Michael Colton

Michael Colton (born 1975) is a journalist, writer and comedian.[1] With John Aboud, he was a regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows, including I Love the '80s.[2]

Personal life

Colton attended Newton North High School, where he wrote a humor column for the student newspaper.[3] He graduated from Harvard University, where he was an editor at both the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Crimson.[3]

He married lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004.[4] The two have a daughter.[5]

Colton says his comedy inspirations include Woody Allen, The Simpsons, his father, and a MIT math professor.[3]

Career

Colton scored a 1600 on the SAT and was a contributor to an SAT guidebook entitled "Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT."[3]

In the late 1990s, Colton was a journalist at The Washington Post.[5] He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Observer, the Washington City Paper, Brill's Content, and McSweeny's.[1]

During the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007–2008, Colton and Aboud created the website AMPTP.com, a parody of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' official website, AMPTP.org.[6][7]

From 2000 to 2003, Colton and Aboud ran Modern Humorist, an entertainment company based in Brooklyn, NY best known for its online magazine.[3][8]

With Aboud, Colton has written the movies The Penguins of Madagascar and The Comebacks. They have also written the television shows Allen Gregory, Sit Down, Shut Up, Childrens Hospital, Newsreaders, and Leverage.[1]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role
2003 VH1 Big in 03 Consultant
2004 The Wrong Coast Writer
2004 I Love the '90s Himself/Panelist
2005 Last Laugh '05 Consultant
2005 CMT: 20 Merriest Christmas Videos Himself
2005 I Love the '90s: Part Deux Himself
2005 I Love the '80s 3-D Himself
2005 I Love the Holidays Himself
2006 I Love Toys Himself
2006 I Love the 70s: Volume 2 Himself
2008 I Love the New Millennium Himself
2008 Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins Himself
2009 Sit Down, Shut Up Executive Story Editor, Writer
2009 Black to the Future Himself
2009 The Great Debate Himself
2009 100 Most Shocking Music Moments Himself
2010 Leverage Executive Story Editor, Writer
2010 A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweet-A-Thon for Haiti Himself
2010 Undateable Himself
2011 Allen Gregory Writer, Co-Producer
2014 I Love the 2000s Himself

Movies

Year Title Role
2007 The Comebacks Writer
2011 The Bungalow Writer, Producer, Director
2014 The Penguins of Madagascar Writer

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About Us". coltonaboud.com. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Michael Colton". Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "His job is a joke". The Boston Globe. October 19, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Carla Pereira, Michael Colton". The New York Times. May 30, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Michael Colton '97". Harvardwood. February 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Welcome To AMPTP.com (not AMPTP.org)". Deadline. December 10, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ "amptp.net". Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Inside Modern Humorist with Co-Founders Michael Colton and John Aboud". Splitsider. April 28, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.

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