHT on Icebox.com. Corbett has also been an actor in the resident acting companies at the Guthrie Theater and the Berkshire Theater Festival, and has taught playwriting and screenwriting at Kenyon College in Ohio, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and many other universities and schools. He’s a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he earned an MFA in playwriting and screenwriting. Before that, he received a BA from Yale College. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Corbett currently spends a lot of time in Los Angeles, partying into the wee hours with stars like Skeet Ulrich, Tony Danza, and Harry Hamlin. But he actually lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife Virginia, their daughter Molly, and a small Jack Russell Terrier who really runs the house. He hopes someday to raise alpacas.

Simon Helberg (PMC Podcast Ep 14 – click HERE):

Hilarious comic actor Simon Helberg currently stars as physics nerd Howard Wolowitz on the smash CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory. He played the villainous Moist in Joss Whedon’s internet phenomenon Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and was a series regular on MadTV. He played sketch performer Alex Dwyer on Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip, and had a recurring role on Joey. Other television appearances include Arrested Development, Less Than Perfect, Reno 911!, Unscripted, Life on a Stick, Undeclared, Quintuplets, Popular and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Simon recently starred as Rabbi Scott in the Coen Brothers character study A Serious Man, and has appeared in the films Good Night, and Good Luck, Mumford, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Evan Almighty, For Your Consideration, The TV Set, A Cinderella Story and Van Wilder. Along with Derek Waters, he starred in the Super Deluxe web series Derek and Simon: The Show, which was produced by Bob Odenkirk. The son of actor Sandy Helberg, he attended the Tisch School of the Arts at the New York University, and also trained at the Atlantic Theater Company.

Matthew Lillard (PMC Podcast Ep 13 – click HERE):

Matthew Lillard, a veteran of both stage and screen, is well known for his performances in over 50 films and television shows over the last 14 years. With titles like Scream, Without a Paddle, Wing Commander, Summer Catch, Hackers, Thir13ten Ghosts and Scooby Doo 1 & 2, Lillard is associated with a number of Hollywood Box Office hits totaling over $600 million dollars in revenue worldwide. He received critical success with independent titles SLC Punk! and Ed Burn’s The Groomsmen and debuted three films at the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival. Upcoming films include Alexander Payne’s The Descendants with George Clooney and Shrinking Charlotte with Fred Willard and Sam Trammell. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and New York’s prestigious Circle in the Square, the award winning actor has been the Artistic Director of theatre companies in both Los Angeles and New York City. As Director of the ‘Summoners Ensemble’ he helped create the hugely popular FESTIVAL OF FORTUNES in New York. As a Producer, he premiered One of Our Own at the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival, one of only 16 films accepted into the competition. Spooner, which he Co-Produced with Johnathan Schwartz (Wristcutters: A Love Story and Funny Games starring Naomi Watts) has won awards in 5 of the 7 film festivals it’s competed in. Additionally, Lillard executive produced the film Spanish Judges with Vincent D’Onofrio and Valeria Golino. He has also directed two shorts: Come Home Soon for the Vancouver Film School and Dr. God Presents The Story of Santa.

Cristine Rose (PMC Podcast Ep 12 – click HERE):

Cristine Rose is a super familiar face—the versatile character actresses has appeared in over 100 different television shows over the last twenty plus years! She starred as Petrelli matriarch Angela on NBC’s smash Heroes; recurs as Ted’s remarried mother on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother; guested as Sheriff Brock’s first wife Lydia on Picket Fences; and portrayed Barbara Bueller on the TV series adaptation of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Other TV work includes Providence, Charmed, Two and a Half Men, ER, NCIS, CSI, The Wonder Years, Growing Pains, Just the Ten of Us, Murder She Wrote, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dharma & Greg, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Malcolm in the Middle, 7th Heaven, Beverly Hills 90210, Ally McBeal, The Famous Teddy Z, Boston Legal, Crossing Jordan, Ellen, Nash Bridges, Night Court, Big Love, Six Feet Under, Moonlighting, Newhart and Murphy Brown. Film work includes Ishtar, He’s Just Not That Into You, and the soon to be seen Take Me Home and Jeffie Was Here, opposite Ken Marino and PMC’s own Vanessa Ragland!

Oscar Nunez (PMC Podcast Ep 11 – click HERE):

Cuban-born comedic actor Oscar Nunez began improvising with The Shock of Funny Improv troupe in New York City before moving to Los Angeles and joining the Groundlings Sunday Company. He currently stars as Oscar Martinez on NBC’s The Office, for which he has received the 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award (for Best Comedy Ensemble), a 2007 Emmy (for Best Webisode), and the 2009 Alma Award (for Best TV Comedy Actor). He also starred in and created Comedy Central’s Halfway Home, and appeared on 24, Reno 911!, Malcolm in the Middle, and MadTV. He recently stole scenes as waiter/dancer/gardener/priest Ramone in the Sandra Bullock smash comedy The Proposal, and also appeared in Beethoven’s Big Break, The Italian Job and When Do We Eat?

