Brian Huskey

Brian Huskey (born September 8, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his role as Chet on the Adult Swim comedy series Childrens Hospital and Victor on the Comedy Central series Another Period. He co-stars in the TBS comedy People of Earth.

Early life and education

Huskey was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and did not meet his biological father until he was 17.^[1] He attended Charlotte Country Day School for the entirety of grade school graduating in 1987.^[1] He attended University of North Carolina at Greensboro graduating with a degree in English and minor in photography. Around this time he began to play in a band 'Bicycle Face'.^[1]

Huskey later relocated to New York City to attend photo school and worked as a photographer's assistant. He would then meet and later be roommates with Rob Corddry.^[1]

Career

Huskey studied and performed improvisational comedy during the start of the original Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCB) in New York City and had each of the "UCB4" (Matt Besser, Matt Walsh, Amy Poehler and Ian Roberts) as teachers. From there, he frequently appeared in comedy sketches on Late Night with Conan O'Brien for many years and was a panelist on VH1's Best Week Ever.^[1]

At UCB, Huskey was a member of the sketch comedy troupe "The Naked Babies" with comedians Rob Corddry, Seth Morris and John Ross Bowie. He has since worked on Corddry's Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital, 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 The Onion News Network.^[2]

Other programs in which Huskey co-starred include Damage Control and Free Radio. Huskey also appeared on the sitcoms Selfie and The Real O'Neals.^[2] 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 The Onion News Network veterans parody he wrote and performed.^[1]

Huskey has also made many guest appearances on comedy programs including Community, Parks and Recreation, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, Worst Week, Happy Endings, Animal Practice, The Inbetweeners, Workaholics, and Veep. He appeared in films such as Superbad, Step Brothers, Semi-Pro, and Meet Dave.^[2]

Huskey appeared in a number of commercials including for Sonic Drive-In as well as Wendy's, and, in 2011, the "The Swagger Wagon" ad campaign for the Toyota Sienna.^[3]

Huskey starred in the YouTube mini series "If Google Was Guy" on the YouTube channel CollegeHumor, acting as an anthropogenic visualisation of the search engine Google.^[4]

In 2014, Huskey co-wrote the film A Better You, with UCB co-founder Matt Walsh. Huskey starred in the film and Walsh directed.

Personal life

Huskey is divorced and has a daughter.

Filmography

References

External links

• Brian Huskey at the Internet Movie Database
• Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Profile