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Date of Birth
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12-May-1970
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Place of Birth
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Dallas
(United States of America, Texas, Area code 469, Area code 972, Area codes 214, 469, and 972, Dallas County)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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BJ Porter, Comedy Deathray
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Profession
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Actor, Screenwriter, Television producer, Comedian, Film Producer, Film director, Television Director
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B. J. Porter is an actor, writer and comedian. Porter began his career writing and performing on the HBO sketch comedy program, Mr. Show. Porter, along with the rest of the Mr. Show writing staff, was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999.
Currently, Porter is a Supervising Producer and writer on the new Fox animated series Bordertown. Prior to that, he was a Co-Executive Producer and writer on the HBO series The Life and Times of Tim, a writer for NTSF:SD:SUV on Adult Swim and the head writer for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards show, hosted by Aziz Ansari. Porter has created pilots for Showtime, USA, Fox, NBC and Comedy Central.
Porter performed as the comedy duo "The Fun Bunch" with frequent comedy partner Scott Aukerman. Porter and Aukerman also created the long-running live, weekly alternative comedy show Comedy Death-Ray, hosted at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles. In 2007, Porter and Aukerman created and produced a sketch show pilot for Fox titled The Right Now! Show. One of the sketches from this pilot, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis was put up on the website Funny Or Die and became incredibly popular immediately. Thus, the series was launched.
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