Michael Colton
Michael Colton (born 1975) is a screenwriter.[1] With John Aboud, he was a regular commentator on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows, including I Love the '80s.[2]
Personal life
Colton attended Newton North High School, where he wrote a humor column for the student newspaper.[3] He graduated from Harvard University, where he was an editor at both the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Crimson.[3]
He married lawyer and Harvard alum Carla Pereira on May 30, 2004.[4]
Career
Colton has co-written the movies A Futile and Stupid Gesture, [5]The Penguins of Madagascar and The Comebacks. They have also written for the television shows Allen Gregory, Sit Down, Shut Up, Childrens Hospital, Newsreaders, and Leverage.[1]
In the late 1990s, Colton was a journalist at The Washington Post.[6] He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Newsweek, The New York Observer, the Washington City Paper, Brill's Content, and McSweeney's.[1]
During the Writers Guild of America strike of 2007–2008, Colton and Aboud created the website AMPTP.com, a parody of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers' official website, AMPTP.org.[7][8]
From 2000 to 2003, Colton and Aboud ran Modern Humorist, an entertainment company based in Brooklyn, NY best known for its online magazine.[3][9]
Colton scored a 1600 on the SAT and was a contributor to an SAT guidebook entitled "Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT."[3]
Filmography
Television
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
2003 | VH1 Big in 03 | Consultant |
2004 | The Wrong Coast | Writer |
2004 | I Love the '90s | Himself/Panelist |
2005 | Last Laugh '05 | Consultant |
2005 | CMT: 20 Merriest Christmas Videos | Himself |
2005 | I Love the '90s: Part Deux | Himself |
2005 | I Love the '80s 3-D | Himself |
2005 | I Love the Holidays | Himself |
2006 | I Love Toys | Himself |
2006 | I Love the 70s: Volume 2 | Himself |
2008 | I Love the New Millennium | Himself |
2008 | Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins | Himself |
2009 | Sit Down, Shut Up | Executive Story Editor, Writer |
2009 | Black to the Future | Himself |
2009 | The Great Debate | Himself |
2009 | 100 Most Shocking Music Moments | Himself |
2010 | Leverage | Executive Story Editor, Writer |
2010 | A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweet-A-Thon for Haiti | Himself |
2010 | Undateable | Himself |
2011 | Allen Gregory | Writer, Co-Producer |
2014 | I Love the 2000s | Himself |
2014 | Newsreaders | Writer |
2015 | Childrens Hospital | Writer |
2016 | Zoolander: Super Model | Writer, Producer |
Movies
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
2007 | The Comebacks | Writer |
2014 | The Penguins of Madagascar | Writer |
2017 | A Futile and Stupid Gesture | Writer, Executive Producer |
References
- 1 2 3 "About Us". coltonaboud.com. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ↑ "Michael Colton". Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 "His job is a joke". The Boston Globe. October 19, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ↑ "WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Carla Pereira, Michael Colton". The New York Times. May 30, 2004. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/will-forte-star-as-national-875870
- ↑ "Michael Colton '97". Harvardwood. February 2008. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ↑ "Welcome To AMPTP.com (not AMPTP.org)". Deadline. December 10, 2007. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ↑ "amptp.net". Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Inside Modern Humorist with Co-Founders Michael Colton and John Aboud". Splitsider. April 28, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
External links
- Colton & Aboud homepage
- Modern Humorist
- A Moveable Feast: With Absolutely No Cash, A Reporter Gets Fed For A Week
- Michael Colton in the New York Times Magazine (Jan. 21, 2007)
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1685000/