H. Jon Benjamin
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Henry Jon Benjamin known professionally as H. Jon Benjamin and Jon Benjamin, is an American
actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice-over roles as Jason and Coach McGuirk on Home Movies
, Ben on Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
, The Devil on Lucy, Daughter of the Devil and currently as the voice of Sterling Archer in FX's animated series Archer
and Bob Belcher in the Fox animated series Bob's Burgers
. His new Comedy Central
series Jon Benjamin Has a Van
began airing on June 14, 2011.
and graduated from Worcester Academy
in 1984.
where he was in a comedy duo with Sam Seder
, then a member of Cross Comedy, a comedy team led by David Cross
. For approximately the first seven years of his career, Benjamin almost exclusively worked in groups rather than independently. Afterwards, his independent work remained more experimental, rejecting traditional styles of stand-up comedy.
Benjamin's live projects include the Midnight Pajama Jam, a show performed in New York City with Jon Glaser
, and Tinkle, a show combining stand-up comedy and live music co-hosted by Todd Barry
and David Cross
. A Midnight Pajama Jam DVD is currently in production. He and Cross also appear together on Invite Them Up.
He was the guest on Space Ghost Coast to Coast
in its eighty-first episode "King Dead" on December 17, 1999 where Zorak
and Moltar kidnapped him. He has appeared in the television
show Cheap Seats
, on ESPN Classic
, as "Gene Stapleton" and "Rabbi Marc Shalowitz". He co-starred in Todd Barry
's short film Borrowing Saffron, and portrayed a talking can of vegetables with a shameful habit of autofellatio
in the film Wet Hot American Summer
. He also made short cameos in Not Another Teen Movie
as the football trainer and on the FX Network dramedy
Rescue Me
as the pimp
"F-bomb" in season two. He can also be seen in Turbocharge- the Unauthorized Story of the Cars, a comedy biopic about 80's rock band The Cars
, playing the role of Cars' manager Elliot Roberts
in his usual deadpan comedic delivery.
Benjamin has done extensive voice work in animated TV shows. His credits include starring roles in several Soup2Nuts
cartoon shows, such as Science Court
, Home Movies
, O'Grady
, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
, and Assy McGee
. He also co-created the show Freak Show
with his friend David Cross
. Benjamin also starred as the Devil and multiple other roles in Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
, which ran for one season on Adult Swim
beginning September 9, 2007. Benjamin also plays a recurring character on the PBS Kids
series WordGirl
, and is the announcer for The Sam Seder Show and the recently revived The Majority Report
. He also did the voice of "Shelly", Sam Seder's accountant, on Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder
.
Benjamin has made guest appearances in several animated shows. He was in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force
episodes "Bus of the Undead" and "The Last One" as Mothmonsterman, in "Broodwich" as Mr. Sticks, in "Bible Fruit" as Mortimer Mango, and played the live-action role of Master Shake
in "Last Last One Forever and Ever
", credited as Capt. Turd Mahoy. He also made a cameo appearance as a government agent in the film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters alongside frequent collaborator Jon Glaser
. He has appeared in Family Guy
as Carl, a movie trivia obsessed convenience store
clerk who also portrayed Yoda
in the Star Wars
parody episode "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
". Other notable recent appearances include The Venture Bros.
, in the episodes "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills," and "The Better Man," in which he played Dr. Orpheus's master – who appears in the form of Cerberus
, Catherine the Great's horse
) and, in "The Better Man", both Dr. Orpheus's ex-wife and a future Dean Venture, respectively. He also appeared in the Stella
short "Bar", which can be found as an easter egg
on the Season 1 DVD. Benjamin appeared on the Comedy Central
sketch/variety show Important Things with Demetri Martin
and had nearly as much screen time as Martin himself. In 2009 Benjamin, along with David Cross
, created and wrote for Paid Programming, a live action television pilot for Cartoon Network's
late night programing block, Adult Swim
. Paid Programming was not picked up for a full series, this was confirmed when Benjamin referred to it as an "abject failure".
Benjamin was featured in a Super Bowl XLIII
Bud Light commercial with Conan O'Brien
and was responsible for the McCain Girls videos on YouTube. He plays the voice of Sterling Archer, a secret agent in the FX series Archer
that first aired January 14, 2010. He has also appeared in several segments of the television show Human Giant
and had a cameo in the American Dad episode "License to Till" as a talking head of cabbage
.
