Paul Scheer Biography

Paul Christian Scheer (born January 31, 1976) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, director, and podcaster.

Scheer is most known as a star of the FX series The League and as the co-creator and one of the stars of the cult MTV sketch series Human Giant alongside Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari, and Jason Woliner, as well as the Adult Swim comedy-action-parody series NTSF:SD:SUV::. He also co-hosts the popular film discussion podcast How Did This Get Made? alongside Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael and recurs on the ABC comedy Fresh Off the Boat.

Early life

Scheer was born in Huntington, New York. He graduated from St. Anthony's High School (New York) and attended New York University, where he majored in Communication and Education.

Career

Television

Human Giant

Around the summer of 2005, Scheer began collaborating with fellow comedians Rob Huebel and Aziz Ansari as well as director Jason Woliner to make short films. The first video created by the group was 'Shutterbugs, about Huebel and Ansari as cut-throat child talent agents. This was followed by the sketch Illusionators, which starred Ansari and Scheer as Criss Angel-style goth magicians. In mid-2006, MTV gave the green light for a sketch series from the group, called Human Giant, which debuted April 5, 2007.

The League

The League is a sitcom, which premiered on FX on October 29, 2009 and ran for seven seasons. The series is a semi-scripted comedy from Jeff and Jackie Marcus Schaffer about a group of friends in a fantasy football league. Scheer plays Dr. Andre Nowzick, a rich plastic surgeon whose naivete makes him the butt of many jokes. Scheer has co-scripted a handful of episodes: "The Anniversary Party", "Expert Witness", "Sober Buddy", "The Out of Towner" and "Tailgate" with co-star Nick Kroll as well as the episodes "Bringer Show" and "The Block".

NTSF:SD:SUV::

NTSF:SD:SUV:: is a live action 15 minute action television show parody, which premiered on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on July 21, 2011, for a 12 episode order and ran for over forty episodes. The series was created by Scheer, who also served as executive producer, writer, director, and star. It is produced by Abominable Pictures, Inc. and Scheer's 2nd Man on the Moon Productions.

Yo Gabba Gabba

Paul Scheer and Jack McBrayer made semi-regular appearances on the Nick Jr. series Yo Gabba Gabba!, during a segment called "Knock Knock Joke of the Day". Scheer and McBrayer were featured as themselves in the Yo Gabba Gabba! comic book, and made appearances on the Yo Gabba Gabba! live tour. In 2012, Scheer appeared as a villainous Cowboy Android in an episode of The Aquabats! Super Show!, another series from the creators of Yo Gabba Gabba!

Other projects

In 2006, Variety named Scheer one of the "Top 10 Comics to Watch" and Alternative Press hailed him as one of their favorite comedians.

Scheer and Jonathan Stern are executive producers on the Hulu comedy series The Hotwives, currently in production for season two. Scheer also co-stars in the series.

In 2016 Paul joined with the Lonely Island to create the Fox late night sketch comedy series Party Over Here.

Scheer also co-created the Fullscreen series Filthy Preppy Teen$ with Curtis James Gwinn and Jon Stern.

Podcasting

How Did This Get Made? is a podcast on Earwolf hosted by Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas. Each episode has a celebrity guest/comedian and features the deconstruction and mockery of terrible films. In 2011, iTunes selected How Did this Get Made? as its favorite comedy podcast of the year. In 2012, LA Weekly named the show "The Best Comedy Podcast". Guests have included Kevin Smith, Damon Lindelof, "Weird" Al Yankovic, Danny Trejo, Vanilla Ice, Adam Scott, Nick Kroll, Rob Corddry, Rob Huebel, Doug Benson, Brian Taylor, Lexi Alexander, Greg Sestero, and Amy Schumer.

Scheer also is a co-founder of Wolfpop, which was a sister network of the Earwolf podcast network and has since merged with Earwolf.

