Biography
Guy Branum is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for his work as the head writer and sketch performer on G4’s X-Play and as a regular panelist on E!’s Chelsea Lately.
Age
He is 48 years old as of 12 November 2023. He was born in 1975 in Yuba City, California, United States.
Family – Education
Branum was born and raised in Yuba City, California, by his Protestant father and Jewish mother. From 1994 to 1998, he attended the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in history and political science. He wrote a column for the Daily Californian, one of which drew the United States Secret Service to his apartment in November 1997, just before the Big Game between Berkeley and Stanford University.
The Associated Press misquoted parts of his article, implying that he suggested Berkeley students murder Stanford freshman Chelsea Clinton. He subsequently moved to Minnesota, where he attended the University of Minnesota Law School and competed on the school’s Quiz Bowl team, which finished third at CBI nationals in 1999. Following graduation, he returned to California.
Wife
He made his sexual orientation public while attending law school.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Career
Branum was hired as a writer for Unscrewed with Martin Sargent while show was still airing on TechTV in San Francisco, according to co-host Laura Swisher’s recommendation. On Unscrewed, he frequently appeared as a sweater model and The Ambassador of Gay. He also worked as a writer and producer for G4tv.com, as well as the lead writer for the G4 channel’s X-Play.
He has also contributed to the comedic podcast Weezy and the Swish. Branum began writing and performing comedy on Chelsea Lately in December 2007. He made his feature film debut in January 2011 with No Strings Attached. Branum joined W. Kamau Bell’s show Totally Biased as a writer in 2012, where he performed a recurrent section called “No More Mr. Nice Gay.”
He appeared on the eighth season of Last Comic Standing. Branum took part in the inaugural Portland Queer Comedy Festival in 2017. He hosted and executive produced TruTV’s Talk Show The Game Show, which was canceled in November 2018. He was a regular host of Pop Rocket, a podcast that dissects popular culture, on the Maximum Fun network until it was terminated in May 2019. Mindy Kaling wrote the foreword to his book My Life As A Goddess: A Memoir Through (Un)Popular Culture, which came out in 2018. He frequently appears on the podcasts Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! and Doug Loves Movies with Doug Benson. Branum’s debut comedy album, Effable, was published in 2015 via Aspecialthing Records.
Guy produced and hosted truTV’s Talk Show The Game Show, a talk show/game show mashup where comedians and celebrities compete for the title of “Best Guest of the Night.” He is a writer and co-executive producer for Mel Brooks’ upcoming variety show History of the World, Part II, alongside Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, and Ike Barinholtz. Guy has been working for a long time, so you’ve undoubtedly seen him on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Chelsea Lately, Conan, @Midnight, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration, Road to Roast, or Debate Wars. He also portrayed Natalie Portman’s sarcastic gay pal in the 2011 romance comedy No Strings Attached.
He’s an experienced TV writer who has written for a variety of shows, including Hacks, The Other Two, The Mindy Project, Punk’d, Awkward, Fashion Police, Q-Force, Connecting, and Billy on the Street. Guy’s memoir My Life As A Goddess, a compilation of essays characterized as “wickedly smart, funny, and witty” by Kirkus Reviews, was included on NPR’s 2018 Good Reads List and Entertainment Weekly’s Must List.
Guy has also written about culture and politics for Slate.com, Pitchfork, The New York Times, and Vulture. His now-defunct pop culture roundtable show Pop Rocket was named one of iTunes’ best new podcasts of 2015. Guy’s debut comedy album, Effable, peaked at number one on the iTunes and Billboard charts, and The New York Times described it as “a contender for the best comedy special of 2015.”