Benjamin recently starred in the Comedy Central
series Jon Benjamin Has a Van
, which he co-created with comedian Leo Allen
. The series debuted on June 14, 2011; a total of 10 episodes aired, the last on August 10, 2011.
United States
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actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice-over roles as Jason and Coach McGuirk on Home Movies
Home Movies (TV series)
Home Movies is a dialogue-driven American animated series that originally aired from 1999 to 2004. The plot surrounds eight-year-old Brendon Small , who makes films with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time...
, Ben on Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999,–with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002–starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman...
, The Devil on Lucy, Daughter of the Devil and currently as the voice of Sterling Archer in FX's animated series Archer
Archer (TV series)
Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A preview of the series aired on September 17, 2009. The first season premiered on January 14, 2010. The show carries a TV-MA-LSV rating....
and Bob Belcher in the Fox animated series Bob's Burgers
Bob's Burgers
Bob's Burgers is an American animated television sitcom, which premiered on January 9, 2011 on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was created by Loren Bouchard and focuses on the Belcher family, who runs a hamburger restaurant. On April 7, 2011, Bob's Burgers was renewed for a second season...
. His new Comedy Central
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
series Jon Benjamin Has a Van
Jon Benjamin Has a Van
Jon Benjamin Has a Van is a live action television comedy series that premiered on June 14, 2011 on Comedy Central. The series stars Jon Benjamin as a reporter who tours around in a van to deliver uninteresting news to the viewers and to unsuspecting people while utilizing scripted scenes for...
began airing on June 14, 2011.
Early life
Benjamin was born in 1966 in Worcester, MassachusettsWorcester, Massachusetts
Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. Named after Worcester, England, as of the 2010 Census the city's population is 181,045, making it the second largest city in New England after Boston....
and graduated from Worcester Academy
Worcester Academy
Worcester Academy is an independent coeducational preparatory school spread over in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States. The school is divided into a middle school, serving approximately 150 students in grades six to eight, and an upper school, serving approximately 500 students in...
in 1984.
Career
His comedy career began at age twenty-four in BostonBoston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
where he was in a comedy duo with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
Samuel Lincoln "Sam" Seder is a comedian, writer, actor, film director, television producer-director, and talk radio host...
, then a member of Cross Comedy, a comedy team led by David Cross
David Cross
David Cross is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his work on HBO's sketch comedy series Mr...
. For approximately the first seven years of his career, Benjamin almost exclusively worked in groups rather than independently. Afterwards, his independent work remained more experimental, rejecting traditional styles of stand-up comedy.
Benjamin's live projects include the Midnight Pajama Jam, a show performed in New York City with Jon Glaser
Jon Glaser
Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Glaser is an American actor, comedian and television writer based out of New York City. A graduate of the University of Michigan where he performed in the sketch comedy troupes Comedy Company and Just Kidding with Jon Hein, he is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing...
, and Tinkle, a show combining stand-up comedy and live music co-hosted by Todd Barry
Todd Barry
-Biography:Barry was born in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in Florida. In 1999, his Comedy Central Presents aired. He wrote, directed and starred in the short film Borrowing Saffron , which co-starred H. Jon Benjamin. He has made a variety of guest appearances on shows like Dr...
and David Cross
David Cross
David Cross is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his work on HBO's sketch comedy series Mr...
. A Midnight Pajama Jam DVD is currently in production. He and Cross also appear together on Invite Them Up.
He was the guest on Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost Coast to Coast is an American animated parody talk show hosted by the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost. The show premiered on April 15, 1994 on Cartoon Network...
in its eighty-first episode "King Dead" on December 17, 1999 where Zorak
Zorak
Zorak is a fictional character who first appeared in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Space Ghost. Zorak appeared as a 7 foot tall green mantis and is a foe of the show's titular superhero.-Space Ghost:...
and Moltar kidnapped him. He has appeared in the television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
show Cheap Seats
Cheap Seats
Cheap Seats without Ron Parker, commonly shortened to Cheap Seats, is a television program broadcast on ESPN Classic hosted by brothers Randy and Jason Sklar...
, on ESPN Classic
ESPN Classic
ESPN Classic is a sports channel that features reruns of famous sporting events, sports documentaries, and sports themed movies. Such programs includes biographies of famous sports figures or a rerun of a famous World Series or Super Bowl, often with added commentary on the event...
