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| Born | July 6 1966 Sacramento, California |
| Occupation | stand-up comedian, actor, writer |
| Website | http://www.brianposehn.com |
Brian Posehn (born July 6, 1966) 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.
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Biography
Career
Posehn has had mainly small roles in TV shows, including the voice of Jim in Mission Hill and Del Swanson in 3 South. He appeared on an episode of Seinfeld, "The Burning", playing a patient, when Kramer "was given" gonorrhea. Brian's character was to "act out" how a surgeon left a sponge in him, to a cast of medical students. In addition, he has done the voice of Gibbons, a tiny man, on some episodes of Tom Goes to the Mayor. In another Adult Swim production, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, he voiced the Wisdom Cube in the episode "The Cubing". Posehn portrayed a convenience store clerk in Dumb and Dumberer, and delivered the manuscript in which Joey Tribbiani's soap opera character "Dr. Drake Ramoray" is killed off in an episode of Friends. He appeared as two different characters in NewsRadio -- a fan with questions for Jimmy James at a book reading, and a member of Dave's a capella group "Chock Full of Notes." He voiced Grunts and various marines in Halo 2. Posehn appeared in the 2003 movie Grind as a customer at Chili 'n Such, a fast food restaurant where the main characters work. He was also featured briefly as "himself" alongside Sarah Silverman and Laura Silverman in 2005's Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. He also played Jimmy Cracker, roadie for Banjo and Sullivan, in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects. Posehn has also appeared in the commercial "Ink Fairy" for STAPLES office supply store, one of their ad campaign that features the "easy button." Posehn recently surfaced on The Showbiz Show with David Spade for a segment called "The Nerd Perspective". In the very first edition of "The Nerd Perspective," Posehn gave a scathing criticism of MTV and its declining quality. He also was featured on the documentary series Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime. He was also a writer and performer on season one of the MTV sketch comedy series, Human Giant. Currently, Posehn and Steve Agee co-star as the "gigantic, orange, and gay" neighbors of Sarah Silverman on the Comedy Central show The Sarah Silverman Program. In 2006 his first album, Live In: Nerd Rage, was released by Relapse Records.[1] It includes Metal by Numbers, a song mocking bands that term themselves "metal" but are clearly not. For the instrumental tracks, he was able to have accomplished metal "legends" such as guitarist Scott Ian, bassist Joey Vera, drummer John Tempesta, and lead guitarist Jonathan Donais. Scott Ian belonging to Anthrax, one of the bands that performed the two songs on his Live In: Nerd Rage album. Posehn co-wrote the comic book The Last Christmas published by Image Comics (ISBN 1582406766). He was also in the Anthrax music video for "What Doesn't Die". He will voice the character of Murray, a robot, in Rob Zombie's upcoming animated film, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. He also appeared in an episode of Thank God You're Here. In the summer of 2007 he appeared in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as a priest that marries Reed Richards and Sue Storm and the animated feature Surf's Up as Glen.
Personal life
Posehn was born in Redwood City, California. He is 6' 6" tall, but refers to himself as 6'6.6" in his stand up, calling himself "The Height of the Beast", a reference to the number of the beast. He is a graduate of Sonoma Valley High School and attended American River community college. Posehn studied classical piano from age 12 until his early 20's. He is now a self-proclaimed "metal nerd" and preaches his hatred of "false metal" genres of music such as emo, screamo, and hardcore, during his stand up act as well as his music video so appropriately called "Metal By Numbers". This act has earned him the respect and following of many heavy metal lovers worldwide. On a 2006 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Posehn stated that he is often approached by fans who say "You're that one guy from that one show." The fans are usually talking about Just Shoot Me. An incident of this was also shown in The Comedians of Comedy. His last name is pronounced "Po-Sain". From time to time, on Mr. Show commentaries, the other cast members refer to him as "Po-Sin".
Family
He has been married to Melanie Truhett, a native of Reedley, California, since September 4 2004.
References
External links
- Brian Posehn at the Internet Movie Database
- BrianPosehn.com, his personal weblog
- Biography at BrianPosehn.com
- Metal By Numbers music video
