The H. Jon Benjamin Handbook - Everything you need to know about H. Jon Benjamin

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Henry Jon Benjamin (born May 23, 1966), known professionally as H. Jon Benjamin and Jon Benjamin, is an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice acting roles as Ben on Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Coach McGuirk and Jason on Home Movies, The Devil on Lucy, Daughter of the Devil and currently as the voice of Sterling Archer in FX's animated series Archer and Bob Belcher in the Fox animated series Bob's Burgers. His Comedy Central series Jon Benjamin Has a Van began airing on June 14, 2011.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about H. Jon Benjamin's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Contents, H. Jon Benjamin, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, Archer (TV series), Assy McGee, Bob's Burgers, David Cross, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Freak Show (TV series), Home Movies (TV series), Human Giant, Jon Benjamin Has a Van, Jon Glaser, Kittenpants, Last Last One Forever and Ever, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Loren Bouchard, Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil, Master Shake, Next Stop Wonderland, O'Grady, Paid Programming (TV pilot), Parks and Recreation, Saddle Rash, Science Court, Something, Something, Something, Dark Side, Sterling Archer, The Ten, Todd Barry, Worcester Academy, WordGirl 165…and more pages!

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 13 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781486464845
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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H. Jon Benjamin Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Archer (TV series) Assy McGee Bob's Burgers David Cross Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist Freak Show (TV series) Home Movies (TV series) Human Giant Jon Benjamin Has a Van Jon Glaser Kittenpants Last Last One Forever and Ever Late Night with Conan O'Brien Loren Bouchard Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil Master Shake Next Stop Wonderland O'Grady Paid Programming (TV pilot) Parks and Recreation Saddle Rash Science Court Something, Something, Something, Dark Side Sterling Archer The Ten Todd Barry Worcester Academy WordGirl

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H. Jon Benjamin

H. Jon Benjamin

Birth name

Born

Medium

Nationality

Years active

Influenced

H. Jon Benjamin

at San Diego Comic-Con International (July 2010)

Notable works and roles

Henry Jon Benjamin

May 23, 1966 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Film, stand-up, television

American

1991–present

Loren Bouchard

Ben inDr Katz, Professional Therapist Coach McGuirk/Jason inHome Movies Bob Belcher inBob's Burgers Carl inFamily Guy various Roles inFreak Show Ed inFred: The Show various Roles inImportant Things with Demetri Martin Sterling Archer inArcher The Master inThe Venture Brothers

[1] Henry Jon Benjamin(born May 23, 1966), known professionally asH. Jon BenjaminandJon Benjamin, is an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his voice acting roles as Ben onDr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Coach McGuirk and Jason onHome Movies, The Devil onLucy, Daughter of the Deviland currently as the voice of Sterling Archer in FX's animated seriesArcherand Bob Belcher in the Fox animated seriesBob's Burgers. His Comedy Central seriesJon Benjamin Has a Vanbegan airing on June 14, 2011.

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Early life [2] Benjamin was born in 1966 to a Jewish family in Worcester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Worcester [3] Academy in 1984.

