Michael Colton

Michael Colton born 1975 is a an American screenwriter producer comedian and former journalist Colton was a staff writer for the Washington Post Style section and has also written for the New York Times Magazine the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe  While a senior at Newton North High School in Newton Massachusetts he cowrote the SAT guide Up Your Score He graduated in 1997 from Harvard University where he was an editor at both the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Crimson Before moving to Los Angeles Colton and Aboud founded and ran Modern Humorist 20002003 an awardwinning online magazine and comedy collective based in Brooklyn In addition to a daily magazine Modern Humorist published three books with Crown Publishing including the bestselling My First Presidentiary A Scrapbook by George W Bush Modern Humorist also helped develop ad campaigns for Microsoft Time Warner Cable and Amazon For most of the 00s Colton and Aboud appeared regularly as panelists on Best Week Ever and other VH1 shows They also appeared on I Love the 70s80s90s00s etc They have been panelists separately and together on CNN Fox News ABC News CMT NPR The Today Show and the DVD releases of Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place During the Writers Guild of America strike of 20078 Colton and Aboud created AMPTPcom a parody of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers official website AMPTPorg He is half of the writing and production team Colton Aboud their production cards are designed like record album covers and can also be seen on their website They were executive producers on the HBO Max show Close Enough for seasons two and three We wrote for Comedy Centrals The Fake News with Ted Nelms which won a 2019 Writers Guild Award for Best Variety Special Other credits include the DreamWorks Animation film Penguins of Madagascar TNTs Leverage Adult Swims Childrens Hospital and Newsreaders and Foxs animated shows Allen Gregory and Sit Down Shut Up Colton and Aboud wrote and produced A Futile and Stupid Gesture a biopic about Doug Kenney and the origins of the National Lampoon They wrote and produced an animated Zoolander series thats streaming on Paramount cowrote the film The Comebacks and have written pilots and specials for ABC CBS NBC Fox Comedy Central TBS VH1 and Adult Swim Their writing has also appeared in Esquire Cosmopolitan Fortune New York and Time They are the creators and showrunners of ABCs Home Economics which debuted in April 2021