Dani Pudi (PMC Podcast Ep 11 – click HERE):

Danny Pudi had a breakout year in 2009 with his standout role in NBC’s new hit comedy Community. Pudi stars as fast-talking pop culture junkie “Abed,” opposite Chevy Chase and Joel McHale in the single-camera comedy about a band of misfits who attend Greendale Community College. Community premiered as NBC’s highest rated comedy debut in three and half years and Pudi’s “Abed” has quickly emerged as a favorite of both fans and TV Critics alike. Daily Variety recently named Pudi one of “TV’s Top 10: News Faces for Fall.” Community airs Thursday nights at 8:00 PM. Half-Indian and half-Polish, Pudi was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. He graduated from Marquette University, where he was the recipient of the inaugural Chris Farley Scholarship. Pudi studied Improv at The Second City Chicago’s Conservatory program and is a founding member of Siblings of Doctors, a trio of Indian-American comics that perform sketch comedy and Improv at various comedy festivals around the country. His LA stage credits include Huck & Holden (Black Dahlia Theatre), NBC’s Diversity Showcase (Falcon Theatre), Token City (Comedy Central Workspace) and the staged readings Loyalties (Pacific Resident Theatre) and Air Guitar High (Pasadena Playhouse). Pudi’s other television credits include recurring roles on hit dramas Greek and Gilmore Girls and guest starring roles on The Bill Engvall Show and ER. His recent film credits include Paramount’s Road Trip 2: Beerpong and the upcoming independent Thunder Geniuses from director Michael Clancy. He’ll soon start filming the horror comedy Knights of Badassness, with Steve Zahn and Peter Dinklage.

Mo Collins (PMC Podcast Ep 10 – click HERE):

Equally adept at improv, sketch and comedic acting, Mo Collins played a myriad of memorable characters on 153 episodes of FOX’s late-night sketch show MadTV, including Lorraine Swanson, Doreen Larkin, Crispy Bangs Kathy, Rosa, Jenny Jones, Trina and Liz Whitman. She played Bluth receptionist/business model Starla on Arrested Development, and Pawnee Today host Joan on Parks & Recreation. Other TV appearances include Modern Family, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Joey, Pushing Daisies, Just Shoot Me, Ally McBeal, According to Jim, Family Guy, Californication, King of the Hill and Six Feet Under. She played speed-dater Gina in The 40-year-old Virgin, and appeared in the films Jiminy Glick in Lalawood and Knocked Up.

Linda Cardellini (PMC Podcast Ep 09 – click HERE):

Hailing from Redwood City, CA, Linda Cardellini is a popular film and television actress perhaps best known for playing ‘Lindsay Weir’ on Freaks and Geeks and ‘Nurse Samantha Taggart’ on ER. On the small screen, she voices ‘Bliss Goode’ on Mike Judge’s The Goode Family and has appeared on Robot Chicken, Cupid, Boy Meets World, 3^rd Rock From the Sun, Human Giant and the Larry McMurtry mini-series Comanche Moon, where she played Gus’ great love, Clara Forsythe. Film credits include Brokeback Mountain, Scooby-Doo, Legally Blonde, Grandma’s Boy, Dead Man on Campus, and the upcoming The Irishman.

Paul F. Tompkins (PMC Podcast Ep 08 – click HERE or Ep 43 – click HERE):

Originally from Philadelphia, PA, where he started performing stand-up comedy in 1986, Paul F. Tompkins moved to Hollywood, CA in 1994 where he met comic actor Jay Johnston, with whom he crafted the live sketch show The Skates. This led Paul to a stint as a writer and performer on HBO’s Mr. Show with Bob and David – where he was nominated for an Emmy award for writing. Paul has appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Late Night With Conan O’Brien, NewsRadio, The Sarah Silverman Program, Weeds, Frasier, Dr. Katz, Pushing Daisies, and hosted VH1’s Best Week Ever, where he quipped on the latest in pop culture. Film work includes There Will Be Blood, Magnolia, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, Drones and The Informant! He’s released two comedy albums—“Impersonal,” and “Freak Wharf,” both available through iTunes and aspecialthing.com. He performs regularly at Largo in Los Angeles and comedy clubs all over the U.S. Keep track of him at www.paulftompkins.com.

Keith Coogan (PMC Podcast Ep 07 – click HERE):

A talented actor, writer and director, Keith Coogan made his first television appearance when he was one and half, hugging his grandfather Jackie on This is Your Life. Dozens of television and film appearances followed, including recurring roles on The Waltons, Eight is Enough, CHiPS, Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, Growing Pains and Laverne & Shirley. He lent his voice to Young Tod, the Fox, in Disney’s The Fox and the Hound, before his starring role as Brad in the beloved teen flick Adventures in Babysitting. He played Patrick, cousin to Jon Cryer’s stockbroker-hiding-from-the-mob in Hiding Out; Snuffy in the boarding-school-under-siege in Toy Soldiers; and slacker Kenny in Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, uttering the iconic line “The dishes are DONE, man!” Other film work includes Cheetah, Book of Love, Downhill Willie, Under the Boardwalk, In the Army Now and Cousins. Inspired by Jill and Julia, Coogan is conducting a Monologue a Day Project, in which he performs a different solo piece daily from television, film and the theatre—you can check it out at www.monologueadayproject.blogspot.com

