Brian Posehn Biography

Brian Posehn Biography.Brian Posehn is an American actor and comedian, known for his roles as mail clerk Kevin Liotta on NBC’s Just Shoot Me!, as a cast member of HBO’s Mr. Show, and as Brian Spukowski on Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program.

Movie appearances from Posehn include the 2003 comedy film sequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, Grind, the 2005 Rob Zombie horror film The Devil’s Rejects, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and the 2007 animated feature Surf’s Up, where he played Glen Maverick. Posehn appeared as himself in Super High Me, a 2007 documentary starring ‘marijuana comedian’ Doug Benson, Nerdcore Rising, a 2008 documentary about MC Frontalot and in a supporting role in Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic.

Brian Posehn voices the character of Murray, a robot, in Rob Zombie’s animated The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, due for release in 2009. He also voiced the character Hayashi in the English dub of Pom Poko.

Posehn began with guest appearances and mainly small roles in TV shows. He was on 28 episodes of Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995-1998), a sketch comedy series on HBO. In a 1996 episode of Friends, he delivered the manuscript in which Joey Tribbiani’s soap opera character “Dr. Drake Ramoray” is killed off. He appeared as two different characters in NewsRadio: a fan with questions for Jimmy James at a book reading (1997), and a member of Dave’s a cappella group “Chock Full o’ Notes” (1998). In the Seinfeld episode “The Burning” (1998), he played a patient, when Kramer “was given” gonorrhea. His character was instructed to “act out” to a group of medical students how a surgeon left a sponge in him post surgery.

Posehn appeared on 29 episodes of the NBC series Just Shoot Me! (1999-2003). Posehn played the voice of Jim in Mission Hill on the WB (1999-2002), and Del Swanson in 3 South on MTV (2002-2003). Posehn performed the voice of Gibbons, a tiny man, on several episodes of the Cartoon Network’s Tom Goes to the Mayor (2005-2006). On another Adult Swim production, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, he voiced the Wisdom Cube in the 2003 episode “The Cubing”.

Posehn played a mortician in several episodes of Comedy Central’s Reno 911.

Posehn was featured on the 2005 documentary series The Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime. He was in a 2007 episode of the improv series Thank God You’re Here on NBC.

Posehn most recently co-starred on The Sarah Silverman Program with Steve Agee as a gay couple who is friends with Silverman, and was a celebrity judge on the revived 1970s game show, The Gong Show with Dave Attell (2008), on Comedy Central.

He played himself in the episode “Spagett” of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, appered at the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, played the role of a physically disabled man (Scooter Man) in the 2nd season’s premiere episode “Slip of the Tongue” of Californication (2008), on Showtime, and played Dethklok’s second manager in the Metalocalypse episode “Dethsources”.

In 2006, Posehn released his debut comedy album Live In: Nerd Rage.

Posehn studied classical piano from age 12 until his early 20s. He is a self-proclaimed “metal head” and has asserted his hatred of “false metal” genres of music during his stand up act as well as his music video “Metal by Numbers”. In his stand-up act he has called the metal band Slayer “the most metal band ever.” Interviewed in 2007 about the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse and its fictional metal band “Dethklok”, he called the ersatz group “the mightiest metal band of all time”. He later voiced the character Melmord Fjordslorn in a 2008 episode of the show.

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