, as "Gene Stapleton" and "Rabbi Marc Shalowitz". He co-starred in Todd Barry
Todd Barry
-Biography:Barry was born in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in Florida. In 1999, his Comedy Central Presents aired. He wrote, directed and starred in the short film Borrowing Saffron , which co-starred H. Jon Benjamin. He has made a variety of guest appearances on shows like Dr...
's short film Borrowing Saffron, and portrayed a talking can of vegetables with a shameful habit of autofellatio
Autofellatio
Autofellatio is the act of oral stimulation of one's own penis as a form of masturbation. It is physically possible for men who have sufficient flexibility, penis size or a combination of the two to perform autofellatio...
in the film Wet Hot American Summer
Wet Hot American Summer
Wet Hot American Summer is a 2001 satirical comedy film written by David Wain and Michael Showalter, and directed by Wain. The film takes place during the last day at a fictional Jewish summer camp in 1981, before closing for the summer...
. He also made short cameos in Not Another Teen Movie
Not Another Teen Movie
Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Joel Gallen, released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of teen movies which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades...
as the football trainer and on the FX Network dramedy
Comedy-drama
Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...
Rescue Me
Rescue Me (TV series)
Rescue Me is an American television drama series that premiered on the FX Network on July 21, 2004, and concluded on September 7, 2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters in the fictitious Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse.The show...
as the pimp
Pimp
A pimp is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The pimp may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing a location where she may engage clients...
"F-bomb" in season two. He can also be seen in Turbocharge- the Unauthorized Story of the Cars, a comedy biopic about 80's rock band The Cars
The Cars
The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...
, playing the role of Cars' manager Elliot Roberts
Elliot Roberts
Elliot Roberts is an American music manager, record executive, and philanthropist, best known for helping start the careers of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell....
in his usual deadpan comedic delivery.
Benjamin has done extensive voice work in animated TV shows. His credits include starring roles in several Soup2Nuts
Soup2Nuts
Soup2Nuts is an American animation studio founded by Tom Snyder, Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small, Jody Snider, and Amanda Normoyle. It is known for its animated comedy series...
cartoon shows, such as Science Court
Science Court
Science Court, an edutainment animated series from Tom Snyder Productions, aired on ABC's One Saturday Morning from 1997 to 2002. It was the closing show to Disney's One Saturday Morning as it aired at 11:30 am/12:30 pm...
, Home Movies
Home Movies (TV series)
Home Movies is a dialogue-driven American animated series that originally aired from 1999 to 2004. The plot surrounds eight-year-old Brendon Small , who makes films with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time...
, O'Grady
O'Grady
O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams and developed for TV by co-star Holly Schlesinger. It used to air on The N in the US, on MTV in Latin America, Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom and on 2x2 in Russia. It stars Melissa Bardin Galsky and H...
, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999,–with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002–starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman...
, and Assy McGee
Assy McGee
Assy McGee is an animated sitcom featuring police detective Assy McGee, a parody of tough-guy cops, who is literally a walking pair of buttocks. Along with his partner Don Sanchez , the trigger-happy McGee solves crimes in a fictionalized Exeter, New Hampshire. Larry Murphy voices all of the main...
. He also co-created the show Freak Show
Freak Show (TV series)
Freak Show is an animated television series on Comedy Central created and starring actors David Cross and H. Jon Benjamin.The show chronicles a freak show, called the Freak Squad, which reluctantly moonlights as a group of second-rate superheroes employed by the US government.The first and only...
with his friend David Cross
David Cross
David Cross is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his work on HBO's sketch comedy series Mr...
. Benjamin also starred as the Devil and multiple other roles in Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil
Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil is a computer-animated cartoon aired by Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim programming block. It was written & directed by Loren Bouchard, produced by Bouchard, Seth and Josh Piezas, and animated by Fluid Animation. It starred Melissa Bardin Galsky as Lucy,...
, which ran for one season on Adult Swim
Adult Swim
Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
beginning September 9, 2007. Benjamin also plays a recurring character on the PBS Kids
PBS Kids
PBS Kids is the brand for children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States founded in 1993. As with all PBS programming, PBS Kids programming is non-commercial. It is aimed at children ages 2 to 10...
series WordGirl
WordGirl
WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series for children aged 6-12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids...
