Benji Aflalo

It was during his high school years that Benji Aflalo made his screen debut with the pilot episode of the sitcom Raising Dad The WB 200102 though it wouldnt be until after graduating college in 2006 that he went on to properly begin his career in show business Following graduation Aflalo started as a standup comedian and began accruing work as a professional comedy writer Some of Aflalos earliest writing credits include The Burn with Jeff Ross Comedy Central 201213 The Comedy Central Roast of James Franco Comedy Central 2013 and The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber Comedy Central 2015 Around the same time Aflalo cowrote and costarred in the comedic short film Alone Together 2015 with Esther Povitsky about a mismatched pair of young adults traversing the world together Two years after the shorts production it would go on to inspire a halfhour comedy series Aflalo and Povitsky were once again cast as leads in Alone Together Freeform 2018 which was this time produced by Andy Samberg and his Lonely Island colleagues Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone