Brian Huskey (born September 8, 1968) is an American character actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his roles in comedy programs such as '' People of Earth'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He also provides the voice of Regular Sized Rudy on the animated comedy ''

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Early life and education

Huskey was born in

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, and did not get to know his biological father until he was around age 15. He attended

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for the entirety of grade school and high school, graduating in 1987. He attended

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, graduating with a degree in English and minor in photography. Around this time, he began to play bass guitar in the band Bicycle Face. Huskey later relocated to

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to attend phototography school and worked as a photographer's assistant. He met and was later roommates with

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Career

Huskey studied and performed improvisational comedy during the start of the original

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(UCB) in

and had each of the "UCB4" (

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, Matt Walsh,

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and Ian Roberts) as teachers. From there, he frequently appeared in comedy sketches on ''

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'' for many years and was a panelist on VH1's ''

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''. At UCB, Huskey was a member of the sketch comedy troupe The Naked Babies, with comedians Rob Corddry, Seth Morris and

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. He has since worked on Corddry's

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series ''

'', playing the role of Chet the creepy EMT worker, as well as alter ego Mark Splorn. Huskey also appeared as correspondent Duncan Birch on the IFC cable news satire ''

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''. Other programs in which Huskey co-starred include ''

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'' and '' Free Radio''. Huskey also appeared on the sitcoms ''

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'' and ''

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''. He made some notable early television appearances in a series of commercials opposite Molly Erdman in a campaign for Sonic Drive-In. Both actors would later be fired from this role as the result of an ''Onion News Network'' veterans parody he wrote and performed. Huskey has appeared in commercials for

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, and, in 2011, "The Swagger Wagon" ad campaign for the

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. He has appeared in a campaign for

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alongside Justin Timberlake. Huskey has also made many guest appearances on comedy programs including ''

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'', '' Parks and Recreation'', ''

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'', '' Happy Endings'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

''. He has appeared in films such as '' Superbad'', '' Step Brothers'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He starred in the YouTube miniseries ''If Google Was A Guy'' on the YouTube channel

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, acting as an anthropomorphic visualization of the search engine

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. In 2014, Huskey co-wrote the film ''A Better You'', with UCB co-founder Matt Walsh. Huskey starred in the film and Walsh directed. He co-created, co-wrote and starred in his own Adult Swim television specials, '' Mr. Neighbor's House'' in 2016, and '' Mr. Neighbor's House 2'' in 2018. The dark comic series is described as a David Lynch-esque kid's show that plays with the fragmentation of the title character's mind. In 2020, he began co-hosting the podcast ''Bald Talk'' alongside

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, where they interview other fellow balding comedic actors. Huskey has also been a regular on many other comedic podcasts, including ''

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'', ''Improv4Humans'', and ''

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'' where he plays the role of Seth Wompler.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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Upright Citizens Brigade Theater profile
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