, and is the announcer for The Sam Seder Show and the recently revived The Majority Report
The Majority Report
The Majority Report is a talk radio program originally on the Air America Radio network hosted by film actress/comedienne Janeane Garofalo, and actor/comedian Sam Seder, until Garofalo left in July 2006. Garofalo was reportedly originally asked by Air America to host the program and suggested Seder...
. He also did the voice of "Shelly", Sam Seder's accountant, on Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder
Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder
Formerly an online webcast, Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder was an hourlong webcast that aired weekdays at 3PM Eastern. Marc Maron and Sam Seder hosted the show from the actual break room at Air America Media in New York; the show was evocative of past shows done by Maron and Seder on the network...
.
Benjamin has made guest appearances in several animated shows. He was in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Aqua Teen Hunger Force , retitled Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 in 2011, is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network late night programing block, Adult Swim, as well as Teletoon's Teletoon at Night block and later G4 Canada's ADd block in Canada...
episodes "Bus of the Undead" and "The Last One" as Mothmonsterman, in "Broodwich" as Mr. Sticks, in "Bible Fruit" as Mortimer Mango, and played the live-action role of Master Shake
Master Shake
Master Shake is a fictional character on the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1, which was originally titled Aqua Teen Hunger Force since its premiere in 2000 until 2011...
in "Last Last One Forever and Ever
Last Last One Forever and Ever
"Last Last One Forever and Ever" is the tenth and final episode of the sixth season of the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force and the 88th episode of the series overall. It is a one-of-a-kind Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode because it is the only live-action episode. This episode features...
", credited as Capt. Turd Mahoy. He also made a cameo appearance as a government agent in the film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters alongside frequent collaborator Jon Glaser
Jon Glaser
Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Glaser is an American actor, comedian and television writer based out of New York City. A graduate of the University of Michigan where he performed in the sketch comedy troupes Comedy Company and Just Kidding with Jon Hein, he is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing...
. He has appeared in Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
as Carl, a movie trivia obsessed convenience store
Convenience store
A convenience store, corner store, corner shop, commonly called a bodega in Spanish-speaking areas of the United States, is a small store or shop in a built up area that stocks a range of everyday items such as groceries, toiletries, alcoholic and soft drinks, and may also offer money order and...
clerk who also portrayed Yoda
Yoda
Yoda is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, appearing in the second and third original films, as well as all three prequel trilogy films. A renowned Jedi master, Yoda made his first on-screen appearance in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back where he is responsible for...
in the Star Wars
Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
parody episode "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
Something, Something, Something, Dark Side
"Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" is the season finale of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy and part of the series's trilogy Laugh It Up, Fuzzball. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 23, 2010...
". Other notable recent appearances include The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros. is an American animated television series that premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on February 16, 2003. The series mixes action and comedy together while it chronicles the adventures of the Venture family: well-meaning but incompetent teenagers Hank and Dean Venture; their...
, in the episodes "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills," and "The Better Man," in which he played Dr. Orpheus's master – who appears in the form of Cerberus
Cerberus
Cerberus , or Kerberos, in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound which guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping...
, Catherine the Great's horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
) and, in "The Better Man", both Dr. Orpheus's ex-wife and a future Dean Venture, respectively. He also appeared in the Stella
Stella (TV series)
Stella was a short-lived television series that originally ran from June 28, 2005 to August 30, 2005 on the American television channel Comedy Central, created by and starring Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain, the three members of the sketch comedy troupe of the same name and...
short "Bar", which can be found as an easter egg
Easter egg (media)
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on the Season 1 DVD. Benjamin appeared on the Comedy Central
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
sketch/variety show Important Things with Demetri Martin
Important Things with Demetri Martin
Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the "important thing", such as timing, power, control and money. All sketches, short vignettes, animated segments and stand-up comedy...
and had nearly as much screen time as Martin himself. In 2009 Benjamin, along with David Cross
David Cross
David Cross is an American actor, writer and stand-up comedian perhaps best known for his work on HBO's sketch comedy series Mr...
, created and wrote for Paid Programming, a live action television pilot for Cartoon Network's
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
late night programing block, Adult Swim
Adult Swim
Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
. Paid Programming was not picked up for a full series, this was confirmed when Benjamin referred to it as an "abject failure".
Benjamin was featured in a Super Bowl XLIII
Super Bowl XLIII
Super Bowl XLIII was an American football game pitting the American Football Conference champion Pittsburgh Steelers against the National Football Conference champion Arizona Cardinals to decide the National Football League champion for the 2008 season. The game was played on February 1, 2009,...
