Brian Posehn

Brian Posehn (born July 6, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, musician, and writer.

He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School in 1984.

He attended college at California State University, Sacramento.

He was able to begin his career after meeting Bob Odenkirk and David Cross in San Francisco, therefore some have attributed that the foundation of his comedy career commenced in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Posehn began with guest appearances and mainly small roles in TV shows.

After numerous appearances as a television guest star, Posehn acquired his first major recurring role in HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998).

He is known for his roles as Jim Kuback on The WB's Mission Hill and Brian Spukowski on Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program.

Posehn had a recurring role on The Big Bang Theory as geologist Bert Kibbler.

As a stand-up comedian, Posehn has released four comedy albums and one standalone music album.

He was on 28 episodes of Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995–1998), a sketch comedy series on HBO.

In a 1996 episode of Friends, he delivered the manuscript in which Joey Tribbiani's soap opera character "Dr. Drake Ramoray" is killed.

He appeared as two different characters in NewsRadio: a fan with questions for Jimmy James at a book reading (1997), and a member of Dave's a cappella group "Chock Full o' Notes" (1998).

Posehn received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards in 1998 and 1999 for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program for his work on Mr. Show with Bob and David, which he shared with the series' writing crew.

In the Seinfeld episode "The Burning" (1998), he played a patient, when Kramer "was given" gonorrhea.

His character was instructed to "act out" to a group of medical students how a surgeon left a sponge in him post surgery.

Posehn also wrote the Space Ghost: Coast to Coast episode "Cahill" (1998) with Ben Karlin.

He appeared on 29 episodes of the NBC series Just Shoot Me! (1999–2003).

He played the voice of Jim in Mission Hill on the WB (1999–2002), and Del Swanson in 3 South on MTV (2002–2003).

In 2002, Posehn appeared on Comedy Central Presents, followed by the release of 2005's The Comedians of Comedy, a documentary/live special chronicling a 2004 small-club comedy tour he participated in.

The film was followed up by a television series on Comedy Central of the same name.

Posehn also received a nomination for a DVDX Award for Best Original Song in a DVD Premiere Movie in 2003 for Run Ronnie Run!.

Posehn was born and raised in Sacramento, California.

He is of German and Irish descent.

On an Adult Swim production, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, he voiced the Wisdom Cube in the 2003 episode "The Cubing".

Film appearances from Posehn include the 2003 comedy film sequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, Grind, the 2005 Rob Zombie horror film The Devil's Rejects, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and the 2007 animated feature Surf's Up, where he played Glen Maverick.

Posehn performed the voice of Gibbons, a tiny man, on several episodes of the Cartoon Network's Tom Goes to the Mayor (2005–2006).

He also appeared in the 2005 pilot for The Showbiz Show with David Spade, in a segment called "The Nerd Perspective", in which he gave a scathing criticism of MTV and its declining quality.

He also played a mortician in several episodes of Comedy Central's Reno 911!.

He was featured on the 2005 documentary series The Comedians of Comedy on Comedy Central and Showtime.

He was in a 2007 episode of the improv series Thank God You're Here on NBC and was a celebrity judge on the revived 1970s game show The Gong Show with Dave Attell (2008), on Comedy Central.

He co-stars on The Sarah Silverman Program with Steve Agee as a gay couple who is friends with Silverman, and also wrote the season three finale "Wowschwitz".

In 2007 he joined the first season of the MTV sketch comedy series Human Giant, as a writer and performer, and voices Glen Furlblam, the biggest fan of Dr. Two-Brains on the PBS Kids animated series WordGirl.

Posehn appeared as himself in the 2007 documentary Super High Me starring 'marijuana comedian' Doug Benson, the 2008 documentary Nerdcore Rising about MC Frontalot and in a supporting role in Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic.

Posehn voices the character of Murray, a robot, in Rob Zombie's animated The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.

He also voiced the character Hayashi in the English dub of Pom Poko.

He played himself in the episode "Spagett" of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, appeared at the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget, played the role of a physically disabled man (Scooter Man) in the second season's premiere episode "Slip of the Tongue" of Californication (2008), on Showtime, and played Dethklok's second manager in the Metalocalypse episode "Dethsources", he also wrote the episode "Fatherklok".

He has hosted the online Dungeons & Dragons podcast Nerd Poker since 2012.

He has also done voice work for video games such as Halo 2, FusionFall, Brütal Legend, and Minecraft: Story Mode.

In 2012 he co-wrote the fourth season of Metalocalypse.

From 2013 to 2019, Posehn portrayed the recurring character Bert on The Big Bang Theory.