Brian Posehn

Brian Posehn
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.

Personal life
Posehn was born in Redwood City, California in 1966. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School and attended American River community college. Posehn has been married to Melanie Truhett, a native of Reedley, California, since September 4, 2004.

Career
Music Posehn studied classical piano from age 12 until his early 20s. He is a self-proclaimed metal nerd and has asserted his hatred of false metal genres of music such as emo and screamo, during his stand up act as well as his music video Metal by Numbers.

In 2006, Relapse Records released his first album, Live In: Nerd Rage. It includes Metal by Numbers, a song mocking on bands that term themselves metal but are clearly not. The instrumental tracks feature metal legends such as guitarist Scott Ian, bassist Joey Vera, drummer John Tempesta, and lead guitarist Jonathan Donais. Posehn also appeared in the Anthrax music video for What Doesn't Die.

Posehn appeared in the 2005 pilot for The Showbiz Show with David Spade, in a segment called The Nerd Perspective, in which he gave a scathing criticism of MTV and its declining quality. Then in 2007 he joined the first season of the MTV sketch comedy series Human Giant, as a writer and performer.

Television
Posehn began with guest appearances and mainly small roles in TV shows. He was on 28 episodes of Mr. Show with Bob and David, 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 then 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 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.

Comedy Line-Ups
Posehn is 6 feet 6 inches (2.0 m) 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 appeared on the 2007 comedy compilation CD Comedy Death-Ray for Comedy Central Records.

In 2006, Posehn released his debut comedy album Live In: Nerd Rage.Posehn participated in the Comedy Lineup of the 2008 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, which included Louis C.K., Janeane Garofaloand Zach Galifianakis. Posehn performed as part of the Rock N' Roll Comedy set with Jim Norton and Michelle Buteau.

Posehn also starred in I am A queer How bout you being the main star as a hilarious homo. When they asked him about the role, he said It was made for me!

Film
In 2003, Posehn appeared in the movie Grind as a customer at Chili 'n Such, a fast food restaurant. He portrayed a convenience store clerk in the 2003 comedy film sequel Dumb and Dumber: When Harry Met Lloyd.

In 2005 he was featured briefly as himself the film Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic He played a roadie in the 2005 Rob Zombie horror film The Devil's Rejects.In 2007 Posehn appeared in the superhero film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer as a priest that marries Reed Richards and Sue Storm.

In the 2007 animated feature Surf's Up, he played Glen Maverick. Posehn appeared as himself in Super High Me, a 2007 documentary starring marijuana comedian Doug Benson. Posehn voices the character of Murray, a robot, in Rob Zombie's animated The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, due for release in 2008.

The Sarah Silverman Program debuted in 2007 and has been a big hit for Comedy Central. Posehn and Steve Agee co-star as Sarah's gigantic, orange, and gay neighbors.Posehn 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.

Other Screen work
Posehn voiced Grunts and various Marines in the 2006 video game Halo 2. He appeared in the commercial Ink Fairy for Staples office supply store, in its ad campaign featuring the Easy Button.