Career Benjamin's comedy career began at age twenty-four in Boston where he was in a comedy duo with Sam Seder, then a member of Cross Comedy, a comedy team led by David Cross. For approximately the first seven years of his career, Benjamin almost exclusively worked in groups rather than independently. Afterwards, his independent work remained more experimental, rejecting traditional styles of stand-up comedy. Benjamin's live projects include theMidnight Pajama Jam, a show performed in New York City with Jon Glaser, andTinkle,a show combining stand-up comedy and live music co-hosted by Todd Barry and David Cross. A Midnight Pajama JamDVD is currently in production. He and Cross also appear together on Invite Them Up. He was the guest onSpace Ghost Coast to Coastin its eighty-first episode "King Dead" on December 17, 1999 where Zorak and Moltar kidnapped him. He has appeared in the television showCheap Seats, on ESPN Classic, as "Gene Stapleton" and "Rabbi Marc Shalowitz". He co-starred in Todd Barry's short filmBorrowing Saffron, and portrayed a talking can of vegetables with a shameful habit of autofellatio in the filmWet Hot American Summer. He also made short cameos inNot Another Teen Movieas the football trainer and on the FX Network comedy-drama Rescue Meas the pimp "F-bomb" in season two. He can also be seen inTurbocharge- the Unauthorized Story of the Cars, a comedy biopic about 80's rock band The Cars, playing the role of Cars' manager Elliot Roberts in his usual [4] deadpan comedic delivery. Benjamin has done extensive voice work in animated TV shows. His credits include starring roles in several Soup2Nuts cartoon shows, such asScience Court,Home Movies,O'Grady,Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, and Assy McGee. He also co-created the showFreak Showwith his friend David Cross. Benjamin also starred as the Devil and multiple other roles inLucy, the Daughter of the Devil, which ran for one season on Adult Swim beginning September 9, 2007. Benjamin also plays a recurring character on the PBS Kids seriesWordGirl, and is the announcer forThe Sam Seder Showand the recently revivedThe Majority Report.He also did the voice of "Shelly", Sam Seder's accountant, onBreakroom Live with Maron & Seder. Benjamin has made guest appearances in several animated shows. He was in theAqua Teen Hunger Forceepisodes "Bus of the Undead" and "The Last One" as Mothmonsterman, in "Broodwich" as Mr. Sticks, in "Bible Fruit" as Mortimer Mango, and played the live-action role of Master Shake in "Last Last One Forever and Ever", credited as Capt. Turd Mahoy. He also made a cameo appearance as a government agent in the filmAqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatersalongside frequent collaborator Jon Glaser. He has appeared inFamily Guyas Carl, a movie trivia obsessed convenience store clerk who also portrayed Yoda in theStar Warsparody episode "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side". Other notable recent appearances includeThe Venture Bros., in the episodes "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II," "I Know Why the Caged Bird Kills," and "The Better Man," in which he played Dr. Orpheus's master–who appears in the form of Cerberus, Catherine the Great's horse and, in "The Better Man", both Dr. Orpheus's ex-wife and a future Dean Venture, respectively. He also appeared in the Stellashort "Bar", which can be found as an easter egg on the Season 1 DVD. Benjamin appeared on the Comedy Central sketch/variety showImportant Things with Demetri Martinand had nearly as much screen time as Martin himself. In 2009 Benjamin, along with David Cross, created and wrote forPaid Programming, a live action television pilot for Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim.Paid Programmingwas not picked [5] up for a full series, this was confirmed when Benjamin referred to it as an "abject failure". [6] Benjamin was featured in a Super Bowl XLIII Bud Light commercial with Conan O'Brien and was responsible for [7] [8] the McCain Girls videos on YouTube. He voices Sterling Archer, a secret agent in the FX seriesArcherthat first [9] aired January 14, 2010. He has also appeared in several segments of the television showHuman Giantand had a

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Michael and Michael Have Issues

Mortimer

Lying Rhyno

CIA Agent #1

Role

Dick Maggotbone

2007

Soul Quest Overdrive

The Ten

H. Jon Benjamin

Guest Appearance

cameo in theAmerican Dadepisode "License to Till" as a talking head of cabbage. Benjamin recently starred in the Comedy Central seriesJon Benjamin Has a Van, which he co-created with [10] comedian Leo Allen. The series debuted on June 14, 2011; a total of 10 episodes aired, the last on August 10, 2011.

Title

The Mayor Various characters

Important Things with Demetri Martin

Carl

Various characters

2009–2010

2012

Ugly Americans

Year

2006–present

Archer

Human Giant

Bob's Burgers

2011–present

Selected filmography

2009–present

2011

Voice Actor Film

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

2006–2008

Family Guy

Assy McGee

Voice actor

Turbocharge: the Unauthorized Story of the Cars

Something, Something, Something, Dark Side

Parks and Recreation

WordGirl

2009

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Paid Programming

2007–2008

Robert "Bob" Belcher

Sterling Archer

Host

1 Episode "Mark Loves Dick"

Jon Benjamin Has a Van

Voice only Animated series

Yoda

Various characters

Creator

Scott Braddock

Various characters; Reginald

Dance Instructor

Live-action Master Shake

Larry

Actor Writer Sketch comedy series

Voice only Animated film Credited as H. Jon Benjamin

Voice actor Writer Consulting producer Animated series

Voice only Animated series

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Other notes

Voice Actor

Guest Appearance

Actor

Guest Appearance

Voice only

Failed pilot

Star Creator Comedy Central series

Writer Various characters Senior/Co-Producer Sketch comedy series

Co-Creator Co-Writer Voice only Adult Swim series

Not Another Teen Movie

2005

Rescue Me

Satan Special Father #1 Various characters

Kevin Harnisch Iris Philip

Vendor

Pilot Season

2001

Rabbi Marc Shalowitz Gene Stapleton

Martin & Orloff

New York Minute

O'Grady

Keith

Trainer

The Master

Mothmonster man Mr. Sticks Mortimer Mango Master Shake (Live-Action episode)

Can of Vegetables

Reveler #1

Tuck Various characters

Gummy Tommy Morgan

Gary

Ken Fold

Saddle Rash

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

2000

Happy Accidents

1999

Cheap Seats: Without Ron Parker

Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil

2004–2006

2005–2007

Actor film

Coach John McGuirk Jason Penopolis Various characters

Space Ghost Coast to Coast

Himself

The Dick & Paula Celebrity Special

2001–present

Actor film

2002

Actor film

2006–present

H. Jon Benjamin

The Venture Bros.

