1. Paul Christian Scheer was born on January 31,1976 and is an American comedian, actor, filmmaker, and podcaster.
52 Facts About Paul Scheer
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Paul Scheer is known for voicing Chip Whistler in Disney's Big City Greens.
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Paul Scheer is the author of a memoir, Joyful Recollections of Trauma, which was published by HarperCollins in May 2024, and became a New York Times Bestseller.
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Paul Scheer attended Catholic schools during his childhood and graduated from St Anthony's High School.
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Paul Scheer began performing in high school with Chicago City Limits, a New York-based short-form improv group.
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Paul Scheer later attended New York University, where he majored in communication and education.
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In 1995, Paul Scheer became a member of New York City's longest-running Off-Broadway comedy show, Chicago City Limits.
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In 1998, while at NYU, Paul Scheer started performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City.
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Paul Scheer performed in multiple weekly shows, including Talk Show, The Real Real World and the house team Respecto Montalban.
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In 2002, Paul Scheer created and starred in Automatic Vaudeville at the Ars Nova theater, which The Hollywood Reporter called "one of the top five shows in the country".
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In 2006, Paul Scheer moved to Los Angeles and has been a regular performer at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Paul Scheer performed an improvised show based on audience members' Facebook profiles called FACEBOOK.
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In 2003, Paul Scheer was hired as a writer and performer for Oxygen's Meow TV.
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From 2004 to the conclusion of the show's first run in 2009, Paul Scheer was a regular cast member on VH1's Best Week Ever.
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In 2005, Paul Scheer began collaborating with comedians Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari, and Jason Woliner on short films.
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In 2009, Paul Scheer joined the semi-scripted FX comedy, The League, from Jeff and Jackie Marcus Schaffer about a group of friends in a fantasy football league.
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Paul Scheer plays Dr Andre Nowzick, a rich plastic surgeon whose naivete makes him the butt of many jokes.
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In 2015, Paul Scheer joined the cast of Fresh Off the Boat, an ABC comedy loosely based on a memoir by chef Eddie Huang.
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Paul Scheer played the recurring role of Mitch, whom Eddie Huang hired to be the host at a steakhouse restaurant.
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Paul Scheer appeared in 26 episodes over the show's six seasons.
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In 2017, Paul Scheer joined the sixth season of Veep as the character Stevie, the producer of CBS Morning News Show.
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Paul Scheer won a SAG Award for an Outstanding Performance by a Cast or Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
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In 2020, Paul Scheer returned to the cast of Veep along with other special guests, including Don Cheadle, Mark Hamill, Beanie Feldstein, Stephen Colbert, and Bryan Cranston in a live table read playing multiple roles to support turnout for the Georgia runoff elections.
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In 2018, Paul Scheer joined the Showtime pilot for Black Monday.
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Paul Scheer plays Keith, a closeted stockbroker who was originally scripted to die in the first season.
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Paul Scheer's performance was named in the Hollywood Reporter's "top 30 best supporting characters on TV" in 2019.
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Paul Scheer has appeared in recurring roles on 30 Rock, The Good Place, Future Man, I'm Sorry, and the Nick Jr.
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Paul Scheer had recurring animated series appearances on Star Trek: Lower Decks, Big City Greens, Big Mouth, and Adventure Time.
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Paul Scheer won the competition, but chose not to keep the $10,000 prize, and instead split it between the other two contestants.
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In 2016, in addition to executive producing Party Over Here, Paul Scheer created and directed segments for the late-night sketch comedy series with The Lonely Island.
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Paul Scheer co-created Filthy Preppy Teen$ with Curtis James Gwinn and Jon Stern.
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In each episode, Paul Scheer re-creates interviews from Arsenio Hall's original show, including the famous Bill Clinton episode, with Will Arnett playing Clinton.
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In 2014, Paul Scheer co-wrote and co-starred in multiple episodes of the Adult Swim mockumentary, The Greatest Event in Television History, detailing the recreation of famous television show openings.
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In 2015, Scheer launched a follow-up web series with JASH to Arscheerio Paul called, ScheeRL, which recreates interviews from MTV's Total Request Live hosted by Carson Daly, with Scheer playing the role of Daly and various comedians playing the musician guests.
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In 2016 Paul Scheer lent his voice to the first Vine animated series White Ninja as the titular character.
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In 2017 Paul Scheer produced and starred in Playdates, the first independent pilot to debut at Sundance Group, alongside Carla Gallo.
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In 2020, Paul Scheer started the FriendZone Channel on Twitch, where he and other comedians put on weekly shows.
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In 2018, Paul Scheer started Unspooled, a podcast dedicated to watching and discussing all 100 films on the American Film Institute's top movies of all time, with co-host Amy Nicholson.
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In 2021, Paul Scheer was involved with HBO Max's scripted podcast, Batman: The Audio Adventures.
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In 2014, Paul Scheer ventured into comics with writing partner Nick Giovannetti to create a 5-part Boom mini-series, ALIENS vs PARKER.
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In May 2024, Paul Scheer released his memoir "Joyful Recollections of Trauma," which quickly became a New York Times Bestseller for Hardcover Nonfiction.
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Paul Scheer combines dark anecdotes with self-deprecating humor, offering readers an engaging and uplifting narrative.
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In 2008, along with fellow comedians Rob Riggle, Horatio Sanz, and Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer completed four USO comedy shows for American troops in Iraq.
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In 2010, Paul Scheer organized a charity event with Ben Stiller called A Night of 140 Tweets, in which he got 140 comedians and actors to appear on stage at the UCB Theater in Los Angeles, each of them reading a single tweet.
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In 2019, Paul Scheer was arrested during Jane Fonda's Fire Drill Friday demonstration on the Capitol steps in Washington DC.
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Paul Scheer helped organize The Big 100, a program that asked Americans to take progressive actions in the 100 days following President Donald Trump's inauguration.
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On November 2,2022, Paul Scheer told Twitter followers that his mail-in ballot had not arrived and thanked nonpartisan voter advocate organization VoteRiders for letting him know what credentials he needed to vote in person.
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In 2023, Paul Scheer co-hosted "The Give Back-ular Spectacular," a live telethon-style fundraiser at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, which raised funds to support TV and film crew members affected by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
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Paul Scheer directed and starred in a public service announcement titled "Fake Happy" for Oklahoma's 988 Mental Health Lifeline during Super Bowl LVIII, emphasizing the importance of mental health awareness.
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In October 2009, Paul Scheer and Raphael married at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, where Paul Scheer's best man was a Jack Nicholson impersonator.
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Paul Scheer has frequently vacationed at Walt Disney World since childhood; in 2020, he said he had outgrown the reliance he had on the park when he was younger, but said that it remained "such a part of my life, for better or worse" and that he enjoyed visiting with his children.
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Paul Scheer is a fan of the Los Angeles Clippers, having begun following the team when he moved to Los Angeles from New York in 2006.