Bud Light commercial with Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....
and was responsible for the McCain Girls videos on YouTube. He plays the voice of Sterling Archer, a secret agent in the FX series Archer
Archer (TV series)
Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A preview of the series aired on September 17, 2009. The first season premiered on January 14, 2010. The show carries a TV-MA-LSV rating....
that first aired January 14, 2010. He has also appeared in several segments of the television show Human Giant
Human Giant
Human Giant is a sketch comedy show on MTV, starring writer/performers Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and directed primarily by Jason Woliner.The show has completed two seasons. The status of a third season is unknown...
and had a cameo in the American Dad episode "License to Till" as a talking head of cabbage
Cabbage
Cabbage is a popular cultivar of the species Brassica oleracea Linne of the Family Brassicaceae and is a leafy green vegetable...
.
Benjamin recently starred in the Comedy Central
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
series Jon Benjamin Has a Van
Jon Benjamin Has a Van
Jon Benjamin Has a Van is a live action television comedy series that premiered on June 14, 2011 on Comedy Central. The series stars Jon Benjamin as a reporter who tours around in a van to deliver uninteresting news to the viewers and to unsuspecting people while utilizing scripted scenes for...
, which he co-created with comedian Leo Allen
Leo Allen
Leopold Rufus "Leo" Allen is an American stand-up comedian and writer from Detroit, Michigan, known as one half of the comedy team Slovin and Allen.- Career :Allen has been performing stand-up comedy since the late '90s...
. The series debuted on June 14, 2011; a total of 10 episodes aired, the last on August 10, 2011.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
| 2011 | Jon Benjamin Has a Van Jon Benjamin Has a Van Jon Benjamin Has a Van is a live action television comedy series that premiered on June 14, 2011 on Comedy Central. The series stars Jon Benjamin as a reporter who tours around in a van to deliver uninteresting news to the viewers and to unsuspecting people while utilizing scripted scenes for... |
Host | Star Creator Comedy Central series |
| 2011 | Soul Quest Overdrive | Mortimer | Co-Creator Co-Writer Voice only Adult Swim series |
| 2011–present | Bob's Burgers Bob's Burgers Bob's Burgers is an American animated television sitcom, which premiered on January 9, 2011 on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series was created by Loren Bouchard and focuses on the Belcher family, who runs a hamburger restaurant. On April 7, 2011, Bob's Burgers was renewed for a second season... |
Robert "Bob" Belcher | Voice Actor |
| 2009–2010 | Important Things with Demetri Martin Important Things with Demetri Martin Important Things with Demetri Martin is a sketch-variety show that aired on Comedy Central starring comedian Demetri Martin. Each episode examined a single theme, the "important thing", such as timing, power, control and money. All sketches, short vignettes, animated segments and stand-up comedy... |
Various characters | Writer Various characters Senior/Co-Producer Sketch comedy series |
| 2009–present | Archer Archer (TV series) Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A preview of the series aired on September 17, 2009. The first season premiered on January 14, 2010. The show carries a TV-MA-LSV rating.... |
Agent Sterling Archer | Voice only |
| 2009 | Aqua Teen Hunger Force Aqua Teen Hunger Force Aqua Teen Hunger Force , retitled Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 in 2011, is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network late night programing block, Adult Swim, as well as Teletoon's Teletoon at Night block and later G4 Canada's ADd block in Canada... |
Live-action Master Shake | Guest Appearance |
| Michael and Michael Have Issues | Larry | Guest Appearance | |
| Paid Programming | Creator | Failed pilot | |
| Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation Parks and Recreation is an American comedy television series on NBC that focuses on Leslie Knope , a mid-level bureaucrat in the parks department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, the series debuted on April 9, 2009; it has run for three seasons and... |
Scott Braddock | Guest Appearance | |
| Something, Something, Something, Dark Side Something, Something, Something, Dark Side "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side" is the season finale of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy and part of the series's trilogy Laugh It Up, Fuzzball. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on May 23, 2010... |
Yoda | Voice only | |
| Turbocharge: the Unauthorized Story of the Cars | Dance Instructor | Actor | |
| 2007–2008 | WordGirl WordGirl WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series for children aged 6-12, produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids... |
Various characters; Reginald | Voice only Animated series |