Freak Show

Various characters

2006

Voice actor Additional material TV Pilot

Actor Film

Voice actor Additional Material Creative Consultant

Actor film

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Creator Writer Executive producer Voice actor Animated series

Voice only Animated series Credited as H. Jon Benjamin

Voices actor Writer TV series

Actor TV series

Voice actor Animated series

Actor TV miniseries

Actor TV series

Voice Actor Animated Series Credited as H. Jon Benjamin

Home Movies

1999–2004

2004

Wet Hot American Summer

Voice actor Writer Producer Animated series Credited as H. Jon Benjamin

Guest TV Series

H. Jon Benjamin

1998

1998–2000

1997

1995–1999; 2002

References Notes

Upright Citizens Brigade

Sex and the City

Next Stop Wonderland

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Jenny McCarthy Show

Science Court

Who's the Caboose?

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

Various characters

Jeff

Eric

Foam Rubber Conan 7 Foot Bong

Various characters

Various characters

Ken Fold

Ben Various characters

Voice only

Actor TV series

Actor Film Credited as Jon Benjamin

Writer Late Night Talk show

Actor Sketch comedy series

voice only Animated series

Actor (as Jon Benjamin) Film

Voice Actor Writer Animated Series

[1] Lloyd, Robert; Critic, Television (June 19, 2011). "Critic's Notebook: Ears and eyes on Jon Benjamin" (http:/ /articles.latimes.com/2011/ jun/19/entertainment/la-ca-critics-notebook-jon-benjamin-20110619).Los Angeles Times. . [2] http://rocknrollghost.com/2010/03/18/h-jon-benjamin-talks-fxs-archer-season-finale [3] "Class Notes" (http://www.worcesteracademy-digital.com/worcesteracademy/spring2011?pg=31#pg31)The [Worcester Academy] Hilltopper(Spring 2011) p.28 [4] "Welcome to TURBOCHARGE The Movie" (http:/ /turbochargethemovie.com). Turbochargethemovie.com. . Retrieved 2010-07-26. [5] Heisler, Steve (4 February 2011). "Random Roles H. Jon Benjamin" (http:/ /www.avclub.com/articles/h-jon-benjamin,51327/). The A.V. Club. . Retrieved 5 February 2011. [6] "Super Bowl 43 ad: Budweiser Bud Light - Conan O'brien 'Vroom Vroom Party Starter'" (http:/ /www.youtube.com/ comment_servlet?all_comments&v=INauC_lrHCo&fromurl=/watch?v=INauC_lrHCo) (Video).YouTube.com. . Retrieved 2009-02-15. [7] "McCaingirls's Channel" (http:/ /youtube.com/user/mccaingirls).YouTube.com. 2008-03-14. . Retrieved 2009-02-15. [8] "Just because" (http://samsedershow.com/node/2889).SamSederShow.com. . Retrieved 2009-02-15. [9] "Archer reviews at" (http://www.metacritic.com/tv/shows/archer). Metacritic.com. . Retrieved 2010-07-26. [10] "Interview with Jon Benjamin" (http:/ /www.sandiego.com/comedy/ jon-benjamin-talks-comic-con-bob-s-burgers-and-his-comedy-central-van). SanDiego.com. . Retrieved 2011-06-09.

External links  H. Jon Benjamin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm71304/) at the Internet Movie Database  Interview from June 10, 2011 with SanDiego.com (http://www.sandiego.com/comedy/ jon-benjamin-talks-comic-con-bob-s-burgers-and-his-comedy-central-van)  Jon Benjamin: Almost a rabbi (http://thatotherpaper.com/austin/jon_benjamin_almost_a_rabbi)That Other Paper  Interview with Suicidegirls.com (http://suicidegirls.com/words/H.+Jon+Benjamin/)  Interview (http://www.kittenpants.org/25_bk/jonb.asp) with Kittenpants.org  Ten Questions with H. Jon Benjamin (http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/566/566927p1.html)  Audio Interview (http://media.libsyn.com/media/tsoya/jonbenjamin.mp3) with The Sound of Young America public radio show

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Interview from March 2007 from SXSW Festival (http://benkharakh.com/jon_benjamin) H. Jon Benjamin talks "Archer" with StayFamous.Net (http://www.stayfamous.net/2010/03/ h-jon-benjamin-talks-archer.html)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

Theatrical release poster by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo Directed byMatt Maiellaro Dave Willis

Produced by

Written by

Based on

Starring

Editing by

Studio

Distributed by

Release date(s)

Running time

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Language

Budget

Box office

Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis Jay Edwards

Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis

Aqua Teen Hunger Forceby Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro

Dana Snyder Carey Means Dave Willis Andy Merrill Mike Schatz Matt Maiellaro C. Martin Croker

John Brestan Ned Hastings Phil Samson

Radical Axis [adult swim films] Williams Street

First Look Pictures (original) Warner Bros. (current)

April 13, 2007

86 min.