Web

In 2013, upon the return of The Arsenio Hall Show, Scheer launched a web series for JASH called The ArScheerio Paul Show. In each episode, Scheer re-creates interviews from Arsenio Hall's original show, including the famous Bill Clinton episode, with Will Arnett playing Clinton. Scheer sports a comically enlarged flat-top haircut to resemble Hall.

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.

In 2016 Scheer lent his voice to the first Vine animated series White Ninja as the titular character.

Comics

Scheer ventured into comics with writing partner Nick Giovannetti to create a 5-part Boom mini-series, ALIENS vs. PARKER.

Scheer and Giovanetti continued their collaboration with Marvel Comics where they penned Deadpool Bi-Annual #1 and a Guardians Team Up, which were released September 2014 and 2015.

Live performances

In 1995, Scheer became a member of New York City's longest running Off-Broadway comedy show, Chicago City Limits. As a member of their touring company, Scheer extensively traveled throughout the United States as well as overseas.

In 1998, he joined the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City where he performed Sketch and Improvisation with Respecto Montalban, winners of the 2003 ECNY Award for "Best Improv Show". The group included Rob Riggle, Rob Huebel, Jack McBrayer and Dannah Feinglass. They performed their brand of long-form improvisation to sold out crowds every Saturday night for over five years and collaborated with Adam McKay on a political sketch comedy show called George Bush is a Motherfucker.

In 2002, 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".

Scheer moved to Los Angeles in 2006 and is a regular performer at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles (UCBTLA). He performs an improvised show based on audience members' Facebook profiles called FACEBOOK. The show was named the "Best Improv Show" by Los Angeles magazine and has been profiled on Good Morning America. Cast members include Jack McBrayer, Rob Riggle and Rob Huebel.

Scheer co-hosts Crash Test with Human Giant alumnus Rob Huebel. Los Angeles called the show "Extremely funny ... Several thumbs up" and MetroMix said, "Sketch comedy doesn't get much funnier." He also occasionally performs in a two-person improv show, Scheer/McBrayer with Jack McBrayer. He recently released his first comedy special based on this show.

In 2010, 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. The performers included Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Aziz Ansari, the cast of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dane Cook, Wilmer Valderrama, John Cho, Mindy Kaling, and Sasha Grey. The event, released as a charity DVD and online download, raised over $500,000 dollars for Haiti.

Personal life

Scheer lives in Los Angeles and is married to actress-writer June Diane Raphael. They first met in January 2004, after the artistic director of Manhattan's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre brought Scheer in to offer tips to Raphael and her comedy partner Casey Wilson on making improvements to their UCB two-woman sketch show, and started dating shortly afterwards. They moved from New York to Los Angeles in 2005. In October 2009, Scheer and Raphael married at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Scheer's best man was a Jack Nicholson impersonator. Their son was born on April 30, 2014. In March 2016, the couple announced that they were expecting their second child. In August 2016 Paul and June had their second child, his name is Zardaz.

