Eric Moneypenny is an American

United States

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 comedian and writer.

Moneypenny is currently a writer and performer for The Midnight Show

The Midnight Show

The Midnight Show is a Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group which performs monthly at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Founded in 2008, the show owes its notoriety not only to production of several viral internet videos on Funny or Die and YouTube The Midnight Show is a Los Angeles-based...

 (TMS), a popular monthly sketch comedy

Sketch comedy

A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...

 showcase at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, which has been called "a hot spot to watch simmering talent boil over into commercial success." Some TMS performers are now writers for Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a live American late-night television sketch comedy and variety show developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title of NBC's Saturday Night.The show's sketches often parody contemporary American culture...

and NBC's Community

Community (TV series)

Community is an American television comedy series created by Dan Harmon that airs on NBC. The series is about a group of students at a community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado. The series heavily uses meta-humor and pop culture references, often parodying film and television...

. With TMS, Moneypenny has worked with some of the top comedians in the business, such as Fred Willard

Fred Willard

Fred Willard is an American actor, comedian, and voice over actor, best known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is known for his roles in the Christopher Guest mockumentary films This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and For Your Consideration as well as...

, Andy Richter

Andy Richter

Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter is an American actor, writer, comedian, and late night talk show announcer. He is best known for his role as the sidekick of Conan O'Brien on each of the host's programs: Late Night and The Tonight Show on NBC, and Conan on TBS...

, The Whitest Kids U'Know, Steve Agee

Steve Agee

Steve Agee is an American actor and comedian, best known for his supporting role as Steve Myron on the Comedy Central series The Sarah Silverman Program....

, Ian Roberts

Ian Roberts (actor)

Ian Michael Roberts is an American actor, comedian and writer best known as a founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy troupe.-Life and career:...

, Matt Walsh, Drew Carey

Drew Carey

Drew Allison Carey is an American actor, singer, comedian, photographer, sports executive, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as...

, Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins

Paul Francis Tompkins , best known as Paul F. Tompkins, is an American actor and comedian.-Life and career:Tompkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a receptionist mother and railway worker father. He started out in stand-up comedy in 1986 at The Comedy Works, Philadelphia, PA, where he...

, Jerry Minor

Jerry Minor

Jerry C. Minor is an American actor, comedian and writer known for his comedic roles in numerous television programs such as Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, Delocated, Crossballs, Carpoolers and Lucky Louie....

, Paul Scheer

Paul Scheer

Paul Christian Scheer is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He co-created and starred in MTV's sketch comedy series Human Giant and currently co-stars as Andre on the FX comedy The League. He also currently stars as Trent Hauser on the Adult Swim show NTSF:SD:SUV:: which he created...

, Jerry O'Connell

Jerry O'Connell

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Connell is an American actor, best known for his roles in the TV series Sliders, Andrew Clements in My Secret Identity, Vern Tessio in the film Stand by Me, Charlie Carbone in Kangaroo Jack, and Detective Woody Hoyt on the drama Crossing Jordan...

, Michaela Watkins

Michaela Watkins

Michaela Suzanne Watkins is an American comic actress, best known for her various roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, a regular performer with The Groundlings in Los Angeles, her recurring role as "Lucy" in the sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine, and for her supporting role as...

, and many more.

Videos he's written or co-written for TMS have appeared on SportsIllustrated.com, USAToday.com, Comedy Central

Comedy Central

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 Insider, and The Huffington Post

The Huffington Post

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. He's also written humor columns for FOXSports.com ('04–'07), and commercials co-produced by FunnyOrDie.com & TMS for clients such as Hyatt Hotels and CARFAX. Before joining TMS, he was in the sketch group WPSA, performing at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre

The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre or UCB Theatre is an improvisational theatre and associated UCB Training Center with locations in Chelsea, New York, the EEast Village, New York and Hollywood, California.....

 and I.O. West

I.O. West

The iO WEST, is the Los Angeles branch of the iO in Chicago. The theater is located at 6366 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California. In addition to presenting improv and sketch comedy shows every night, the iO West has improv training classes and is the home for the Los Angeles Improv Comedy...

. In college, Moneypenny was Contributing Editor for Ohio University's humor magazine "The Shaft", Head Writer for school-produced TV comedy shows "Fridays Live" and "Wits End", and was a National Semifinalist in Comedy Central's Laugh Riots stand-up competition.

Along with writing and performing in The Midnight Show, Moneypenny also teaches a course in Sketch Comedy Writing in Hollywood, California.

External links

• http://ericmoneypenny.tumblr.com//Tumblr
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• Sketch Writing Workshop page
• TMS UCB page
• TMS Funny or Die page
• TMS YouTube page
• http://themidnightshowblog.tumblr.com/TMS Tumblr
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