| Human Giant Human Giant Human Giant is a sketch comedy show on MTV, starring writer/performers Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer and directed primarily by Jason Woliner.The show has completed two seasons. The status of a third season is unknown... |
Various characters | Actor Writer Sketch comedy series |
|
| 2006–present | Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian... |
Carl | Voice only Animated series |
| 2006–2008 | Assy McGee Assy McGee Assy McGee is an animated sitcom featuring police detective Assy McGee, a parody of tough-guy cops, who is literally a walking pair of buttocks. Along with his partner Don Sanchez , the trigger-happy McGee solves crimes in a fictionalized Exeter, New Hampshire. Larry Murphy voices all of the main... |
The Mayor Various characters |
Voice actor Writer Consulting producer Animated series |
| 2007 | The Ten The Ten The Ten is a 2007 American comedy film, directed by David Wain and cowritten by Wain and Ken Marino, released through ThinkFilm. The film was released on August 3, 2007... |
Lying Rhyno | Voice Actor Film Film A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects... |
| 2007 | Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters | CIA Agent #1 | Voice only Animated film Credited as H. Jon Benjamin |
| 2006–2009 | The Venture Bros. The Venture Bros. The Venture Bros. is an American animated television series that premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on February 16, 2003. The series mixes action and comedy together while it chronicles the adventures of the Venture family: well-meaning but incompetent teenagers Hank and Dean Venture; their... |
The Master | Voice only Animated series Credited as H. Jon Benjamin |
| 2006 | Freak Show Freak Show (TV series) Freak Show is an animated television series on Comedy Central created and starring actors David Cross and H. Jon Benjamin.The show chronicles a freak show, called the Freak Squad, which reluctantly moonlights as a group of second-rate superheroes employed by the US government.The first and only... |
Tuck Various characters |
Creator Writer Executive producer Voice actor Animated series |
| 2005–2007 | Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil is a computer-animated cartoon aired by Cartoon Network as part of its Adult Swim programming block. It was written & directed by Loren Bouchard, produced by Bouchard, Seth and Josh Piezas, and animated by Fluid Animation. It starred Melissa Bardin Galsky as Lucy,... |
Satan Satan Satan , "the opposer", is the title of various entities, both human and divine, who challenge the faith of humans in the Hebrew Bible... Special Father #1 Various characters |
Voice actor Additional Material Creative Consultant |
| 2005 | Rescue Me Rescue Me (TV series) Rescue Me is an American television drama series that premiered on the FX Network on July 21, 2004, and concluded on September 7, 2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters in the fictitious Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse.The show... |
Gary | Actor TV series |
| 2004–2006 | Cheap Seats: Without Ron Parker | Rabbi Marc Shalowitz Gene Stapleton |
Actor TV series |
| 2004–2006 | O'Grady O'Grady O'Grady is an animated television show created by Tom Snyder and Carl Adams and developed for TV by co-star Holly Schlesinger. It used to air on The N in the US, on MTV in Latin America, Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom and on 2x2 in Russia. It stars Melissa Bardin Galsky and H... |
Kevin Harnisch Iris Philip |
Voice actor Animated series |
| 2004 | New York Minute New York Minute (film) New York Minute is a 2004 American teen comedy film starring Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen and Eugene Levy. It was directed by Dennie Gordon and released on May 7, 2004. In the film Mary-Kate and Ashley play twins with opposing personalities who have a series of misadventures around New York City... |
Vendor | Actor film |
| 2004 | Pilot Season Pilot Season (TV series) Pilot Season is a television miniseries written by Charles Fisher and Sam Seder and directed by Seder. It followed on from the 1997 film Who's the Caboose? and again had the character Susan Underman played by Sarah Silverman-Episodes:... |
Ken Fold | Actor TV miniseries |
| 2002 | Saddle Rash Saddle Rash Saddle Rash is a canceled comedy animated series. The pilot episode was featured on March 24, 2002 on Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming block. Saddle Rash was created by Loren Bouchard, co-creator of Home Movies... |
Gummy Tommy Morgan |
Voice actor Additional material TV Pilot |
| 2002 | Martin & Orloff Martin & Orloff Martin & Orloff is a feature film written by and starring Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts along with Ian's wife Katie Roberts. The film was produced and directed by Lawrence Blume and features an ensemble cast of alternative comedians including H... |
Keith | Actor film |
| 2002 | Not Another Teen Movie Not Another Teen Movie Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Joel Gallen, released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of teen movies which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades... |