In September 2015 Scheer said he practices Transcendental Meditation to calm down and be more creative.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story	Lenny Pear
2006	School for Scoundrels	Little Pete
2007	Watching the Detectives	Annoying Customer
	Slice	Tucker Taylor	Short Film
2008	The Onion Movie	Bates Computer Salesman Dirk
	Meet Dave	Lieutenant Kneecap
2009	Bride Wars	Ricky Coo
	The Smallest Co%k in Porn	Ryan French	Video Short
	Year One	Bricklayer
2010	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story	Club MC	Video Short
	Piranha 3D	Andrew
2011	The Valet	The Valet	Video Short
2012	Piranha 3DD	Andrew
2013	Hell Baby	Ron
	Ass Backwards	Strip Club Owner
	Escape from Planet Earth	Cameraman	Voice
	Rapture-Palooza	Security Wraith
	OJ: The Musical	Dr. Love
2014	Jason Nash Is Married	Bill Morrison
	Repeat Stuff	Agent	Video Short
2015	Hell & Back	Paul the Demon	Voice
	Daddy's Home	The Whip
2016	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Wolf Handler
	The Masterpiece	Raphael Smadja	Filming
2017	A Futile and Stupid Gesture	Paul Shaffer	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998-2000	Upright Citizens Brigade	Multiple Roles	6 episodes
2001	Burly TV	Various	Episode: "Impostor"
2004	Crossballs: The Debate Show	Additional Characters
2005-2007	Shutterbugs	Sugarplums Agent / Nasim	4 episodes
2006	Starveillance	Ashton Kutcher	Pilot episode
2007	Raines	Motel Clerk	Pilot episode
2007-2008	Human Giant	Paul / Various	21 episodes
	30 Rock	Donny Lawson	2 episodes
2008	10 Items or Less	Francis	Episode: "The Bromance"
2009	Reno 911!	Various	3 episodes
	Parks and Recreation	Keef Slertner	Episode: "Kaboom"
2009-2015	The League	Andre	84 episodes
2010	The Sarah Silverman Program	Producer	Episode: "A Slip Slope"
	Players	Tony Maroni	Episode: "Krista's Mom"
	Party Down	Joel Munt	Episode: "Joel Munt's Big Deal Party"
	Pretend Time	Dr. Bruce	Episode: "Monday Morning Meltdown"
2010-2011	Funny or Die Presents	Barry / Lionel	6 episodes
2010-2016	Childrens Hospital	Sir Tinkle Button	4 episodes
2011	Traffic Light	Glenn G.	Episode: "No Good Deed"
	The Problem Solverz	Tony Marv (voice)	Episode: "Funny Facez"
2011-2012	Happy Endings	Avi	2 episodes
2011-2013	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Trent Hauser	39 episodes
2012	The Life & Times of Tim	Mitch (voice)	Episode: "Strip Club Hostage Situation/Game Night"
	The Aquabats! Super Show!	The Cowboy Android Sheriff	Episode: "Cowboy Android!"
	Bob's Burgers	Larry (voice)	Episode: "Food Truckin'"
	Electric City	Walter LaFong (voice)	21 episodes
	Modern Family	Store Manager	Episode: "When a Tree Falls"
	Tron: Uprising	Hopper (voice)	5 episodes
2012-2013	Burning Love	Robby Z / Kip	8 episodes
	The Greatest Event in Television History	Trace Goron / Protester	3 episodes
2012-2015	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Various	3 episodes
2013	Whitney	Phillip	Episode: "Alex, Meet Lily"
	The ArScheerio Paul Show	ArScheerio Paul	9 episodes
	The Arsenio Hall Show	ArScheerio Paul	1 episode
	Clear History	Dinner Friend	TV movie
2013-2015	Adventure Time	Toronto / Bath Boy Gang Leader (voice)	4 episodes
2014	Next Time on Lonny	Gun Store Clerk	Episode: "Lonny's Best Friend"
	The Hotwives of Orlando	Matty Green	7 episodes
	Gravity Falls	Gary (voice)	Episode: "Soos and the Real Girl"
	The Birthday Boys	Mayor	Episode: "Snobs and Slobs"
2014-2015	Drunk History	Colonel Henry Ludington/Carl Sagan	2 episodes
2015	Kroll Show	Marc XYZ	Episode: "Gigolo H-O-R-S-E"
	Scheer-RL	Carson Daly	7 episodes
	Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp	Dave	2 episodes
	Regular Show	Cat Masterson (voice)	Episode: "Cat Videos"
	The Hotwives of Las Vegas	Vance Storm / Matty Green	7 episodes
	Crash Test: With Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer	Paul	TV movie, also writer and producer
2015-2016	Fresh Off the Boat	Mitch	19 episodes
2016	Animals.	White Horse (voice)	Episode: "Rats."
	Once Upon a Time	The Scarecrow (voice)	Episode: "Our Decay"
	Party Over Here	Chris Harrison	2 episodes
	Bajillion Dollar Propertie$	Reverend Coyne	Episode: "Happy Ending"
	Grace and Frankie	Kyle	Episode: "The Loophole"