Montclair Film Festival · CC BY 2.0

Built a durable comedy career across sketch, sitcom, and film — a founding member of the influential troupe The State, and a lead in Wet Hot American Summer and its sequel series. Before any of that, in the late 1990s, he was the puppeteer and voice behind the Pets.com sock puppet, one of the most recognized advertising mascots of the dot-com era. He has since written a run of books, several for children.