Mather Zickel (PMC Podcast Ep 06 – click HERE):

Handsome, comedic character actor Mather Zickel is perhaps best known as best-man Kieran in Jonathan Demme’s acclaimed indie film Rachel Getting Married. He began his career as a grave-digging rocker in Caught Up, and soon after portrayed Bill Murray in the Gilda Radner TV biopic Gilda Radner: It’s Always Something. A frequent collaborator with members of The State, he portrayed psychotic District Attorney Mike Powers on Reno 911!, news reporter Louis La Fonda in The Ten, Alan in the Ken Marino-penned Diggers, and the Branch Director in Balls of Fury. Other film and TV work includes I Love You, Man, Royal Pains, Cupid, Wainy Days, and Party Down. You may also know him as Carter in the web series fake soap opera Horrible People.

Chris Hardwick (PMC Podcast Ep 05 – click HERE):

Chris Hardwick currently hosts and produces Web Soup on G4 (it’s a network!). He also blabs about gadgets on Attack of the Show (same network!) He blogs it up daily on Nerdist.com and occasionally tweets useful things to 1.2 million people on Twitter. Every so often he writes for Wired Magazine. Every so often, he used to host MTV’s Singled Out, where he did not have sexual relations with Jenny McCarthy. A handful of times a year he makes up one half of the musical comedy duo Hard ‘n Phirm and most weekends he says stand-up comedy jokes at people as both halves of himself. And about, oh, once a week or so he puts out the Nerdist Podcast, where he chats up a famous friend or two along with Wed Soup scribe Jonah Ray and Mac Nerd Matt Mira.

Bobby Campo (PMC Podcast Ep 04 – click HERE):

Handsome young actor Bobby Campo starred as Nick O’Bannon, the troubled teen with deathly visions in the hit 3-D horror sequel The Final Destination, which was number one at the box office for three weeks. He played Chris Lopez in the Savage Steve Holland-directed Legally Blondes, and the gleeful jerk Trent on ABC Family’s Greek. Television guest work includes CSI: Miami, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, South Beach, Mental, and the television films Katrina and Vampire Bats (opposite Craig Ferguson!).

Deanna Russo (PMC Podcast Ep 03 – click HERE):

Deanna Russo most recently appeared on Gossip Girl and White Collar, though she is most often recognized for her work on Knight Rider and The Young and the Restless. A New Jersey native, Deanna moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Rollins College to pursue acting full-time. It didn’t take her long to break into voice-overs, providing voices for two of Disney’s translated critically acclaimed Miyazaki films. She went on to book over 30 national commercials; most famously her campaign for Axe Body Spray, acknowledged by TBS in 2007 as one of the World’s Funniest Commercials. Deanna also appeared on CSI, CSI: NY, Charmed, How I Met Your Mother and NCIS. Over the last few years, Deanna has made a successful transition into directing, winning Best Narrative Short at the 2007 New Orleans Film Festival for her short A Taste of Cream. She is currently directing a comic-strip style web series, Real Life with Married People. She is also a student of The Groundlings and The Upright Citizens Brigade.

Janet Varney (PMC Podcast Ep 02 – click HERE):

Janet Varney works as an actor, writer, and producer in Los Angeles. She has most recently appeared on such shows as Bones, Better Off Ted, How I Met Your Mother, and has been recurring as studio executive Amy Miller on HBO’s Entourage. She completed a pilot for ABC opposite Leah Remini, Matthew Lillard, and Jonathan Silverman, recurs as a panelist on Chelsea Lately, and is enjoying her fifth year as host of TBS’s Dinner and a Movie. She performs live with improv group Poke, produces and hosts the variety show Theme Park with Cole Stratton, and can be seen online alongside Randy and Jason Sklar in both seasons of the popular web series Back on Topps. She also writes and records for Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s Michael J. Nelson at Rifftrax.com. Janet is co-founder and co-director of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival.

Samm Levine (PMC Podcast Ep 01 – click HERE):

Best known as geek and aspiring comic Neil Schweiber on the short-lived by much-loved Judd Apatow show Freaks and Geeks, Samm Levine is familiar face for his many television and film roles. On the small screen, he’s appeared on Undeclared, How I Met Your Mother, That’s So Raven, Veronica Mars, Just Shoot Me, Spin City, That 70’s Show, Entourage, Family Guy, Ed, The Drew Carey Show and My Name Is Earl. Film work includes Sydney White, Not Another Teen Movie, and Club Dread. He played Pfc. Hischberg, one of the Basterds in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Samm is a frequent guest on the internet sensation The Kevin Pollak Chat Show, and can be seen often on the comedy stages of LA. He will soon be seen in the new web series Vamped Out.