36 Facts About John Hodgman

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John Kellogg Hodgman was born on June 3,1971 and is an American author, actor, and humorist.

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John Hodgman's writings have been published in One Story, The Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Wired and The New York Times Magazine, for which he is editor of the humor section.

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John Hodgman contributes to This American Life, and CBC Radio One's Wiretap.

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John Hodgman was the headline speaker at the 2009 Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, DC.

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John Hodgman attended the Heath School and Brookline High School, where he edited the underground magazine Samizdat, named for the grassroots dissident publishing movement produced under the Soviet Bloc.

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In 1994 John Hodgman graduated from Yale University with a degree in literature, focusing on literary criticism.

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John Hodgman has used his experience as an agent in his column "Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent" at McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

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John Hodgman appeared on The Daily Show on November 16,2005, to promote his book, The Areas of My Expertise.

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John Hodgman narrated a number of Venue Songs-themed setlists during the band's live shows in 2005, and has introduced the band while in the role of The Deranged Millionaire up to May 16,2007.

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John Hodgman appeared again with They Might Be Giants on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, on December 11,2009.

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In February 2006, John Hodgman appeared on Attack of the Show, a show that aired daily on G4, to share some insight with the host and promote his book The Areas of My Expertise.

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John Hodgman appeared in the North American Get a Mac advertising campaign for Apple Inc.

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In reality John Hodgman himself became a Mac user in 1984.

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In 2007, John Hodgman appeared in the "Bowie" episode of the HBO television series Flight of the Conchords.

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John Hodgman played the manager of a musical greeting card company who was considering using one of the band's songs for a greeting card.

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John Hodgman appeared in the episode "No Exit" of Battlestar Galactica, appearing as the civilian neurosurgeon, Dr Gerard.

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John Hodgman had earlier visited the set in 2005 to write about the show for The New York Times Magazine.

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John Hodgman appeared in the last two episodes of the first season of Bored to Death, "The Case of the Stolen Sperm" and "Take a Dive," as a literary reviewer who wrote a bad review that offended the main character.

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John Hodgman has since had multiple appearances in Season 5 as OS.

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Also, during the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in September 2009, John Hodgman provided color commentary with made up trivia about the winners.

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John Hodgman reprised this role for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards in August 2010.

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In 2012, John Hodgman guest-starred in an episode of Delocated called "Reunion Show," acting as the host of a fictional show-within-a-show.

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John Hodgman made a guest appearance on the sitcom series Husbands in its second season.

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In 2013, John Hodgman starred as "Special Agent Henry Topple" in Wired's first scripted web series Codefellas.

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John Hodgman appeared as public radio personality August Clementine in the episode "Anniversaries" of Parks and Recreation, which aired in February 2014.

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John Hodgman has a supporting role in the FX comedy Married, which premiered in July 2014.

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In December 2014, John Hodgman appeared in three episodes of the Amazon Studios series Mozart in the Jungle.

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In 2016, John Hodgman played the role of Travis, a local television station manager, in four episodes of the second season of Amazon's Red Oaks series.

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The program features John Hodgman acting as a judge adjudicating real-life disputes within a fictional courtroom setting.

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John Hodgman has been a guest on radio programs including WBEZ's This American Life, and The Sound of Young America, My Brother, My Brother and Me,[2] WFMU's The Best Show on WFMU, NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, North Carolina Public Radio's The State of Things, Live Wire Radio, and BBC's Museum of Curiosity.

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John Hodgman was a guest alongside Jonathan Coulton on episodes of You Look Nice Today.

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John Hodgman was a guest on This Week In Tech with Leo Laporte, Stuff You Should Know, and has been featured on the podcast Boing Boing TV.

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John Hodgman appeared in person and on the NPR radio broadcast of City Arts and Lectures, in a recorded interview by Dave Eggers, in front of a live studio audience on November 10,2008, at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, California.

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John Hodgman was a guest on Neil deGrasse Tyson's radio show StarTalk Radio on February 27,2011.

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John Hodgman appeared again on City Arts and Lectures, in front of a live audience at the Nourse Theater, interviewing Adam Savage on May 29,2013.

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John Hodgman appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor podcast on September 23,2016.