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11 Facts About Nick Wiger

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Nick Wiger is the co-host of the popular weekly podcast Doughboys, which reviews chain restaurants with guests and includes additional segments centered around snack food and related topics.

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Nick Wiger is the co-host of Get Played, a podcast about video games.

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Nick Wiger was raised in Lakewood, California and is an alumnus of Long Beach Polytechnic High School.

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Nick Wiger began his career as a video game tester and designer for Activision.

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Nick Wiger began studying, performing, and teaching as an improvisation and sketch comedian at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Nick Wiger most notably was a member of the sketch and improv team A Kiss From Daddy, alongside comedians Paul Rust, Eva Anderson, Mookie Blaiklock, Neil Campbell, Michael Cassady, Dave Horwitz, Allan McLeod, and Harris Wittels.

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In 2020, Nick Wiger was a writer for the first season of the Disney+ show Earth to Ned.

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On May the 4th, 2020, Nick Wiger appeared on The George Lucas Talk Shows charity fundraiser, raising money for the out of work employees of the UCB Theatre in New York which had shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Nick Wiger created the comedy podcast Doughboys with comedy writer Mike Mitchell in 2015.

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Nick Wiger's fans call him the "Burger Boy" and refer to themselves as members of the "Burger Brigade".

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Since June 2019, Nick Wiger is the co-host of Get Played, a podcast about video games.