Brian Posehn

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

Career

Posehn appeared in the 2003 movie Grind as a customer at the store Chili 'n Such, the fast food restaurant that the main characters work in at the beginning of the movie. Posehn has had mainly small roles in TV shows- he voiced Jim in Mission Hill and Del Swanson in 3 South. He appeared on an episode of Seinfeld, "The Burning", playing a patient, where 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 one episode 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 was also cast in the movie Dumb and Dumberer, where he played the gas station attendant, and was the messenger delivering the manuscript in which Joey's soap opera character "Dr Drake Ramoray" is killed off on Friends. He was also featured briefly as "himself" alongside Sarah Silverman and Laura Silverman in 2005's .

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 supposedly declining quality. He also was featured on the documentary series Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime.

Trivia

He is 6'7
In 2005, he had a memorable role in Rob Zombie's film The Devil's Rejects.
Graduate of Sonoma Valley High School.
He was the voice of Brian in the Star Wars parody PC game Star Warped.
Is a self-proclaimed nerd- he enjoys comic books and also dubs himself a "metal nerd".
His Just Shoot Me character was related to actor Ray Liotta, who guest starred as himself on the series.
He was in the music video for "What Doesn't Die" by the metal band Anthrax

External links

[BrianPosehn.com] - his personal weblog
*[His biography]
[Kittenpants.org interview]
[Audio interview] on public radio show The Sound of Young America

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