Nicholas Rutherford is an American actor, comedian, writer, and founding member of the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor. He is best known for starring as
Patient 88 in the
Adult Swim
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series ''
Dream Corp LLC'' and for his work as a writer and producer on ''
Rick and Morty
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''. He has also contributed as a writer for ''
Saturday Night Live
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''.
Early life
Rutherford is from
Thousand Oaks, California
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. He attended college at the
University of Southern California
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, where he performed in the school's
improv
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*Improvisation, an act of spontaneous invention
**Improvisational theatre (includes improvisational comedy)
**Musical improvisation
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and
sketch comedy
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group, Commedus Interruptus.
Career
In 2007, Rutherford formed the sketch comedy group Good Neighbor alongside
Kyle Mooney
Kyle James Kozub Mooney (born September 4, 1984) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director.
Mooney was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2013 to 2022. In 2017, he co-wrote and starr ...
,
Beck Bennett
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, and
Dave McCary. In 2014, Rutherford joined the writing staff for
season 40 of ''
Saturday Night Live
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''.
On April 30, 2014, he appeared as a guest on the web series ''
Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey''. From 2016 to 2020, Rutherford starred in the Adult Swim series ''
Dream Corp, LLC'', on which he also contributed as a writer. In 2015, he worked as a voice actor and writer on the
Fox
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Twelve species ...
animated series ''
Golan the Insatiable
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'', penning the fourth season episode, "Shell Raiser."
Since 2019, Rutherford has served as a writer and co-executive producer on ''
Rick and Morty
''Rick and Morty'' is an American Adult animation, adult animated science fiction Animated sitcom, sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadvent ...
''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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1982 births
American male television actors
American male voice actors
American male comedians
People from Thousand Oaks, California
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Living people
American television writers
American male television writers
Comedians from California
21st-century American comedians