Cole Stratton is a Los Angeles-based actor, comic, podcaster, writer and producer. Before L.A., he spent nearly a decade in San Francisco, where he graduated from San Francisco State University.
Television appearances include: Nash Bridges, America's Most Wanted (featuring The Zodiac Killer), the Animal Planet original film The Retrievers, MTV's Yo Momma, and was a cast member on NBC's competitive comedy pilot Comedy Colosseum. Film projects include: Callback opposite Kevin Farley, Around the Fire, Dead Man on Campus and The Selling. Along with frequent collaborator Janet Varney, he's written and performed downloadable commentaries for RiffTrax,[1] an online venture helmed by Mystery Science Theater 3000's Michael J. Nelson.
Along with David Owen and Janet Varney, he is co-founder and co-director of SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival.[2] He also co-founded the Bay Area sketch collective Totally False People (who performed at the 2004 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado), and LA's improvising Pretty, Pretty Pony. He tours with the improv group Theme Park (featuring Oscar Nunez, Simon Helberg, Danny Pudi, Michael Hitchcock, Janet Varney and Jessica Makinson). He performs weekly in Santa Monica with M.I.'s Westside Comedy Theater's house improv team, The Cobranauts. He's also performed with Greg Proops, Patton Oswalt, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Rick Overton, Matt Walsh and Jeff Garlin.
He's the co-host of the Pop My Culture Podcast [3] with Vanessa Ragland. The podcast was named the #2 Best Comedy Podcast of the Moment by Rolling Stone,[4] and one of IFC's Top 10 Favorite Comedy Podcasts.[5] The episodes are available on iTunes and on the Nerdist network of podcasts.
