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Brian Posehn (born 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 has had mainly small roles in TV shows, including the voice of Jim in Mission Hill and Del Swanson in 3 South. He appeared on an episode of Seinfeld, "The Burning", playing a patient, when 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 some episodes 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 portrayed a gas station attendant in Dumb and Dumberer, and delivered the manuscript in which Joey Tribbiani's soap opera character "Dr. Drake Ramoray" is killed off in an episode of Friends.

Posehn appeared in the 2003 movie Grind as a customer at Chili 'n Such, a fast food restaurant where the main characters work. He was also featured briefly as "himself" alongside Sarah Silverman and Laura Silverman in 2005's Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. He also played Jimmy Cracker, roadie for Banjo and Sullivan, in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects.

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

In 2006 his first album, LIVE in: Nerd Rage, was released by Relapse Records.

He will voice the character of Murray, a robot, in Rob Zombie's upcoming animated film, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.

Trivia

• He is 6'7", but refers to himself as 6'6.6" in his standup, calling himself "The Height of the Beast".
• He did the voice of Jim Kuback in the short lived WB animated series Mission Hill, who is designed after him.
• 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 "metal nerd" who also enjoys comic books.
• Posehn co-wrote the comic book Last Christmas published by Image Comics.
• Posehn's Just Shoot Me character was related to actor Ray Liotta, who guest starred as himself on the series.
• He was in the Anthrax video "What Doesn't Die".
• He wrote the song "Metal by Numbers", with Scott Ian of Anthrax. The song pokes fun at the last few years of the metal scene.
• Voiced Cousin Larry in the Disney animated series Kim Possible.
• Voiced one of the marines in Halo 2, along with comedian David Cross.
• On a 2006 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Posehn stated that he is often approached by fans who say "You're that one guy from that one show." The fans are usually talking about Just Shoot Me. An incident of this was also shown in The Comedians of Comedy.

External links

• BrianPosehn.com - his personal weblog
  • His biography
• Kittenpants.org interview
• Metal by Numbers parody music video on YouTube
• Audio interview on public radio show The Sound of Young America

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