Guy Branum is a writer and comedian best known as head writer and sketch performer on X-Play on the G4 network. Branum was born November 12, 1979 in Hyderabad, India, and grew up near Yuba City, California, U.S.. Very large for his age, he played football in high school. He attended the University of California, Berkeley from 1994-1998 where he was a history and political science major. He was a minor celebrity, writing a column for the Daily Californian, the most famous of which brought the United States Secret Service to his apartment for a column in November 1997 before the Big Game between Berkeley and Stanford University, in which he made mocking suggestions that Berkeley students attack Stanford Freshman Chelsea Clinton. [1], [2] [3]. He was also a leader in campus politics on the Cal United Masturbaters party. He played quizbowl for the Berkeley Quizbowl Team. He then moved to Minnesota, where he attended the University of Minnesota Law School, and played quizbowl as well. He was on the U of M Quiz Bowl team which placed third at CBI nationals in 1999. After graduating he returned to California. After being recommended by co-hostess Laura Swisher, Guy was hired as a writer for Unscrewed with Martin Sargent while it was still on TechTV in San Francisco. On Unscrewed, he regularly appeared as a sweater model and as The Ambassador of Gay. He was also a writer and producer on G4tv.com. Guy is now the head writer on the G4 channel flagship program X-Play and contributed on the comedy podcast, Weezy and the Swish, as both a special podcast guest and as co-host filling in for Laura Swisher. Branum recently stated in an e-mail to Gamelemons that he is a homosexual. [4]
