Christian Finnegan

Fletcher Christian Finnegan born April 1 1973 better known as Christian Finnegan is an American standup comedian writer and actor based in New York City Finnegan was born in Albany New York He grew up in Acton Massachusetts and attended The Walnut Hill School a boardingday high school focused on programs in the performing visual and creative arts and located in Natick Massachusetts Christian is perhaps best known as one of the original panelists on VH1s Best Week Ever and as Chad the only white roommate in the Mad Real World sketch on Comedy Centrals Chappelles Show He can currently be seen as cohost of Black and White a series airing on AE which he created and executive produces He also costars in the TBS series Are We There Yet He also cohosted Zest TVs web travel show CustomNATION and his own musiccentric podcast Audio Spackle which debuted on Cave Comedy Radio in January 2013 Finnegan has been a fixture on Comedy Central having starred in his own halfhour special Premium Blend one hour stand up special Au Contraire as well as Comedy Central Presents Christian Finnegan and countless network interstitials He served as a writer for Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn on which he also appeared as a guest Finnegans stand up was also featured in Comedy Centrals animated series Shorties Watchin Shorties Additional television appearances as himself or performing stand up have included Conan The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Would You Ratherwith Graham Norton Good Afternoon America and multiple times on The Today Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann and on Historys I Love the 1880s He hosted TV Lands game show Game Time As an actor Finnegan portrayed the supporting role of Carl in the film Eden Court a ticket agent in Knight and Day and several guest roles including a talk show host on The Good Wife In October 2006 Finnegans debut stand up comedy CD titled Two For Flinching was released by Comedy Central Records with a followup national tour of college campuses from January to April 2007 Au Contraire was released by Warner Bros Records in 2009 His third special The Fun Part was filmed at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston on April 4 2013 and debuted on Netflix on April 15 2014 On December 31 2014 Finnegan appeared on Ken Reids TV Guidance Counselor Podcast On July 27 2016 he and comedian Sherrod Small began to cohost Black and White a comedytalk show on AE that takes a humorous look at race relations in America From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia