Biography
-
Founded In
Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States
The Midnight Show is a Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group which performs monthly at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Founded in 2008, the show owes its notoriety not only to production of several viral internet videos on Funny or Die and YouTube (including "Twilight … with Cheeseburgers," "Drive Recklessly," "Car Ad with Andy Richter," "Immortal Dog" and "Slider," starring Dax Shepard), but also to the fact that the show has functioned as a feeder of talent to the cast and writing staff of Saturday Night Live. The show contains both live and pre-filmed sketch material, guided by a celebrity host. Past hosts have included Andy Richter, Dax Shepard, Fred Willard, Jerry O'Connell, Trevor Moore, Jerry Minor, Jordan Peele, Michaela Watkins, Matt Walsh, Paul F. Tompkins, Steve Agee, James Van Der Beek, and John Ennis.
The Midnight Show is performed and written by Stephanie Allynne, former SNL writer Heather Anne Campbell, James Pumphrey, Eric Moneypenny, Hal Rudnick, Jeff Sloniker, Nic Wegener, Joe Chandler, and Curtis Rainsberry, is produced by Janel SantaCruz and Michael Busch, with stage direction by Joe Wagner and video direction by Peter Atencio, Payman Benz, Tyler Gillett and others.
Artist descriptions on Last.fm are editable by everyone. Feel free to contribute!
All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
