BRIAN POSEHN

'Brian Posehn' (born July 6, 1966) is an American actor and comedian, known for his roles as mail clerk Kevin Liotta on ''Just Shoot Me!'' and as a cast member of HBO's ''Mr. Show''.

Contents

Biography

Career

Personal life

References

External links

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 midget, 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 random 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 ''. 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 most 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 of Anthrax, one of the "Big Four" of thrash metal on guitar, along with former Anthrax touring bassist and member of Armored Saint, Fates Warning and OSI bassist Joey Vera and John Tempesta of Exodus, Testament, White Zombie/Rob Zombie's solo work and The Cult on drums, and Jonathan Donais of Shadows Fall on lead guitar, all of which are members of Posehn, 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. He was in the Anthrax video "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 (US TV series)''. In the summer of 2007 he appeared in '' as a priest that marries Reed Richards and Sue Storm and the animated feature ''Surfs Up'' as Glen.

Personal life

Posehn was born in Sacramento, California. He is 6ft 7in, but refers to himself as ''6'6.6"'' in his stand up, calling himself "The Height of the Beast" referring to the number of the beast (666) of biblical fame. (Oddly enough, his birthdate is 7/6/66, one month after the supposed "Day of the Beast"). He is a graduate of Sonoma Valley High School.
Posehn is a self-proclaimed "metal nerd" who also enjoys comic books.
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."

References

1. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:syknikxfbb89

External links

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★ BrianPosehn.com - his personal weblog

★ His biography

★ Kittenpants.org interview

★ Metal By Numbers Music Video

★ Audio interview on public radio show ''The Sound of Young America''

★ Brian Posehn interview