Brian Stack Biography
Brian Stack is an actor, comedian, and writer from the United States most known for his sketch comedy performances. He appeared on all three late-night talk shows hosted by Conan O’Brien, including Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on NBC, and Conan on TBS. Stack left Conan in April 2015 to join the writing crew of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
How old is Stack? Age
Brian is 40 years old as of August 18 2024. He was born in 1964 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Stack Wife – Children
Stack is married to Miriam Tolan, a Second City alum, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre regular, and former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She has also appeared in the film The Heat and on shows such as 30 Rock, The League, At Home with Amy Sedaris, and Jon Glaser Loves Gear. The couple was married in 1996 and had a kid.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Stack left Conan and went back to New York to pursue a position on the writing team of the CBS show Late Show after fellow Second City graduate Stephen Colbert replaced David Letterman as the show’s host. On the show, he provides the voices of God, “Cartoon Donald Trump,” and “The Ghost of Abraham Lincoln.”
Stack Late Night with Conan O’Brien
In 1997, Stack began working as a sketch writer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where he also acted. The first sketch Stack wrote for the show was the first iteration of the running gag “Andy’s Little Sister, Stacy,” in which Stack’s former Chicago improv colleague Amy Poehler played the 13-year-old younger sibling of O’Brien’s sidekick, Andy Richter, whose unrequited crush on O’Brien manifests in a range of emotion that runs “from adorable bashfulness to volcanic, homicidal rage.”
Stack made his first appearance onscreen when one of the authors asked him to portray a doctor in a sketch with no lines. One of the earliest roles he played on the show was Bathtime Bob the Hygiene Cowboy, who sang about bath time, but, like many of Stack’s characters, he had a dark, sad underbelly to his cheery personality. Stack had previously attempted to develop this character at Second City, but it was never included in any shows.
Stack performed numerous recurring roles on the show, most notably those dressed in anachronistic or ornate costumes, and he was recognized for portraying many characters with long beards and mustaches, including God, Zeus, Socrates, Gandalf, Dumbledore, and The Interrupter. Jeff Loveness of Jimmy Kimmel Live noticed of Stack’s characters that there was “such a sadness to each character, but they would not acknowledge their sadness,” which Stack concurs with. Stack remained with O’Brien after he moved to The Tonight Show in 2009, making sporadic cameos, such as when he portrayed an NRA spokesman who threatens murder to achieve his goals.
Brian Career
Stack began his career in humor as a member of the Chicago improv comedy troupe The Second City, where he performed with other comedians like Amy Poehler. Starring in the 1997 film Spaceman as “Special Agent in Charge” was Stack. In the NBC sitcom 30 Rock episodes “Jack Meets Dennis,” “Succession,” and “Larry King,” Stack portrayed Howard Jorgensen. In 2006, Stack co-starred in the Comedy Central cartoon comedy Freak Show as “The World’s Tallest Nebraskan”.
The American version of The Office aired its 100th episode, “Company Picnic,” on May 14, 2009; Stack played Mark, an employee of the Buffalo office who gets upset when he finds out the branch is closing. Stack played a cop in the FOX sitcom New Girl’s second season episode “First Date” on April 4, 2013. That same year, he played Ted on the television sitcom Parks and Recreation, a character he continued to play in 2014. On October 13, 2013, Stack played Don in the tenth season of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, episode “Piranha Germs”. On July 26, 2015, he appeared as Mappy the Map in the season eleven episode “Knapsack!”
On May 15, 2014, Stack participated in a sketch called “Tear Down” in “Craig Robinson Wears a Bordeaux Button Down & Dark Jeans”, the second episode of the third season of Comedy. Bang, Bang! Stack frequently appears in the ASSSSCAT improvisational comedy performance at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City and Los Angeles.
He voiced a number of characters in the computer games Deer Avenger (1998) and Deer Avenger 2: Deer in the City (1999), written by Stack’s fellow Late Night writer/actor Brian McCann and starring McCann, Tina Fey, Jon Glaser, and Amy Poehler.
Stack appeared as “Whiskers” in “Western Day,” the debut episode of Robert Smigel’s TV series TV Funhouse, which aired on December 6, 2000. In 2012, Stack voiced the Airplane Pilot in Hotel Transylvania. Stack played the CEO on the web comedy Talking Tom and Friends.