About me
Guy Branum is the creator and host of truTV’s "Talk Show The Game Show," a hilarious mashup of two beloved television formats that pits comedians and celebrities against each other for the title of “Best Guest of the Night.” He just wrapped filming and co-producing the Universal rom-com "BROS" with Billy Eichner and is currently writing on the new Mel Brooks variety series "History of the World, Part II" alongside Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, and Ike Barinholtz. His recently published book "My Life As A Goddess" is a collection of side-splitting and illuminating essays and was quoted as being “Wickedly smart, funny and witty” by Kirkus Reviews and recently made NPR’s 2018 Good Reads List and Entertainment Weekly’s Must List.
You may also know him from his recurring segment “No More Mr. Nice Gay” on "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell", serving as “Staff Homosexual” on "Chelsea Lately" and his performance as Natalie Portman’s sassy gay friend in the feature film "No Strings Attached" Noticing a trend? Guy has also appeared on "Conan", "@Midnight", "The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore", "The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail", "Road to Roast" and "Debate Wars".
As a TV writer, Guy was a Co-EP on the Netflix animated project "Q-Force" and the live-action pandemic NBC comedy "Connecting", and he was a supervising producer on Comedy Central’s hit show "The Other Two". He spent three seasons writing for Hulu’s "The Mindy Project" and was a producer during the show’s last season. Other TV writing credits include "A League of Their Own" from Amazon, "Punk’d" and "Awkward" on MTV, "Another Period" on Comedy Central, "Billy on the Street" on truTV and "Fashion Police" on E!
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