United States

English

[1] $752,630

[1] $5,520,368

[2] Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatersis an American flash animated semi-canonical comedy film based on the Adult Swim animated seriesAqua Teen Hunger Force. The film was written and directed by the show's creators, Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, and was released on April 13, 2007 by First Look Pictures. The [3] film's poster was illustrated by Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo, and parodies the "King of the Mountain" design.Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatersis notable for marking the first time an Adult Swim original series was made into a movie. In the film poster, the movie credits are filled with "blah's"

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

This movie made its official television debut on March 30, 2008 on Adult Swim. Movie Film for Theaters was rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)

Plot The movie begins with a song by a virtual unusual band—consisting of a bag of popcorn, a hot dog, a chocolate Popsicle and a cup of soda—in a parody of the 1953 short filmLet's All Go to the Lobby, only to be interrupted by heavy metal band Mastodon—animated as a gum drop, a pretzel, a box of Ice Caps, and a box of nachos—who warn the audience that bad movie etiquette will result in severe bodily harm or death. The movie proper begins in Egypt, where Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad escape from the Sphinx (who is sipping on a soda), and are attacked by an oversized Poodle who kills Frylock before being destroyed by Shake. Shake and Meatwad flee with Frylock's corpse and meet Time Lincoln, who revives Frylock; however, when government agents break into his house, the Aqua Teens flee in his wooden rocket ship, and Time Lincoln is shot, changing the timeline and effectively resulting in white people being enslaved by black people. This, however, is all revealed to be an elaborate story concocted by Shake to explain their origin to Meatwad and Frylock. An animated music video then follows. Shake heads off to work out on his new exercise machine, the Insanoflex. Upon discovering that the machine is not assembled correctly (and the instructions are nowhere to be found), Frylock searches online for them. He finds a website written in a rare robot dialect with the only words in English warning not to assemble it...ever. The site then lists a phone number which Frylock calls. The film cuts to outer space on board the Plutonians Emory and Oglethorpe's ship. Before they even bother to answer the phone (the number on Frylock's computer was theirs), the Plutonians discover the Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future on board with them. The Cybernetic Ghost begins explaining to the two aliens the story of the Insanoflex: the machine, when assembled, will exercise a man into a super-being, who will attract all the women on Earth leading to massive inbreeding and the eventual extinction of mankind. To prevent this, the Ghost has traveled into the past and stolen a single screw that holds all the parts together. The Plutonians point out to him that to get it assembled, someone could just buy another screw or shove a pencil in the screw hole. Back on Earth, Frylock finishes building the machine (somehow having obtained the instructions), having just shoved a pencil in the screw hole. Before Shake can work out however, they discover a missing M-shaped circuit board on the back panel. The trio visit Carl, from whom Shake had stolen the machine, to see if he has the missing piece. After he refuses to tell them, Meatwad finds the address in the Insanoflex's box. Meanwhile, a triangular slice of watermelon named "Walter Melon", is flying about in a space ship made from a hollowed-out watermelon, observing the events unfolding according to his plan–Walter Melon is joined in the ship by Neil Peart from Rush, sitting at his drums. Dr. Weird, whose abandoned insane asylum has been purchased and is being turned into condominiums around them, is visited by Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad, who retrieve the missing piece and head home. Frylock installs the missing circuit board, but Carl insists that as the rightful owner he should be the first to test out the machine. The machine straps him in and elaborately transforms itself into a huge one-eyed robot. The robot plays dance/techno music and begins stomping around, crushing houses and heading toward downtown Philadelphia, all while Carl's strapped-in form is forced to exercise. Eventually, the robot begins laying large metallic eggs, which hatch into smaller versions of the machine. The Aqua Teens, aided by an instructional workout video, find a way to destroy the machine. Meatwad gets MC Pee Pants (who is now a fly) to help, but he is hit with a flyswatter by Shake while giving a demonstration. With little time, the Aqua Teens have no choice but to have Shake play a new song with his guitar. Shake plays his original song "Nude Love" on acoustic guitar, forcing the machine to commit suicide because Shake's song is so bad. Carl (now bulging with so much muscle that he is rendered unable to move) leaves with his date, a muscular woman named Linda, and they head back to her condo while the Aqua Teens try to figure out a way to stop the newly-hatched smaller robots from destroying the city.

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