Trainer | Actor film |
| 2001–present | Aqua Teen Hunger Force Aqua Teen Hunger Force Aqua Teen Hunger Force , retitled Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 in 2011, is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network late night programing block, Adult Swim, as well as Teletoon's Teletoon at Night block and later G4 Canada's ADd block in Canada... |
Mothmonster man Mr. Sticks Mortimer Mango Master Shake Master Shake Master Shake is a fictional character on the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1, which was originally titled Aqua Teen Hunger Force since its premiere in 2000 until 2011... (Live-Action episode Last Last One Forever and Ever "Last Last One Forever and Ever" is the tenth and final episode of the sixth season of the animated series Aqua Teen Hunger Force and the 88th episode of the series overall. It is a one-of-a-kind Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode because it is the only live-action episode. This episode features... ) |
Voice Actor Animated Series Credited as H. Jon Benjamin |
| 2001 | Wet Hot American Summer Wet Hot American Summer Wet Hot American Summer is a 2001 satirical comedy film written by David Wain and Michael Showalter, and directed by Wain. The film takes place during the last day at a fictional Jewish summer camp in 1981, before closing for the summer... |
Can of Vegetables | Actor Film |
| 2000 | Happy Accidents Happy Accidents Happy Accidents is a 2000 American film starring Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. The movie revolves around Ruby Weaver, a New York woman with a string of failed relationships, and Sam Deed, a man who claims to be from the year 2470... |
Reveler #1 | Actor film |
| 1999–2004 | Home Movies Home Movies (TV series) Home Movies is a dialogue-driven American animated series that originally aired from 1999 to 2004. The plot surrounds eight-year-old Brendon Small , who makes films with his friends Melissa Robbins and Jason Penopolis in his spare time... |
Coach John McGuirk Jason Penopolis Various characters |
Voice actor Writer Producer Animated series Credited as H. Jon Benjamin |
| 1999 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast Space Ghost Coast to Coast Space Ghost Coast to Coast is an American animated parody talk show hosted by the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost. The show premiered on April 15, 1994 on Cartoon Network... |
Himself | Guest TV Series |
| 1999 | The Dick & Paula Celebrity Special Dick and Paula Celebrity Special Dick and Paula Celebrity Special was a Soup2Nuts animated series that aired on FX from 1999 to 2000.The premise of the show was that Dick and Paula hosted a talk show where famous individuals, usually deceased, talked about their work or what made them widely known... |
Various characters | Voices actor Writer TV series |
| 1998 | Upright Citizens Brigade Upright Citizens Brigade The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The most recent incarnation consists of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh... |
Various characters | Voice only |
| 1998 | Sex and the City Sex and the City Sex and the City is an American television comedy-drama series created by Darren Star and produced by HBO. Broadcast from 1998 until 2004, the original run of the show had a total of ninety-four episodes... |
Jeff | Actor TV series |
| 1998–2000 | Late Night with Conan O' Brien | Foam Rubber Conan 7 Foot Bong |
Writer Late Night Talk show |
| 1997 | The Jenny McCarthy Show | Various characters | Actor Sketch comedy series |
| 1997 | Science Court Science Court Science Court, an edutainment animated series from Tom Snyder Productions, aired on ABC's One Saturday Morning from 1997 to 2002. It was the closing show to Disney's One Saturday Morning as it aired at 11:30 am/12:30 pm... |
Various characters | voice only Animated series |
| 1997 | Who's the Caboose? | Ken Fold | Actor (as Jon Benjamin) Film |
| 1995 | Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999,–with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002–starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman... |
Ben Various characters |
Voice Actor Writer Animated Series |
External links
- Interview from June 10, 2011 with SanDiego.com
- Jon Benjamin: Almost a rabbi That Other Paper
- Interview with Suicidegirls.com
- Interview with Kittenpants.orgKittenpantsKittenpants was an online humor magazine published monthly from 2000 to 2005 on Kittenpants.org. Kittenpants was founded by Darci Ratliff, who also wrote under the name Kittenpants for other publications, including the Comedy Central Insider...
- Ten Questions with H. Jon Benjamin
- Audio Interview with The Sound of Young AmericaThe Sound of Young AmericaThe Sound of Young America is a public radio program and podcast based in Los Angeles, California and distributed by Public Radio International...
public radio show - Interview from March 2007 from SXSW Festival
- H. Jon Benjamin talks "Archer" with StayFamous.Net